Patent ID: 7204414

Claim:
An image generation system that generates an image including a use state of at least one commodity offered at a shop, the image generation system comprising: a contactless communication medium corresponding to the commodity, a data communications device and an image generation device, wherein the contactless communication medium is equipped with image information storage means for storing image information of the commodity, and image information transmission means for transmitting the image information of the commodity to the data communications device when the data communications device approaches, the data communications device is equipped with image information reception means for receiving the image information of the commodity transmitted from the contactless communication medium, and image information output means for outputting the received image information of the commodity to the image generation device, and the image generation device is equipped with image generation means for generating an image including the use state of the commodity based on the image information of the commodity outputted from the data communications device, and image display means for displaying the image including the use state of the commodity generated.