Patent ID: 7669761

Claim:
A sales shop system which is connected to an imaging apparatus that captures a face image of a customer visiting a sales shop as biometric-image information and supports a transaction of a commodity in said sales shop, said sales shop comprising: a first storage device which associates the face image of the customer of said commodity with merchandise information on the merchandise of the customer that is associated with identification information for identifying the customer and stores the face image as biometric-image information and the merchandise information; a first information processing apparatus which outputs merchandise information on merchandise in accordance with an operation made by the customer who visits said sales shop and inputs the face image of the customer; a second storage device which associates the face image inputted on said first storage device with said merchandise image and stores the face image as biometric-image information and the merchandise image; a second information processing apparatus which inputs the face image of said customer as biometric-image information and, when the identification information for identifying said customer is inputted, receives the input of the identification information; and a sales shop apparatus which: receives said face image that is inputted on said second information processing apparatus and, when the input of said identification information is available, searches said first storage device for merchandise information that is associated with the identification information; when the input of said identification information is not available, compares said face image received and the face image that is stored in said first storage device, and searches said first storage device for related merchandise information if the face image that corresponds to the face image received is stored in said first storage device, or searches said second storage device for related merchandise information if the face image is not stored in said first storage device; and outputs the merchandise information thus found.