Rakuten, Inc.

Shinichiro Tosa

Soh Masuko

Shigaku Iwabuchi

Jiro Tanaka

Provided is a goods information providing system, including: a first position acquisition section () for acquiring from a position information DB () position information on goods specified by a shelf ID read by a reading unit (); a related goods extraction section () for extracting from a related goods information DB () a related goods related to the goods specified by the shelf ID; a second position acquisition section () for acquiring from the position information DB () position information on the extracted related goods; a recommended goods determination section () for determining, as recommended goods, from among the extracted related goods, the related goods selected based on a position of the goods acquired by the first position acquisition section () and a position of the related goods acquired by the second position acquisition section (); and an informing unit () for informing of information on the determined recommended goods.

Goods information providing system, apparatus, method and information storage medium

The goods and services purchase supporting apparatus includes an identification information acquiring unit () to acquire an image of a medium on which a marker indicative of identification information of goods or services is presented, the medium being presented to a customer in association with the goods or the services, and acquire the identification information from the marker represented on the acquired image of the medium, a discount information acquiring unit () to acquire, from a storing unit () to store discount information applicable to the goods or the services in association with the identification information of the goods or the services, the discount information that is associated with the identification information acquired by the identification information acquiring unit, and an arranging unit () to arrange display information, which is based on the discount information acquired by the discount information acquiring unit, with the image of the medium.

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Ichikawa, Japan

Shinichiro Tosa