Image storing managing apparatus and method for retreiving and displaying merchandise and customer specific sales information
First Claim
1. An image storage managing apparatus comprising:
- customer data storage means for storing various types of customer information including customer image data relating to individual customers;
merchandise data storage means for storing various types of merchandise information including merchandise image data relating to individual items of merchandise;
sales data storage means for storing customer-merchandise link data for each individual customer, said customer-merchandise link data indicating individual items of merchandise purchased by said individual customer; and
customer-merchandise retrieving means for retrieving customer information relating to a specific customer and merchandise information relating to individual items of merchandise purchased by said specific customer from said customer data storage means and said merchandise data storage means, respectively, based on said customer-merchandise link data stored in said sales data storage means, and for displaying said retrieved customer information and merchandise information, including respective customer image data and merchandise image data.
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Abstract
A customer and merchandise image data are picked up by an image generator and are stored in a customer data storage section and a merchandise data storage section in a data storage section together with link data and key data about each customer and each merchandise. Sales data of a merchandise for each customer is stored in a sales data storage section. In accordance with an instruction from an instruction input section, a processor searches the customer data and merchandise data storage sections and displays one of data about a specific customer and data about a specific merchandise with an image on a display, or retrieves data about a specific customer and data about each merchandise purchased by this customer from the customer data and merchandise data storage sections based on the sales data stored in the sales data storage section and displays those data with images on the display in association with each other.
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24 Claims
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1. An image storage managing apparatus comprising:
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customer data storage means for storing various types of customer information including customer image data relating to individual customers; merchandise data storage means for storing various types of merchandise information including merchandise image data relating to individual items of merchandise; sales data storage means for storing customer-merchandise link data for each individual customer, said customer-merchandise link data indicating individual items of merchandise purchased by said individual customer; and customer-merchandise retrieving means for retrieving customer information relating to a specific customer and merchandise information relating to individual items of merchandise purchased by said specific customer from said customer data storage means and said merchandise data storage means, respectively, based on said customer-merchandise link data stored in said sales data storage means, and for displaying said retrieved customer information and merchandise information, including respective customer image data and merchandise image data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 21, 22)
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11. An image storage managing method comprising the steps of:
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storing various types of customer information including customer image data relating to individual customers in a customer data storage means; storing various types of merchandise information including merchandise image data relating to individual items of merchandise in a merchandise data storage means; storing customer-merchandise link data for each individual customer in a sales data storage means, said customer-merchandise link data indicating individual items of merchandise purchased by said individual customer; retrieving customer information relating to a specific customer and merchandise information relating to individual items of merchandise purchased by said specific customer from said customer data storage means and said merchandise data storage means, respectively, based on said customer-merchandise link data stored in said sales data storage means; and displaying said retrieved customer information and merchandise information including respective customer image data and merchandise image data. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 23, 24)
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