Information provision system, information provision method, and storage medium

An information provision method comprising:

• storing, by a processor and for each of a plurality of articles distributed to an authentication target, feature information in which a feature of the article is associated with device information of a notification device;
• authenticating, by the processor, an authentication target using an image obtained by imaging the authentication target, the authentication target holding one of the plurality of articles in the image;
• acquiring, by the processor, the device information associated with the one of the plurality of articles held by the authentication target in the image, based on the feature information for the one of the plurality of articles held by the authentication target in the image;
• determining, by the processor, a transmission destination of information regarding a result of the authentication to notify the authentication target of the result of the authentication according to information regarding the authentication target or a situation of the authentication target, the transmission destination including the notification device indicated by the device information associated with the one of the plurality of articles held by the authentication target in the image;
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• transmitting, by the processor, the information to the determined transmission destination, including instructing the notification device indicated by the device notification associated with the one of the plurality of articles held by the authentication target in the image to issue a notification of the information regarding the result of the authentication.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that is executable by a computer to perform:

• storing for each of a plurality of articles distributed to an authentication target, feature information in which a feature of the article is associated with device information of a notification device;
• authenticating an authentication target using an image obtained by imaging the authentication target, the authentication target holding one of the plurality of articles in the image;
• acquiring the device information associated with the one of the plurality of articles held by the authentication target in the image, based on the feature information for the one of the plurality of articles held by the authentication target in the image;
• determining a transmission destination of information regarding a result of the authentication to notify the authentication target of the result of the authentication according to information regarding the authentication target or a situation of the authentication target, the transmission destination including the notification device indicated by the device information associated with the one of the plurality of articles held by the authentication target in the image;
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• transmitting the information to the determined transmission destination, including instructing the notification device indicated by the device notification associated with the one of the plurality of articles held by the authentication target in the image to issue a notification of the information regarding the result of the authentication.