Store apparatus, store system, image acquisition method and program

A store system, comprising:

• a display including a display surface used as a placement surface of a product;
• an image capturing apparatus that generates an image in which a product placed on the display surface of the display is captured;
• image acquisition unit that acquires the image generated by the image capturing apparatus;
• mode switching unit that switches between a product registration mode for registering a product to be purchased by a customer and an image collection mode for collecting a learning image of a discriminator for identifying a product;
• product registration unit that registers, during the product registration mode, a product identified by the discriminator, based on the image, as a product to be purchased;
• display control unit that displays, during the image collection mode, a predetermined background image on the display surface of the display;
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• image collection unit that stores, in a predetermined storage apparatus, an image in which the background image and the product are captured, as the learning image.

An image acquisition method executed by a computer comprising:

• acquiring, from an image capturing apparatus, an image in which a product placed on a display surface of a display is captured;
• switching between a product registration mode for registering a product to be purchased by a customer and an image collection mode for collecting a learning image of a discriminator for identifying a product;
• registering, during the product registration mode, a product identified by the discriminator, based on the image, as a product to be purchased;
• displaying, during the image collection mode, a predetermined background image on the display surface of the display;
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• storing, in a predetermined storage apparatus, an image in which the background image and the product are captured, as the learning image.