Purchasing assistance device, purchasing assistance method, and recording medium
AssigneeMitsubishi Electric Corporation
InventorsYusuke TASHIRO, Keisuke SAITO
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Abstract
A purchase assistance device includes an input information acquirer to acquire requirement information that indicates a requirement desired for a refrigerator by a user planning to purchase the refrigerator, a refrigerator information acquirer to acquire first refrigerator information about a first refrigerator currently used by the user and second refrigerator information about a second refrigerator that satisfies the requirement indicated by the requirement information, and a comparison screen generator to generate, based on the first refrigerator information and the second refrigerator information, a screen for visual comparison between the first refrigerator and the second refrigerator.
Claims11
A purchase assistance device, comprising:
- circuitry configured to generate a plurality of question screens for presenting questions about a refrigerator to a user planning to purchase the refrigerator in an order dedicated to refrigerators:
- acquire requirement information that indicates a requirement desired for a refrigerator by the user based on answers that the user inputs on the plurality of question screens;
- acquire first refrigerator information about a first refrigerator currently used by the user and second refrigerator information about a second refrigerator that satisfies the requirement indicated by the requirement information;
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- generate, based on the first refrigerator information and the second refrigerator information, a screen for visual comparison between the first refrigerator and the second refrigerator.
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A purchase assistance method, comprising:
- generating a plurality of question screens for presenting questions about a refrigerator to a user planning to purchase the refrigerator in an order dedicated to refrigerators;
- acquiring a requirement desired for the refrigerator by the user based on answers that the user inputs on the plurality of question screens;
- acquiring first refrigerator information about a first refrigerator currently used by the user, and second refrigerator information about a second refrigerator that satisfies the acquired requirement;
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- displaying a screen for visual comparison between the first refrigerator and the second refrigerator, based on the first refrigerator information and the second refrigerator information.
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program, the program causing a computer to function as:
- requirement information acquisition means for acquiring requirement information that indicates a requirement desired for a refrigerator by a user planning to purchase the refrigerator;
- refrigerator information acquisition means for acquiring first refrigerator information about a first refrigerator currently used by the user and second refrigerator information about a second refrigerator that satisfies the requirement indicated by the requirement information;
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- screen generation means for generating, based on the first refrigerator information and the second refrigerator information, a screen for visual comparison between the first refrigerator and the second refrigerator, wherein
- the screen generation means further generates a plurality of question screens for presenting questions about a refrigerator to the user in an order dedicated to refrigerators, and
- the requirement information acquisition means acquires the requirement information based on answers that the user inputs on the plurality of question screens.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.