METHOD FOR DETERMINING AUTHENTICITY OF OBJECT, METHOD FOR ACQUIRING AUTHENTICITY DETERMINATION IMAGE DATA, OBJECT AUTHENTICITY DETERMINATION SYSTEM, AUTHENTICITY DETERMINATION IMAGE DATA ACQUIRING SYSTEM, AND AUTHENTICITY DETERMINING PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique allowing an end consumer and the like who has no special dedicated equipment to easily determine authenticity using a retroreflection seal.SOLUTION: A customer (a user) captures an image with a camera while applying rectilinear light to a retroreflection seal from an LED light of a multifunctional portable communication terminal and transmits the image data to a center. The center performs an authenticity determination using the transmitted image data and notifies the customer of the result. An authenticity determination application is installed in the multifunctional portable communication terminal, so that the lighting of the LED light and imaging by the camera are enabled by executing the application and further transmission of the image data becomes possible. The notification from the center can be received by mail, so that even an end user can easily check the authenticity determination result.