Abstract: An accounting system according to the present disclosure includes a terminal that is placed on a table used by a customer, a connection apparatus that is connected to the terminal at the time of accounting, and a server that communicates with the terminal and the connection apparatus via a network. The terminal receives an order for a product from the customer and then transmits table identification information by which the table can be identified and product information regarding the product to the server, the server stores the table identification information and the product information in association with each other as accounting information, and the terminal acquires, when it is connected to the connection apparatus, the accounting information associated with the table identification information from the server and performs accounting processing.

Abstract: A product recognition system which displays candidates of product names for each captured image of each product in a manner which is compact and allows the candidates to be recognized at a glance. A product recognition apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires an image of a product to be purchased and a calculation unit that calculates a degree of similarity between the image of the product to be purchased and an image of a product stored in association with a product name in advance, a specifying unit that specifies a candidate of the product name corresponding to the product to be purchased based on the calculated degree of similarity, and a generation unit that generates a composite image obtained by superposing the name of the specified candidate of the product name on the image of the product to be purchased.