Provided is an image display system in which image data of a commercial
product as an article (8) is freely selected and given to a purchaser by
using two-way communication such as Internet and the article (8) can be
observed from a view point desired by the purchaser. In this system, the
article (8) is placed on a turn table (16) which rotates around a
rotational axis (15), an image is taken by a camera (9) installed on a
wrist (19) of a robot (18) of plural axes while keeping camera posture Nv
so that an optical axis (21) of the camera (9) passes through an
observation point of the article (8), for example, a flower, and image
data for respective plural imaging positions are stored in the memory
(31). An operator specifies the imaging position continuously so that the
image data corresponding to the specified imaging position is read out
from the memory (31) and displayed by a display means (28) with a control
means.
