a method for identifying the type of tire by correcting a scan error when a tire is scanned at an inappropriate scanning position and thus identification of the type of tire using pattern matching of side bending shapes is failed since a tire to be measured may not be properly located at a fixed photographing position or may not be located at the center of a conveyor belt the side bending shape acquired by scanning may not match the bending shape stored in the tire standard database 230 that is a location related error may occur between a pattern of the measured bending shape and a pattern of the stored bending shape thus a tire identifying system according to the exemplary embodiment 2 primarily matches a pattern of a measured bending shape and a pattern of a stored bending shape and then may secondarily compare whether at least one of an outer diameter od an inner diameter id and the height height of the measured bending shape matches an outer diameter od an inner diameter id and the height height of the primarily matched stored bending shape within a predetermined error range when tire identification using the primary matching is a failure as a result of.