aparelho para prover informação, método para prover informação para um aparelho para prover informação, programa, aparelho de terminal, e, método de processamento de informação

摘要

The present invention is associated with an information providing apparatus and method, a terminal apparatus and an information processing method, and a program that are configured to provide users with registered information without locational restrictions. A recognition device 21 recognizes a category from an image of a target object 122-1 obtained by the user in a terminal apparatus 12-1. A server 11 transmits the recognized category to the terminal apparatus 12-1 and receives category "fixed phone" selected by the user and additional information 123 corresponding thereto. An information DB 22 relates the additional information 123 with a recognition device 21 of "fixed phone" and register the related additional information 123. Subsequently, the recognition device 21 recognizes a category from an image of a target object 122-2 obtained by the user in the terminal apparatus 12-1. Upon recognizing the category of "fixed phone" from the image of the target object 122-2, the server 11 obtains the additional information 123 registered in the information DB 22 and transmits the obtained additional information 123 to the terminal apparatus 12-1. The present invention is applicable to information providing systems for example.