INFORMATION PROVIDING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROVIDING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND CONTROL PROGRAM

摘要

An apparatus of this invention is an information processing apparatus for providing information to general public. This information processing apparatus displays a screen including an inducement image to induce a hand motion. The hand motions of persons in the sensed public are recognized. According to the feature of this invention, out of the persons in the sensed public, a person whose recognized hand motion corresponds to the hand motion to be induced by the inducement image is identified. The identified person is set as the advertising target person, thereby producing an opportunity for persons to pay attention to advertising information.