Method and device for providing information

Abstract

The objects of the present invention are, in connection with the provision of information mainly through images to the general public or to individuals, to detect whether the user or users who is or are at a place from where he, she or they can observe the image is or are watching the image or not and to efficiently provide good information by finding out the interest and attributes of the user or users. In order to achieve the above objects, the voice data acquired by the voice inputting unit, the image data currently being provided and information added to the image data are compared, and the degree of attention of the subjects is estimated based on the degree of similitude of these data. And the language used by the user or users is estimated by a language identifying device, and information is provided by using the language.

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