Patent ID: 7986221

Claim:
An information processing apparatus comprising: a network unit which receives user recognition information including time data from an external device; a processor which receives the user recognition information from the network unit and outputs a user recognition signal corresponding to the time data included in the user recognition information if a current time reaches a time corresponding to the time data; and an output unit which outputs a signal based on the user recognition signal, wherein the output unit comprises at least one of a display which displays an image corresponding to the user recognition signal and a speaker which outputs a sound corresponding to the user recognition signal, and wherein the processor comprises: an interface picture generator which generates an interface picture; and a controller which controls the interface picture generator to generate the interface picture including a setting menu to set an identifier (ID) of the external device receiving the user recognition information, and controls the user recognition signal corresponding to the user recognition information received from the external device having the ID set through the setting menu, to be output to the output unit.