Patent ID: 8125539

Claim:
An information-processing apparatus that processes information obtained by shooting an image of a subject and by collecting ambient sound of the subject, the apparatus comprising: an image-and-sound-recording unit that shoots the image of the subject to output image information on the image and collects the ambient sound of the subject to output sound information on the ambient sound; an information output unit that detects living-body information showing emotion of living-body of an operator who operates the image-and-sound-recording unit to output the living-body information, the information output unit including: (a) a pulse sensor that detects a pulse rate of the operator who operates the image-and-sound-recording unit on a time series to generate pulse information; and (b) a blood pressure sensor that detects a blood pressure of the operator who operates the image-and-sound-recording unit on the time series to generate blood pressure information; and an information-processing unit that: (a) establishes correspondence between the living-body information outputted from the information output unit and at least one of the image information of the subject and the sound information of the ambient sound of the subject, the image information and the sound information being outputted from the image-and-sound-recording unit; and (b) derives pulse-wave transfer time by calculating the pulse information obtained from the pulse sensor and the blood pressure information obtained from the blood pressure sensor.