Patent ID: 8743259

Claim:
An information displaying apparatus, comprising: a body; a first image-capturing unit, disposed at the body, that captures a subject image and generates first image information; a memory control unit that stores information to a storage medium and outputs the information from the storage medium, the information including the first image information generated by the first image-capturing unit and index information that visually conveys an event and a content to an observer, the index information not being captured by the first image-capturing unit; a display, disposed to face the observer at the body, that displays the information output from the storage medium in a predetermined display form on a screen of the display; a second image-capturing unit, disposed to face the observer at the body, that captures an image of the observer in a state to observe the display and outputs an image signal; a facial image detection unit that detects a relative position at which a facial image corresponding to a face of the observer occupies an image-capturing area based on the image signal output from the second image-capturing unit, the image-capturing area including the facial image of the observer not being displayed on the screen of the display; and a display form change unit that changes the display form of the information to be displayed on the screen, wherein, the display form change unit changes the display form so that the information to be displayed on the screen is distorted based on the relative position at which the facial image occupies the image-capturing area detected by the facial image detection unit.