Patent ID: 7685521

Claim:
An information searching apparatus comprising: a search device controlling a search of document information in accordance with a search condition; a camera control device controlling a field of view of a camera by panning, tilting, and zooming of the camera; a memory holding object information about an object in a field of view of the camera controlled by the camera control device, as a range of search, wherein the search device uses the object information as a part of the search condition to control the search; a memory control device controlling the memory to hold the object information in a case of a change being made to the field of view; and a display control device controlling a display of an image from the camera and a final result of document information of the object in the field of view controlled by the camera control device, selected from the searched document information, wherein the final result that is displayed includes the search results obtained by the search controlled by the search device in accordance with the object information in combination with the rest of the search condition.