Patent ID: 7987147

Claim:
An information processing apparatus for carrying out processes, said information processing apparatus comprising: a sensor device configured to sense conditions including information about a plurality of targets each being one of a plurality of users staying close to the apparatus; an operator probability computation device configured to compute a plurality of operator probabilities each corresponding to one of the plurality of targets on the basis of the information about the plurality of targets, each of the plurality of operator probability representing how likely the corresponding target is to be an operator operating said information processing apparatus such that the information processing apparatus carries out processes in response to how the operator behaves; an operator selection device configured to select a selected operator based on the plurality of operator probabilities; an action selection device configured to select an action to be performed based on estimating behavior of the selected operator in one or more scenes sensed by the sensor device; and an action execution device configured to perform a predetermined process based on the selected action.