Patent ID: 7660825

Claim:
An audio/visual (AV) content providing system that provides AV contents to an audience, including more than one individual, which is present within a particular area, comprising: a processor; an audience information obtaining unit configured to obtain personal information that represents characteristics of the audience, which is present in the particular area, and relationship information that represents relationships of an individual in the audience to other individuals in the audience; an AV content database that contains one or a plurality of AV contents; an attribute index that is correlated with AV content contained in the AV content database and that describes attributes of the AV content; and a selection unit configured to collate the personal information that is representative of the audience, the relationship information that is representative of the relationships within the audience, and the attribute index and selecting an AV content that is provided to the audience from the AV content database according to a collated result, wherein the audience information obtaining unit includes a voiced sound information obtaining unit configured to obtain voiced sound information of the audience from the particular area by at least two microphones; and a first audience information obtaining unit configured to obtain audience number information that represents the number of individuals in the audience who exist in the particular area and audience position information that represents the positions of individuals in the particular area according to the voiced sound information obtained by the voiced sound information obtaining unit.