In a multimedia information collection control apparatus, a multimedia
information collection unit collects information from more than one kind
of medium (multimedia). A multimedia correspondence memory
correspondingly stores multimedia information collected by the multimedia
information collection unit. An information recognition unit recognizes
the multimedia information stored in the multimedia correspondence memory
and analyzes the multimedia information as personal data according to the
recognition result. A multimedia database relationally stores the
multimedia information as the personal data analyzed by the information
recognition unit.
