To control an access in every piece of counterpart equipment or a user using the equipment.

A storage part 32 stores equipment specifying information for specifying the electronic equipment, and a face image that is an image of a face of the user using the electronic equipment, while corresponding each other. A photographing part 31 photographs the face of the user. A specifying part 75 specifies the electronic equipment, based on the equipment specifying information stored in correspondence to the image of the face consistent with the photographed face of the user. The present invention is applicable to, for example, a communication device having a photographing function such as a digital still camera and a cellular phone.