1. A gesture recognition apparatus for recognizing a gesture of a predetermined operating body, comprising: a storage unit, having stored therein, correspondence relationships between a plurality of coordinate ranges in relation to the operating body and to a plurality of operation target apparatuses, each of the plurality of coordinate ranges further corresponding to each operation target apparatus of the plurality of operation target apparatuses; an image capturing unit configured to capture one or more images of the operating body; a coordinate detecting unit configured to detect coordinates of the operating body based on the one or more captured images; an operation target apparatus specifying unit configured to select an operation target apparatus corresponding to the detected coordinates of the operating body and the stored correspondence relationships; and a gesture recognition processing unit configured to recognize a gesture associated with the operating body based on the one or more captured images and corresponding to the selected operation target apparatus.