1. A hand pointing apparatus comprising: illuminating means for illuminating a person to be recognized; a plurality of image pickup means, located in different positions, wherein an image pickup range is adjusted for each image so that said person to be recognized, who is illuminated by said illuminating means, may be within the image pickup range and an illuminated range on a floor surface, which is illuminated by said illuminating means, may be out of the image pickup range; and determining means for extracting an image part corresponding to said person to be recognized from a plurality of images based on a plurality of images of situations picked up by said plurality of image pickup means, the situations being indicative of said person to be recognized pointing to either a specific position or a specific direction, and for determining either the position or the direction pointed to by said person to be recognized.