An apparatus and a method capable of accurately recognizing that a person will appear on a road and certainly notifying the person that an autonomous moving body has recognized a place where the person will appear are disclosed. An apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure detects, as a recognition target, a person appearance area, in which a person will appear, formed by a recognition target presentation apparatus on a road and presents, to the person, a result of recognition indicating that the autonomous moving body has recognized the person appearance area as a result of the detection of the recognition target.