Patent ID: 7280138

Claim:
A camera apparatus comprising: a photographing unit for photographing a subject; an image storage unit for storing an image photographed by the photographing unit; a message storage unit for storing a plurality of groups of messages, each said group comprising a plurality of messages having a same meaning that are expressed in respective different languages; a language setting unit for setting one of the different languages as a first language and for setting another of the different languages as a second language in response to a request made by a user; a message reading unit for reading out, from the message storage unit, both a message in the first language and a message in the second language from the same group as the message in the first language; a message output unit for outputting, in combination, the message in the first language and the corresponding message in the second language read out by the message reading unit; wherein the language setting unit comprises: a language specifying unit for specifying a plurality of the different languages as proposed languages for said second language based on a time difference between a reference area and another area defined by said user; and a language selecting unit for prompting the user to select one of said proposed languages as said second language.