Patent ID: 8903131

Claim:
An information display equipment comprising: a photographing portion to photograph an object; a dictionary that memorizes information with respect to plural characters; an object distinction portion to distinguish a kind of object photographed by the said photographing portion; a character distinction portion to distinguish the characters included in the object photographed by the said photographing portion; an information extraction portion that extracts information corresponding to the characters from the said dictionary, based on the kind of object distinguished by the said object distinction portion and the characters distinguished by the said character distinction portion; and a display portion to display the information corresponding to the characters extracted by the said information extraction portion, wherein the said object distinction portion is the one that has a compass that judges direction of the said photographing portion, a direction decision portion that judges, based on information from the said compass, direction of the said photographing portion, and a table that associates and memorizes the direction of the said photographing portion with a kind of object, and distinguishes, based on the direction of the said photographing portion, the kind of object, the said dictionary is a dictionary having databases depending on the kind of object, and the said information extraction portion selects a database depending on the kind of object included in the said dictionary, using the kind of the object distinguished by the said object distinction portion, based on the characters distinguished by the said character distinction portion, the information corresponding to these characters is extracted from the selected database.