Patent Document ID: 7720599
Application ID: 11212102

Base Claim:
1. A tourist information guiding apparatus, comprising: a tourist spot information storage device configured to store image data relating to tourist spots in correspondence with character string data for a sightseeing guide written in a plurality of languages; a monitor provided on an apparatus main body; a tourist spot receiver provided in the apparatus main body configured to receive a selection of a tourist spot; a language receiver provided in the apparatus main body configured to receive a selection of a language; a display controller configured to cause the monitor to display an image relating to the tourist spot selected by the tourist spot receiver together with a character string for sightseeing guide written in the language designated by the language receiver; a printer configured to print an image on a recording sheet; a print instruction receiver provided in the apparatus main body configured to receive a print instruction from the outside to print the image relating to the tourist spot displayed on the monitor and the character string for the sightseeing guide written in the image; a print controller configured to cause the printer to print the image relating to the tourist spot instructed to be printed and the character string for the sightseeing guide written in the image; and a local language receiver provided in the apparatus main body configured to receive the selection of a local language used at the place of installation of the apparatus from a plurality of languages; and said print controller causes the character string data for the sightseeing guide stored in said tourist spot information storage device in the language designated by the language receiver and in the local language designated by the local language receiver to be included in a print data.

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Claim 12:
12. A tourist information guiding apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising: a type information storage device for storing type information specifying the types of the tourist spots in correspondence with the image data relating to the tourist spots; a type receiver provided in the apparatus main body for receiving the selection of the type of the tourist spots; and a searcher for searching the image data of the tourist spots corresponding to the tourist spot type selected by the type receiver from contents of storage of the tourist spot information storage device; wherein the display controller causes the monitor to display a list of images relating to the tourist spots searched by the searcher together with the character strings for sightseeing guide written in the language designated by the language receiver.