Patent Document ID: 8259176
Application ID: 11723922
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An information provision apparatus, comprising: an acquisition section which captures, by an imaging element, an image in which a subject thereof is an equipment, wherein said equipment is configured to optically provide visually recognizable information and information difficult to visually recognize, to continuously acquire by said acquisition section an image including said optically provided visually recognizable information and said optically provided information difficult to visually recognize, said information difficult to visually recognize being provided by controlling a frequency of a blink of one or more light emitters included in said equipment; a display control section which converts said optically provided information difficult to visually recognize acquired by the acquisition section to visually recognizable picture information and displays said visually recognizable picture information and the image including said visually recognizable information on a display device, said picture information being superimposed on the image including said visually recognizable information: and a display setting section which sets a characteristic of a picture visually indicating association between said visually recognizable information and said visually recognizable picture information, wherein the display control section controls the display device to display the picture visually indicating the association on the image according to the characteristic set by the display setting section, wherein the picture visually indicating the association includes at least any one of a picture in which the picture information is arranged near the visually recognizable information in the image, a picture in which a line positioned between the visually recognizable information in the image and the picture information is shown, a picture in which a words frame from the visually recognizable information in the image and the picture information arranged in the words frame are shown. a picture in which gradual appearance of the picture information from the visually recognizable information in the image is shown, and a picture in which the visually recognizable information in the image and the picture information are alternately displayed. said information provision apparatus further comprising: a recording section which records at least one of the image and the picture information in a condition that the picture information is visually associated with the visually recognizable information or in a condition that the picture information is not visually associated with the visually recognizable information, a recording setting section which sets whether or not to record the image in the condition that the picture information is visually associated with the visually recognizable information, whether or not to separately record the information difficult to visually recognize or whether or not to separately record the image. wherein the recording section records. according to the setting by the record setting section, the image in the condition that the picture information is visually associated with the visually recognizable information, separately records each of the image and the information difficult to visually recognize in the condition that the picture information is not visually associated with the visually recognizable information. separately records the information difficult to visually recognize or separately records the image, further comprising a movement setting section which sets a destination position to which the picture information is to he moved on the display section, wherein the display section moves the picture information to the movement destination position set by the movement setting section and displays the information at the position. said information provision apparatus further comprising a display enable/disable setting section which sets whether or not to display the picture information, wherein the display section displays or does not display the picture information according to the setting made by the display enable/disable setting section.