Information acquisition/presentation apparatus, information providing apparatus, and information communication system provided with information acquisition/presentation apparatus and information providing apparatus

An information providing apparatus, comprising:

• communication means for communicating to/from an external portion;
• request acquisition means for acquiring a request relating to provision of information from the external portion through the communication means;
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• information providing means for supplying and providing, through the communication means, the information corresponding to the request acquired by the request acquisition means, the information providing means comprising storage means for storing various kinds of information,
• wherein the information providing means provides the external portion with the information to be displayed in one display mode or the information to be displayed in another display mode different from the one display mode.

An information communication system, comprising an information providing apparatus for providing various kinds of information and an information acquisition/presentation apparatus for acquiring the various kinds of information provided from the information providing apparatus and presenting the various kinds of information, which communicate to/from each other, wherein:

• the information acquisition/presentation apparatus issues one information providing request signal for requesting the information providing apparatus to provide the information to be displayed in one display mode or another information providing request signal for requesting the information providing apparatus to provide the information to be displayed in another display mode different from the one display mode, which is different from the one information providing request signal, depending on an information display state on a display for displaying the acquired information;
• the information providing apparatus provides the information acquisition/presentation apparatus with the information to be displayed in the one display mode corresponding to the one information providing request signal when acquiring the one information providing request signal issued from the information acquisition/presentation apparatus, and provides the information acquisition/presentation apparatus with the information to be displayed in the another display mode corresponding to the another information providing request signal when acquiring the another information providing request signal issued from the information acquisition/presentation apparatus;
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• the information acquisition/presentation apparatus displays the information to be displayed in the one display mode, which has been acquired in correspondence with the one information providing request signal from the information providing apparatus, on the display, and displays the information to be displayed in the another display mode, which has been acquired in correspondence with the another information providing request signal from the information providing apparatus, on the display.