Patent ID: 9674582
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06K,G06T,G11B,H04N

Claim:
1. A comment-provided video generating apparatus comprising: a processor; and a non-transitory memory having stored thereon executable instructions, which when executed, cause the processor to perform: wherein the outputting includes outputting, onto an image display, the comment-provided video in which either (i) a first pair of the first subject region and the second comment region which includes the comment provided to the first subject region or (ii) a second pair of the first comment region and the second subject region which is provided with the comment included in the first comment region is superimposed and displayed on the other comment regions and the other subject regions, the first subject region and the first comment region corresponding to a user-selected region located at the specified position indicated by the user information, and wherein the determining determines the superimposing method such that only a comment region which is displayed at a foremost position in each of frames of the video in a case of normal reproduction among the comment regions in the frame is displayed during a period in which a viewing method which is other than the normal reproduction and includes fast forward, preview, rewind, and skip is performed on the comment-provided video.