Patent ID: 6967666

Claim:
A method of synthesizing an image with a moving picture using a system including an input device, a memory storing the moving picture and a display displaying said moving picture, comprising: when replay of said moving picture is stopped at an arbitrary replay positon of said moving picture on said display, identifying an image inputted by said input device and position data of said input image and displaying on said display said input image in superposition with the stopped moving picture; storing information of said replay position of said moving picture; while replaying said moving picture from said arbitrary replay position, drawing a locus of motion of said image using said input device to determine position data of said locus of motion on the mage with time and storing said determined position data and time data representing when said position data is determined; and while replaying said moving picture starting from said stored replay position, displaying on said display said image in accordance with said stored position data of the locus of motion and said stored time data, wherein the image is a still image.