Patent ID: 7877156

Claim:
An audio reproducing apparatus which reproduces an audio signal and outputs the reproduced audio signal, said audio reproducing apparatus comprising: a synchronization unit operable to allocate, on a time axis, plural pieces of audio reproduction time information of a main audio signal and a sub-audio signal, the plural pieces of the audio reproduction time information of the main audio signal and sub-audio signal being respectively allocated in a manner which maintains a difference between reproduction times indicated by adjacent pieces of the audio reproduction time information of the main audio signal and sub-audio signal so as to synchronize the main audio signal and sub-audio signal; and a synthesis unit operable to synthesize the main audio signal and sub-audio signal using the plural pieces of audio reproduction time information allocated on the time axis, wherein a time when reproduction of the main audio signal is started is different from a time when reproduction of the sub-audio signal is started, and the sub-audio signal is reproduced in accordance with a piece of the audio reproduction time information of the sub-audio signal in the case where the piece of the audio reproduction time information of the sub-audio signal is present, and the sub-audio signal is reproduced in accordance with a piece of the audio reproduction time information of the main audio signal in the case where a piece of the audio reproduction time information of the sub-audio signal is not present.