Patent ID: 8482672

Claim:
A video output device comprising: a screen configuration management section that manages a placement or a scaling of a screen for displaying at least one video and maintains a profile setting specified by a user that establishes desired content that is to be displayed in a character area in an input video, wherein the desired content is selected from a plurality of different types of content; an area determination section that determines the character area in the input video; a communication section that acquires a character string included in at least one character area determined by the area determination section as supplemental information from an external server in accordance with the profile setting specified by the user; a supplemental information display determination section that determines whether or not the supplemental information acquired by the communication section is displayed in addition to an input video based on the screen configuration managed by the screen configuration management section and the profile setting specified by the user; and an output section that outputs the input video and the supplemental information in accordance with commands from the screen configuration management section and the supplemental information display determination section, wherein when a size of a character included in the at least one character area determined by the area determination section is smaller than a threshold value, the supplemental information display determination section displays the supplemental information.