Patent ID: 8724027

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; an area determination section that determines a character area in an input video; a supplemental information storing section that determines whether or not an object area exists in the proximity of an at least one character area determined by the area determination section, cuts out a video on a supplemental information area when the object area exists, and stores the video on the supplemental information area as supplemental information including the object area; a supplemental information display determination section that determines whether or not the supplemental information stored by the supplemental information storing section is displayed in addition to an input video based on a screen configuration managed by the screen configuration management section; 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 the supplemental information display determination section determines whether the supplemental information is displayed based on a size of a character included in a character area in the input video which changes in response to the scaling managed by the screen configuration management section, and wherein the supplemental information display determination section preferentially displays supplemental information obtained by cutting out a video on a supplemental information area including a character area whose character size is determined as the smallest in the at least one character area extracted by the area determination section.