Patent ID: 8836803

Claim:
A non-transitory recording medium containing instruction executed by a processor, the non-transitory recording medium recording a first video, a second video, and metadata for displaying the first video and the second video by superimposing the second video over the first video in a picture-in-picture format, wherein the second video is provided in such a manner that the display or non-display of the second video is switchable at an arbitrary point of time within a displayable period designated in the first video and a display position of the second video is changed depending on a point of time within the displayable period, based on the metadata, wherein the displayable period is longer than total playback time of the second video, and not equal to total play back time of the first video, the metadata is data defined in a range of all time within the displayable period, said metadata including: time information representing time in the first video within the displayable period, and displayed area information that represents a displayed area of the second video in the first video when the second video is changed to displaying at the time, and wherein video data contained in the non-transitory recording medium is reproduced by a video synthesizing apparatus which reads out the first video, the second video and the metadata, designates a displayed position inside the first video based on the metadata when the second video is displayed at an arbitrary point of time, and synthesizes the second video over the displayed position, wherein the metadata manages the time at which the displayed area of the second video is changed to a different position in the first video.