Patent ID: 8818174

Claim:
A reproduction apparatus comprising: a reproducing unit configured to reproduce moving image data and display moving image corresponding to the reproduced moving image data on a display unit; a drawing unit configured to enable a user to draw a freehand image on a moving image displayed on the display unit while the moving image is displayed; a recording unit configured to record drawing process data of the freehand image corresponding to the drawn freehand image for reconstructing the freehand image drawn by said drawing unit in synchronism with a timing of reproducing the moving image data; an instruction unit configured to cause reproduction of the moving image data to start from an arbitrary point in the middle of the moving image data; and a control unit configured to control to display the freehand image which has been drawn up in accordance with the drawing process data of the freehand image to the point instructed by said instruction unit from the point of no freehand image drawn so as to superimpose on a moving image to be displayed at the point of start of reproduction, when said instruction unit instructs to start reproduction of the moving image data from a point in the middle of a drawing operation of the freehand image, the freehand image before the point instructed by said instruction unit, on the display unit.