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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2017
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Ayako Maruyama, Osaka, JP;
Kunio Nobori, Osaka, JP;
Koichi Hotta, Hyogo, JP;
Mikiya Nakata, Nara, JP;
Hidetsugu Maekawa, Nara, JP;
Abstract
A comment-provided video generating apparatus includes: a display priority calculating unit which calculates a display priority for each of the comments and subject regions to which the comments are provided, based on comment information indicating comments to be superimposed and displayed on a video and display positions of the comments, and user information, by calculating a higher display priority for one of the comments and the subject regions specified by user information; a comment superimposing method determining unit which determines, as a method for superimposing the comments onto a video, an order of displaying the comments and the subject regions such that a comment or a subject region having a higher display priority is displayed at a position frontward than the others, according to the display priority; and an image composing unit which superimposes the comments on the video, according to the comment superimposing method.