公开(公告)号：US20170223422A1

公开(公告)日：2017-08-03

申请号：US15485351

申请日：2017-04-12

Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Ayako MARUYAMA ,  Kunio NOBORI ,  Koichi HOTTA ,  Mikiya NAKATA ,  Hidetsugu MAEKAWA

IPC: H04N21/488 ,  H04N21/44 ,  H04N21/4788 ,  H04N21/435

CPC classification number: H04N21/4882 ,  G06F17/3082 ,  G06K9/00671 ,  G06T11/60 ,  G11B27/031 ,  H04N13/183 ,  H04N21/2743 ,  H04N21/435 ,  H04N21/44008 ,  H04N21/472 ,  H04N21/47205 ,  H04N21/4788 ,  H04N21/488 ,  H04N21/8133 ,  H04N21/8456

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.