Information display apparatus, information display method and program therefor

Abstract

An information display apparatus includes a display device configured to display a video, a speech detection unit configured to detect a playback state of a playback speech, a closed caption display unit configured to generate character information associated with the playback speech and display it on the display device together with the video, and a closed caption display unit configured to carry out a changing control for changing according to the detected playback state a display state of the character information that is displayed on the display device by the closed caption display unit.

1 . An information display method comprising:
 selecting a single-screen display mode or a multi-screen display mode;   playing back a video and a speech with respect to a single screen on the single-screen display mode and each of a plurality of screens on the multi-screen display mode;   controlling states of the video and speech; and   changing a display state of the character information associated with the video and the speech with respect to each of the screens when the multi-screen display mode is selected.