Information-processing apparatus, information-processing methods, recording mediums, and programs

An information-processing method adopted by an information-processing apparatus as a method for communicating with an other information-processing apparatus, which is connected to said information-processing apparatus by a network, said information-processing method comprising:

• reproducing moving video content data common to said information-processing apparatus and said other information-processing apparatus synchronously with said other information-processing apparatus;
• inputting first user condition information including a voice and image of a user operating said information-processing apparatus;
• receiving second user condition information including a voice and image of an other user from said other information-processing apparatus operated by said other user;
• synthesizing a voice and image of said moving video content data synchronously reproduced at said reproducing with said voice and image of said other user received at said receiving by superimposing the voice and image onto the moving video content data, the synthesizing including creating a single image including both the voice and image of the moving video content data and the voice and image of the other user such that the image of the content data extends within an area and at least part of the image of the other user is included within the area of the image of the moving video content data;
• simultaneously displaying said voice and image of said moving video content data synthesized with said voice and image of said other user;
• analyzing at least either said first user condition information input at said inputting or said second user condition information received at said receiving;
• and
• setting a control parameter used for controlling said synthesizing on the basis of an analysis result produced at said analyzing.

A recording medium for recording a program to be executed by a computer to perform a method for communicating with an information-processing apparatus, which is connected to said computer by a network, said method comprising:

• reproducing content data common to said information-processing apparatus and said other information-processing apparatus synchronously with said other information-processing apparatus;
• inputting first user condition information including a voice and image of a user operating said information-processing apparatus;
• receiving second user condition information including a voice and image of an other user from said other information-processing apparatus operated by said other user;
• synthesizing a voice and image of said moving video content data synchronously reproduced at said reproducing with said voice and image of said other user received at said receiving by superimposing the voice and image onto the moving video content data, the synthesizing including creating a single image including both the voice and image of the moving video content data and the voice and image of the other user such that the image of the content data extends within an area and at least part of the image of the other user is included within the area of the image of the moving video content data;
• simultaneously displaying said voice and image of said moving video content data synthesized with said voice and image of said other user;
• analyzing at least either said first user condition information input at said inputting or said second user condition information received at said receiving;
• and
• setting a control parameter used for controlling said synthesizing on the basis of an analysis result produced at said analyzing.