US Patent 7193635 Portable terminal, overlay output method, and program therefor

A portable terminal allows the user to flexibly and readily change an overlay output distribution for reproduced data in accordance with the user's taste and can automatically control the overlay output distribution in accordance with a surrounding environment. A setting means sets output parameters which are parameters related to reproduced data output for each reproduced data. A data output control means processes each of the reproduced data based on the output parameters set by the setting means and outputs the processed output data.