STORAGE MEDIUM RECORDING TEXT-BASED SUBTITLE STREAM, REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND REPRODUCING METHOD FOR REPRODUCING TEXT-BASED SUBTITLE STREAM RECORDED ON THIS STORAGE MEDIUM.

摘要

A STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A MULTIMEDIA IMAGE STREAM AND A TEXT-BASED SUBTITLE STREAM, AND A REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND A REPRODUCING METHOD THEREFOR ARE PROVIDED TO REPRODUCE THE TEXT-BASED SUBTITLE DATA STREAM RECORDED SEPARATELY FROM THE MULTIMEDIA IMAGE STREAM SUCH THAT THE SUBTITLE DATA CAN BE EASILY PRODUCED AND EDITED AND A CAPTION CAN BE PROVIDED IN A PLURALITY OF LANGUAGES. THE STORAGE MEDIUM STORES: IMAGE DATA; AND TEXT-BASED SUBTITLE DATA TO DISPLAY A CAPTION ON AN IMAGE BASED ON THE IMAGE DATA, WHEREIN THE SUBTITLE DATA INCLUDES: ONE STYLE INFORMATION ITEM SPECIFYING AN OUTPUT STYLE OF THE CAPTION; AND A PLURALITY OF PRESENTATION INFORMATION ITEMS THAT ARE DISPLAYING UNITS OF THE CAPTION, AND THE SUBTITLE DATA IS SEPARATED AND RECORDED SEPARATELY FROM THE IMAGE DATA. ACCORDINGLY, A CAPTION CAN BE PROVIDED IN A PLURALITY OF LANGUAGES, AND CAN BE EASILY PRODUCED AND EDITED, AND THE OUTPUT STYLE OF CAPTION DATA CAN BE CHANGED IN A VARIETY OF WAYS. IN ADDITION, PART OF A CAPTION CAN BE EMPHASIZED OR A SEPARATE STYLE THAT A USER CAN CHANGE CAN BE APPLIED.