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Recording medium, apparatus and method for recording data on the recording medium, apparatus and method for reproducing data from the recording medium

US5963704A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJul 17, 1998
Grant dateOct 5, 1999
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Expiry dateJul 17, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N9/8216
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method to form a menu of video data as the background image of the menu and sub-picture data made of an selection item of the menu, alters highlight information for the selection item of the sub-picture data, thereby easily forming various menu. Specifically, a button area for surrounding the selection item and the action item represented by the sub-picture data is provided, and the color and contract of the pattern pixel, background pixel and highlighted pixel as pixel data in the button area are variously altered.

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