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DVD playback system capable of playing two subtitles at the same time

US6775467B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateAug 1, 2000
Grant dateAug 10, 2004
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Expiry dateAug 23, 2022

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N21/426
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A DVD playback system, associated with a DVD storage media. It comprises a loader, a system parser, a decoding device and a video/sub-picture composer. The loader system is for reading the digital data tagged with stream IDs from the DVD storage media, a primary sub-picture control signal (SP1) from the navigator, and a secondary sub-picture control signal (SP2) from the user interface. The system parser and the decoding device are for dividing the digital data into an video stream, at least one audio stream, a primary sub-picture stream and a secondary sub-picture stream and then decoding each individual stream separately into video signal, audio signal and sub-picture signal. The sub-picture signal comprises of aprimary sub-picture and a secondary sub-picture signals; The video/sub-picture composer is for mixing the video signal and the sub-picture signal to generate the video output, while the audio output module is for generating the audio output.

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