Storage medium having interactive graphic stream and apparatus for reproducing the same

• US 9,324,360 B2
• Filed: 03/13/2008
• Issued: 04/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/13/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Jung, Kil-soo, Kang, Man-seok
• Primary Examiner(s): Vaughn, Jr., William C
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hess, Michael J
• Application Number:
  US12/047,703
• Publication Number:
  US 20080151994A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,966 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/025 'Virtual' control panels, e.g. Graphical User Interface [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2541 Blu-ray discs; Blue laser DVR discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4112 having fewer capabilities than the client, e.g. thin client having less processing power or no tuning capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/488 Data services, e.g. news ticker systems specially adapted for using meteorological information in broadcast systems H04H60/71
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/44504 Circuit details of the additional information generator, e.g. details of the character or graphics signal generator, overlay mixing circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 involving data reduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal

Abstract

A storage medium including an interactive graphic stream providing menus using various transition effects regardless of reproducing modes of multimedia data and an apparatus for reproducing the same. The storage medium in which multimedia information is recorded includes: video data; and graphic data to provide a menu screen overlaid on an image based on the video data, wherein the graphic data provides a plurality of menu pages. Accordingly, a plurality of menu pages may be provided regardless of application types of a main stream, and various transition effects may be applied when transitions between menu pages are performed.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium configured to store graphic data, the graphic data being decoded in a unit of epoch in a reproducing apparatus, the non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising:

video data; and

the graphic data configured to provide a menu overlaid on an image based on the video data and comprises a plurality of display sets,

wherein each display set comprises a composition segment, an object segment, and a palette segment,

the composition segment comprises information for defining on a plurality of menu pages, each menu page comprising a page identification and transition effect information which is used when a transition of a corresponding menu page is performed, the transition of the corresponding menu page being performed when the corresponding menu page is displayed or disappears, and

the composition segment further comprises status information indicating a type of a corresponding display set comprising the composition segment, the display set being located within an epoch.

2. An apparatus configured to reproduce video data and graphic data from a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, the graphic data being decoded in a unit of epoch, the apparatus comprising:

a decoder configured to decode the video data; and

a graphic decoder configured to decode the graphic data which provides a menu overlaid on an image based on the video data and comprises a plurality of display sets,

wherein each display set comprises a composition segment, an object segment, and a palette segment,

the composition segment comprises information for defining a plurality of menu pages, each menu page comprising a page identification and transition effect information which is used when a transition of a corresponding menu page is performed, the transition of the corresponding menu page being performed when the corresponding menu page is displayed or disappears, and

the composition segment further comprises status information indicating a type of a corresponding display set comprising the composition segment, the display set beinq located within an epoch.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the epoch begins with an epoch start (ES) display set, and an acquisition point (AP) or normal case (NC) display set follows the ES display set.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the ES display set is included in one epoch, and the AP or NC display set is selectively included.