Patent ID: 9338422
Filing Date: 2016-05-10
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A display control method comprising: generating TTML (Timed Text Markup Language) data in which predetermined attribute information pertaining to subtitle forced display is described in a tag defining an element of text; recording the TTML data generated by the generation step, on a required recording medium; inputting the TTML data recorded on the recording medium; and performing, via processing circuitry and on the basis of the predetermined attribute information in the TTML data input by the input step, control such that characters based on text data designated by the tag in which the attribute information is written are displayed on a display unit regardless of whether a subtitle display setting is ON or OFF, wherein the portion of characters of the text data being displayed on the display unit is determined based on a location at which the predetermined attribute information is located within the tag, wherein, in the generation step and when a video image file is being recorded to the recording medium,