Patent ID: 9723245
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A data transmitting apparatus, comprising: a packet generator configured to generate an audio metadata packet associated with audio data; and a transmitter configured to transmit the generated audio metadata packet to a data receiving apparatus, wherein the generated audio metadata packet comprises a split screen information field in relation to the audio data, wherein the split screen information field comprises a split screen valid field and a split screen configuration field, the split screen valid field indicating whether a split screen is supported, wherein, when the split screen valid field is set to a first predefined value, the split screen configuration field is valid and the split screen configuration field indicates a split screen mode that determines how a screen is split, and wherein, when the split screen valid field is set to a second predefined value, the split screen configuration field is invalid.