Patent ID: 6741795
Filing Date: 2004-05-25
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A digital video disc player, connectable to an apparatus for displaying images, for reading audio signals, video signals and sub-picture signals as MPEG compressed, and associated with each other to form digital content, encoded and multiplexed from a digital video disc, and outputting digital signals in accordance with a transmission format, comprising:a sub-picture decoder for decoding the sub-picture signals; a reference time generating circuit for generating a reference time with which the video signals as MPEG compressed and the sub-picture signals as decoded by the sub-picture decoder can be synchronized with each other for reproducing the content composed of the video signals, the audio signals and the sub-picture signals as associated at said apparatus for displaying images; and a digital interface for outputting the video signals as MPEG compressed, the audio signals and the sub-picture signals as decoded by the sub-picture decoder in the form of the digital signals together with the reference time to said apparatus for displaying images.