Patent ID: 7557865
Filing Date: 2009-07-07
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A display control apparatus comprising: a character information analyzer, responsive to reception of a television broadcast signal bearing video information and character information, for defining a display area for characters contained in the character information on a display picture based on a display position, number and size of the characters; a video information analyzer that analyzes video information corresponding to the display area for the characters defined by the character information analyzer; and a character image producing unit that produces an image of each of the characters to be displayed in the display area based on a result of the analysis by the video information analyzer; wherein the video information analyzer divides the display area for the characters defined by the character information analyzer into subareas for the respective characters, and analyzes a hue of video information corresponding to each subarea, and the character image producing unit sets in each subarea a hue different from that of the video information analyzed by the video information analyzer and produces an image of each character in a display color with the set hue in that subarea.