Patent ID: 6879775
Filing Date: 2005-04-12
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An optical disc playback apparatus for reproducing data to be reproduced from an optical disc of a plurality of kinds of optical discs, the optical disc having data recorded thereon in one of a plurality of different display formats, and for outputting an on-screen message composed of a character font (hereinafter referred to as font), said apparatus comprising: a disc detection system operable to detect a media type of the optical disc; a reader operable to read the recorded data, which includes the data to be reproduced and information related to the display format of the data to be reproduced, from a recording surface of the optical disc; an on-screen message generator operable to generate a digital character signal sequence to be displayed as the on-screen message; and an on-screen message font-resolution selector operable to control said on-screen message generator to set a resolution of the font to a value dependent on the media type of the optical disc and to scale the font by a value dependent on the display format of the data to be reproduced.