Patent ID: 8006278
Filing Date: 2011-08-23
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A management method for setting caption display style, the method comprising: receiving a broadcast signal; parsing a video signal and a closed caption signal from the broadcast signal; displaying a caption style setting menu for setting caption display style, the caption style setting menu being comprised of a selectable item of a ‘Set By Program’ and a ‘Custom’ item, and each of the selectable item having a plurality of caption style attributes and displaying the plurality of caption style attributes of at least one of the selectable item; and selecting one of the ‘Set By Program’ and the ‘Custom’ item in the caption style setting menu, wherein, when the ‘Custom’ item is selected activating the plurality of caption style attributes for viewer selection, decoding a caption text from the closed caption signal, setting the plurality of caption style attributes depending on a viewer setting and wherein if any one of the plurality of caption style attributes has a selection for ‘Set by program’ and when the ‘Set by program’ is selected for any one of the plurality of caption style attributes by a viewer in a state the ‘Custom’ item is selected, automatically setting all of the plurality of caption style attributes as ‘Set by program’, generating a user graphic information, combining the caption text, the video signal and the user graphic information according to the plurality of caption style attributes set by the viewer, displaying a caption preview in a caption display confirmation region to display a sample of a caption text and the caption display style according to the plurality of caption style attributes set by the viewer and displaying the caption text according to the plurality of caption style attributes set by the viewer, and when the ‘Set By Program’ is selected, decoding a caption text and a caption style information from the closed caption signal automatically, setting the plurality of caption style attributes depending on the decoded caption style information, generating a user graphic information, combining the caption text, the video signal and the user graphic information according to the plurality of caption style attributes set by the decoded caption style information.