Patent ID: 8705935

Claim:
A receiving device for receiving data transmitted via a broadcast or via a network, wherein the data includes a main-view video stream, a sub-view video stream, a graphics stream, and metadata, the main-view video stream includes picture data of a main view of a stereoscopic image, the sub-view video stream includes picture data of a sub view of the stereoscopic image, the graphics stream includes graphics data, the metadata is control information that defines an offset control for each of a plurality of rectangular areas that are obtained by dividing a screen, the offset control applying offsets of leftward and rightward directions to horizontal coordinates of a group of pixels constituting a rectangular area, when the graphics data is overlaid with the picture data of the main view and the picture data of the sub view, and the receiving device comprises: a video decoder operable to obtain the picture data of the main view and the picture data of the sub view by decoding the main-view video stream and the sub-view video stream; a graphics decoder operable to obtain the graphics data by decoding the graphics stream; and an overlay unit operable to overlay the graphics data with the picture data of the main view and the picture data of the sub view by applying offsets of leftward and rightward directions to the horizontal coordinates of the group of pixels constituting each rectangular area in accordance with the control information.