Patent ID: 7965921

Claim:
A storage medium readable by a reproducing apparatus, the storage medium comprising: moving picture data; and subtitle data to be output by the reproducing apparatus as a graphic overlapping an image based on the moving picture data; wherein the subtitle data comprises: text data enabling the reproducing apparatus to generate pixel data to be converted by the reproducing apparatus into a bitmap image; and control information enabling the reproducing apparatus to control the pixel data to be output in real time; wherein the text data defines text to be displayed by the reproducing apparatus via the pixel data; and wherein the control information comprises: time information indicating a time at which the pixel data is to be stored by the reproducing apparatus in a buffer memory of the reproducing apparatus, and a time at which the pixel data is to be deleted by the reproducing apparatus from the buffer memory; and position information indicating a position at which the pixel data is to be output by the reproducing apparatus.