Patent ID: 7466904

Claim:
A method for processing image data in an interactive media player, the method comprising: receiving first and second image sources from at least one of an interactive recoding medium including data to be reproduced by the interactive media player and an external server providing enhanced additional data to be reproduced by the interactive media player with the reproduced data from the interactive recording medium; determining if said at least first and second image sources are to be output on a same display screen associated with the interactive media player; determining if bit depths of frames included in the first and second image sources are different from each other when said at least first and second image sources are to be output on the same display screen; selectively converting a bit depth of the frames of one of the first and second image sources to be the same as a bit depth of the frames of the other of the first and second image sources when the bit depths of the frames of the first and second image sources are different from each other, and not converting the bit depth of the frames of said one the first and second image sources when the bit depths of the frames of the first and second image sources are not different from each other; and outputting the first and second image sources on the same display screen associated with the interactive media player.