Patent ID: 8649661

Claim:
An apparatus to transfer data with respect to a storage medium, the storage medium comprising moving image data and subtitle data for providing a subtitle for the moving image data, the subtitle data comprising a style set element comprising at least one style element and at least one user changeable style element, the at least one style element comprising an identifier of the style element and style information to be applied to a text in a script element, the script element comprising text information having the text to be used for the subtitle, information on an output time when the subtitle is to be output, and information designating the identifier of the style element to be applied to the text, the at least one user changeable style element comprising an identifier of the user changeable style element and style information which can be selected by a user selection, the apparatus comprising: a player status register configured to store the identifier of the user changeable style element to be used to select a user changeable style element among the at least one user changeable style element of the subtitle data; and a text subtitle processor configured to select the style element in the style set element based on the information designating the identifier of the style element in the script element, select the user changeable style element among the at least one user changeable style element of the style set element based on the stored identifier of the user changeable style element stored in the player status resister, and apply the selected style element and the selected user changeable style element to the text in the script element, the user changeable style element being changed by the text subtitle processor when the identifier of the user changeable style element stored in the player status register is changed during reproduction of the moving image data.