Patent ID: 7787753

Claim:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with a computer executable data structure for managing reproduction of a text subtitle data by a reproducing apparatus, comprising: a data area storing a text subtitle stream including at least a first segment and a second segment, the first segment including global style information, and the second segment including text subtitle data and local style information, the first and second segments including identifiers identifying the first and second segments, respectively, and the second segment being linked to the first segment, the global style information providing at least one of composition information and rendering information for a region including the text subtitle data, and the local style information providing at least one font information for the text subtitle data for managing reproduction by the reproducing apparatus, wherein the global style information included in the first segment is separate from the text subtitle data included in the second segment and the local style information forms a group with the text subtitle data in the second segment, and the local style information provides the font information for the text subtitle data recorded sequentially after the local style information.