Patent ID: 8717415

Claim:
A disc player to read image data from a disc and to output at least one image to be displayed in three dimensions (3D) on a display, the disc player comprising: a disc drive to read data from a removable disc; a graphics plane configured to store a graphics image, the graphics plane being a storage region comprising two image storage regions disposed in an array, the two image storage regions comprising an L (Left) region to store an image for the left eye and an R (Right) region to store an image for the right eye, wherein a 3D image of a cursor of a pointing device comprises said image for the left eye and said image for the right eye; and at least one processor programmed to carry out a method comprising: reading, from the removable disc, a value indicating a maximum depth at which images stored on the removable disc are to be displayed in 3D on the display; determining a depth at which to display the cursor on the display, the depth being greater than the maximum depth read from the removable disc; calculating a left two-dimensional (2D) position and a right 2D position for the cursor, the left 2D position and right 2D position corresponding to a position at which the image for the left eye and the image for the right eye are to be displayed in 2D so as to form the 3D image of the cursor of the pointing device at the determined depth; and in response to user operation of the pointing device, issuing an event that has a position of the cursor as an argument, wherein issuing the event comprises issuing the event using, as the position of the cursor of the pointing device, one of the left 2D position or the right 2D position.