Patent ID: 7554563

Claim:
A video display control apparatus, comprising: a data storage storing a video data and a graphic/control integrated data including graphic data to be combined with the video data and control information used to display the graphic data; and a controller combining the video data and the graphic data based on the graphic/control integrated data and transmitting the combined data to at least one display device, wherein the graphic/control integrated data comprises a line information layer and a line data layer, the line data layer comprises pixel data included in each line of a plurality of lines constituting the graphic data, and the line information layer comprises the control information on the each line of the plurality of lines constituting the graphic data, and wherein the line information comprises at least more than one item of information with respect to each line indicating whether OSD data exists, whether run-length encoding is performed, whether a bitmap table is used, and whether it is the same as an upper line.