Patent ID: 8210948

Claim:
A recording medium reproducing apparatus for reproducing a portable recording medium storing video contents and a plurality of items of icon information, the icon information being information relating to an icon picture associated with the video contents and including information relating to a resolution and number of displayable colors, the icon information corresponding to each operation mode corresponding to user operation of the recording medium reproducing apparatus, the apparatus comprising: an image plane which is a frame memory area used for displaying video data of the video contents; a storage unit that stores the plurality of items of icon information stored in the portable recording medium; an information display plane which is a frame memory area used for displaying the icon picture data on the basis of the icon information stored in the storage unit; a selection unit that selects the icon information corresponding to said each operation mode to be held in the information display plane from the plurality of items of icon information stored in the storage unit on the basis of a display capability including the resolution and the number of displayable colors of the information display plane; and a synthesizing unit that synthesizes the video data held in the image plane and the icon picture data held in the information display plane, thereby outputting a superimposed video signal.