Patent ID: 8180201

Claim:
A reproducing apparatus for reproducing from a storage medium video data and graphics data for displaying a menu, the apparatus comprising: a video decoder configured to decode the video data; and a graphics decoder configured to decode the graphics data comprising: first graphics data; and second graphics data, wherein: the graphics decoder is further configured to: decode the first graphics data to be displayed in response for an activation command; and decode the second graphics data to be displayed at a designated time, the first graphics data and the second graphics data comprise an identical or similar structure comprising a field for discriminating between the first graphics data and the second graphics data, and the first graphics data and the second graphics data are different, wherein the first graphics data and the second graphics data comprise an interactive composition segment structure and the field is a type field defined such that, when a value of the type field is a first value, the second graphics data is indicated, and when the value of the type field is a second value, the first graphics data is indicated.