Patent ID: 8254753

Claim:
A subtitle generating apparatus destined for use in a digital movie screening system, the subtitle generating apparatus comprising: a storage unit having a movie subtitle file stored therein; a controller to generate an internal file on the basis of the subtitle file; and a subtitle processor to decode the internal file for generating a subtitle and combine the subtitle and a movie picture with each other, the subtitle file including a main file in which there are described information identifying a file of text data representing characters to be displayed as a subtitle of a movie and a file of image data representing the content of an image displayed as the movie subtitle along with control data for displaying the subtitle, one or more font files including font data on the text data, and one or more image files including the image data; the internal file being an integration of the main, font and image files, made by combining the described content of the main file with the substantive data of the font and image files; and the controller generating the internal file from the subtitle file prior to displaying the movie, wherein the storage unit stores the internal file, and the subtitle processor generates the subtitle without reading the subtitle file, wherein when identification information of a font file or an image file is included in the subtitle file, the controller reads the font file or the image file associated with the identification information and loads the data in the font file or the image file associated with the identification information into the internal file for a purpose of the integration.