Patent ID: 8737811

Claim:
A playback device, comprising: a video decoder operable to perform a stereoscopic playback by decoding a stereoscopic video stream; a subtitle decoder operable to display a subtitle in a predetermined layout by decoding a subtitle stream; a drawing renderer operable to draw a built-in GUI associated with the playback device and not read from a computer-readable medium; and an overlayer operable to overlay the stereoscopic playback performed by the video decoder, the subtitle displayed by the subtitle decoder, and the built-in GUI drawn by the drawing renderer, wherein the predetermined layout of the subtitle to be displayed is one of a normal layout, a top arrangement layout that avoids overlapping of the stereoscopic playback and the subtitle by providing an area for displaying the subtitle only in an upper part of a screen, and a bottom arrangement layout that avoids overlapping of the stereoscopic playback and the subtitle by providing the area for displaying the subtitle only in a lower part of the screen, and the drawing renderer includes a layout selector operable to automatically select the top arrangement layout as a layout of the built-in GUI when the top arrangement layout is selected as the predetermined layout of the subtitle to be displayed, and to automatically select the bottom arrangement layout as the layout of the built-in GUI when the bottom arrangement layout is selected as the predetermined layout of the subtitle to be displayed.