Patent ID: 8767045

Claim:
An apparatus of transmitting stereoscopic image data comprising: an image data output unit configured to output stereoscopic image data including left-eye image data and right-eye image data about a certain program; and an image data transmitting unit configured to transmit a transport stream including the stereoscopic image data about the certain program output from the image data output unit, wherein the image data transmitting unit incorporates identification information indicating whether disparity data from a number of predetermined types is transmitted in the transport stream, the disparity data being used to add disparity to superimposed information to be superimposed on an image generated from the left-eye image data and the right-eye image data, in which the number of predetermined types include general-purpose disparity data and specific-purpose disparity data and in which the identification information is incorporated in an event information table (EIT) portion of the transport stream, such that the identification information in the EIT portion of the transport stream indicates whether or not general-purpose disparity data is transmitted in the transport stream and whether or not specific-purpose disparity data is transmitted in the transport stream.