Patent ID: 8826111

Claim:
A receiving apparatus allowing display of final superimposed scenes from content information according to a predetermined specification, the receiving apparatus comprising: a receiver adapted to receive a shared object control information used for forming final superimposed scenes that are formed by combining two or more shared scenes and that include arbitrary objects, wherein the shared scenes are the virtual scenes which are created by using two or more arbitrary objects; the shared object control information being formed from control information described in accordance with an internal format based on the two or more shared scenes, the two or more shared scenes being virtual scenes formed of individual graphical user interface screens in accordance with the internal format and used to form the final superimposed scenes, the final superimposed scenes being formed by superimposition of the individual graphical user interface screens of the two or more shared scenes, each of the individual graphical user interface screens of the two or more shared scenes including two or more of the arbitrary objects, the arbitrary objects being user-selectable command objects that are separately controllable independent of the shared scenes in which the arbitrary objects are displayed in accordance with the predetermined specification; and a processor comprising instructions for processing the shared object control information to form the final superimposed scenes in which the shared objects are specified for display at the same time in the final superimposed scenes in accordance with the predetermined specification, wherein the superimposed final scenes are described by the combination of the individual graphical user interface screens of the two or more shared scenes and one or more of the shared objects based on the internal format, and the control information is described based on one or more of the shared objects without the shared scenes.