Patent ID: 8239896

Claim:
In a digital broadcast receiving device configured to receive programming and data over a plurality of digital broadcast channels, a method for accessing ancillary information associated with one or more images embedded in a digital broadcast data stream, the method comprising: a) receiving a digital broadcast signal, wherein the digital broadcast signal includes data representing one or more video images and control data associated with one or more visual components of the one or more video images, wherein the control data includes different control data components for different corresponding visual components within the same video image, wherein the digital broadcast signal includes data representing one or more video image groups, wherein each video image group includes a group header and a plurality of video images, wherein the control data associated with a corresponding video image group is included in the group header for that video image group, wherein the video images within a given video image group of the one or more video image groups are related to each other by a context that depends on visual components within the video images in the given video image group; b) presenting the one or more video images on a video display device associated with the digital broadcast receiving device; c) using one or more of the control data components for one or more corresponding visual components to present or store a perceptible indication that ancillary information is associated with the one or more corresponding visual components in conjunction with presenting the one or more video images with the display device; and d) using the one or more control data components to present or store the ancillary information with the display device in response to an input signal.