Patent Document ID: RE42441
Application ID: 10606362

Base Claim:
1. A character display apparatus for an optical disc player, the apparatus comprising: a detection and separation unit to detect if recorded data on an optical disc includes including a first font data from said optical disc , and to separate said first font data from the detected recorded data detected if the first font data is recorded on the optical disc ; a first memory area to store the first font data separated and output from said detection and separation unit; a second memory area to store a second font data, wherein the first and second memory areas are separated from one another; a character generation unit to selectively generate character signals of for characters of a selected language for a subtitle by using to have a font defined by the first font data stored in said memory if the first font data recorded on the optical disc is selected and to have a font defined by the second font data if the second font data stored in the second memory is selected; and a controller coupled to the character generation unit, to cause the character generation unit to selectively generate the character signals of a language for the characters of the selected language for character subtitle processing selected from multiple languages multi-languages to be used in the character subtitle processing in multilingual character subtitle processing on the basis of font data, at least some of which are recorded in the optical disc , wherein the first and second font data are separate from the characters of the selected language before the character generation unit generates the character signals of the selected language .

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Claim 2:
2. The character display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said detection and separation unit comprises: a pickup to detect the recorded data including said first font data from said optical disc, and to output the detected recorded data detected as output signals; a high frequency processing unit to process the output signals of said pickup, and to output video data signals; and a data separation unit to separate said first font data from the output video data signals of said high frequency processing unit, and to output the separated first font data, wherein said controller controls said high frequency processing unit, said data separation unit, said memory and said character generation unit.