| US 7,519,278 B2 | ||
| Playback apparatus, program, playback method | ||
| Wataru Ikeda, Osaka (Japan); and Tomoyuki Okada, Nara (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Panasonic Corporation, Osaka (Japan) | ||
| Filed on Jun. 17, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/156,055. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2004-181400 (JP), filed on Jun. 18, 2004; and application No. 2004-195439 (JP), filed on Jul. 01, 2004. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0078301 A1, Apr. 13, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. H04N 5/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/91 (2006.01); H04N 7/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 386—125 [386/46; 386/95; 386/126] | 4 Claims |
| 1. A playback apparatus that plays back a text subtitle stream together with a moving picture, the playback apparatus comprising:
a register set storing therein a plurality of capability flags;
an inquiry unit operable to inquire of a user; and
a selection unit operable to select a text subtitle stream corresponding to a predetermined language from a plurality of text
subtitle streams, as a text subtitle stream to be played back, wherein
the plurality of capability flags respectively correspond to a plurality of languages, wherein each flag corresponding to
a language indicates whether or not the playback apparatus has a capability to process a characteristic of the corresponding
language,
the plurality of text subtitle streams include a text subtitle stream that has been eliminated from options for selection
by the selection unit because of having, as attribute, a language whose characteristic cannot be processed by the playback
apparatus,
the inquiry unit inquires of a user whether the user wishes to increase a number of languages in which subtitles are displayable
even if inconvenience may be caused; and
in a case where the user performs an affirmative operation in response to the inquiry by the inquiry unit, the text subtitle
stream that has, as attribute, the language whose characteristic cannot be processed by the playback apparatus, is included
in the selection options.
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