Method and apparatus for providing digital broadcasting service with 3-dimensional subtitle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9137515-B2
Application number	US-201113162976-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 17, 2011
Priority date	Jun 18, 2010
Publication date	Sep 15, 2015
Grant date	Sep 15, 2015

Abstract

A method and an apparatus for transmitting and receiving a broadcasting stream for providing a digital broadcasting service including a subtitle service are provided. A method of transmitting a data stream includes: generating a subtitle stream including basic viewpoint subtitle data and additional viewpoint subtitle data to reproduce a three-dimensional (3D) subtitle on a video screen on which video data is reproduced; determining 3D subtitle reproduction information for forming the 3D subtitle on the video screen based on the basic viewpoint subtitle data; and outputting a data stream by multiplexing a video stream including the video data, the 3D subtitle reproduction information, and the subtitle stream.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of transmitting a data stream for providing a digital broadcasting service, the method comprising:
generating a subtitle stream comprising basic viewpoint subtitle data to reproduce a three-dimensional (3D) subtitle with the basic viewpoint subtitle data and corresponding additional viewpoint subtitle data on a video screen on which video data is reproduced;
determining 3D subtitle reproduction information for forming the 3D subtitle on the video screen based on the basic viewpoint subtitle data; and
outputting a data stream by multiplexing a video stream comprising the video data, the 3D subtitle reproduction information, and the subtitle stream,
wherein the 3D subtitle reproduction information comprises 3D subtitle type information indicating a form of the 3D subtitle which is used to form the 3D subtitle based on the basic viewpoint subtitle data,
wherein the 3D subtitle type information indicates one of a first subtitle type forming the 3D subtitle by using the basic viewpoint subtitle data and distance information, and a second subtitle type forming the 3D subtitle by using the basic viewpoint subtitle data and the additional viewpoint subtitle data,
wherein the distance information indicates a distance between the basic viewpoint subtitle and the additional viewpoint subtitle for a plurality of dimensions, and comprises information about a direction of the distance between the basic viewpoint subtitle and the additional viewpoint subtitle, and
wherein the 3D subtitle reproduction information comprises information indicating a reproduction priority from between the first subtitle type and the second subtitle type.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the video stream further comprises a program map table (PMT) in which the 3D subtitle reproduction information is included.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the determining the 3D subtitle reproduction information comprises inserting the 3D subtitle reproduction information into a descriptor region of the PMT.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the subtitle data is identified by a subtitle page, and the basic viewpoint subtitle data and the additional viewpoint subtitle data are identified by different subtitle pages.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the 3D subtitle reproduction information comprises page identification information about the basic viewpoint subtitle data.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the 3D subtitle reproduction information further comprises at least one of page identification information about the additional viewpoint subtitle data corresponding to the basic viewpoint subtitle data, which forms the 3D subtitle together with the basic viewpoint subtitle data, and information about a distance between a basic viewpoint subtitle and an additional viewpoint subtitle on the video screen, in accordance with the 3D subtitle type information.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the information about the distance between the basic viewpoint subtitle and the additional viewpoint subtitle comprises location difference information indicating at least one of a depth difference between the basic viewpoint subtitle and the additional viewpoint subtitle, a disparity difference, and an offset.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein, in the outputting the data stream, the data stream is output in a transport stream packet.

9. A method of receiving a data stream providing a digital broadcasting service, the method comprising:
extracting a video stream comprising video data, three-dimensional (3D) subtitle reproduction information, and a subtitle stream by demultiplexing the received data stream;
extracting basic viewpoint video data and additional viewpoint video data of a 3D video from the video stream; and
extracting basic viewpoint subtitle data from the subtitle stream and determining basic viewpoint subtitle and additional viewpoint subtitle based on the basic viewpoint subtitle data and the 3D subtitle reproduction information to reproduce a 3D subtitle on a video screen on which the video data is reproduced,
wherein the 3D subtitle reproduction information comprises 3D subtitle type information indicating a form of the 3D subtitle which is used to form the 3D subtitle based on the basic viewpoint subtitle data,
wherein the 3D subtitle type information indicates one of a first subtitle type forming the 3D subtitle by using the basic viewpoint subtitle data and distance information, and a second subtitle type forming the 3D subtitle by using the basic viewpoint subtitle data and the additional viewpoint subtitle data,
wherein the distance information indicates a distance between the basic viewpoint subtitle and the additional viewpoint subtitle for a plurality of dimensions, and comprises information about a direction of the distance between the basic viewpoint subtitle and the additional viewpoint subtitle, and
wherein the 3D subtitle reproduction information comprises information indicating a reproduction priority from between the first subtitle type and the second subtitle type.

10. The method of claim 9 , further comprising composing and reproducing the basic viewpoint video data, the additional viewpoint video data, and the 3D subtitle, based on the basic viewpoint subtitle data and the 3D subtitle reproduction information.

11. The method of claim 9 , wherein the extracting the basic viewpoint subtitle data from the subtitle stream comprises detecting the basic viewpoint subtitle data by using a first subtitle page and detecting the additional viewpoint subtitle data by using a second subtitle page if the 3D subtitle type information indicates the second subtitle type.

12. The method of claim 9 , wherein, the extracting the 3D subtitle reproduction information comprises extracting the 3D subtitle reproduction information from a program map table (PMT) included in the video stream.

13. The method of claim 9 , wherein, if the 3D subtitle type information indicates the second subtitle type, the extracting the basic viewpoint subtitle data comprises:
extracting the basic viewpoint subtitle data forming a first page, from a first subtitle stream of the subtitle stream; and
extracting the additional viewpoint subtitle data forming a second page, from a second subtitle stream of the subtitle stream.

14. The method of claim 9 , wherein the extracting the 3D subtitle reproduction information comprises detecting page identification information about the basic viewpoint subtitle data from the 3D subtitle reproduction information.

15. The method of claim 9 , wherein the extracting the 3D subtitle reproduction information further comprises detecting at least one of page identification information about the additional viewpoint subtitle data corresponding to the basic viewpoint subtitle data, which forms the 3D subtitle together with the basic viewpoint subtitle data, and information about a distance between a basic viewpoint subtitle and an additional viewpoint subtitle, from the 3D subtitle reproduction information in accordance with the 3D subtitle type information.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the extracting the 3D subtitle reproduction information further comprises detecting information about a location difference indicating at least one of a depth difference between the basic viewpoint subtitle and the additional viewpoint subtitle, a disparity difference, and an offset, from the distance information between the basic viewpoint subtitle and the additional viewpoint subtitle.

17. The method of claim 12 , wherein the extracting the 3D subtitle reproduction information comprises ex

Assignees

• Lee Dae-Jong
• Jang Yong-Seok
• Cho Bong-Je
• Kim Jae-Seung
• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Lee Dae-Jong
• Jang Yong-Seok
• Cho Bong-Je
• Kim Jae-Seung

Classifications

• H04N13/194

  Transmission of image signals · CPC title

• H04N13/183 Primary

  On-screen display [OSD] information, e.g. subtitles or menus · CPC title

• H04N21/4884

  for displaying subtitles · CPC title

• H04N7/0885

  for the transmission of subtitles · CPC title

• H04N13/007 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic