Sony Corporation

Hiroyasu Furuse

Hiroshi Nakano

Tsutomu Yamamoto

Yoshihisa Gonno

Akifumi Mishima

For generation of a subtitle in a digital movie screening system, it is essential to reduce the burden of processing the subtitle when screening a movie. There is provided a subtitle generating apparatus destined for use in a digital movie screening system, the subtitle generating apparatus, which includes a storage unit having a movie subtitle file stored therein, a controller to generate an internal file on the basis of the subtitle file, and a subtitle processor to decode the internal file for generating a subtitle and combine the subtitle and a movie picture with each other, the subtitle file consisting of a main file in which there are described information identifying a file of text data representing characters to be displayed as a subtitle of a movie and a file of image data representing the content of an image displayed as the movie subtitle along with control data for displaying the subtitle, one or more font files including font data on the text data, and one or more image files including the image data, the internal file being an integration of the main, font and image files, made by combining the described content of the main file with the substantive data of the font and image files, and the controller generating the internal file from the subtitle file prior to displaying the movie.

Subtitle generating apparatus and method

A lamp driving apparatus configured to drive a plurality of types of lamps, each of the plurality of lamps is attached with lamp identification information for uniquely identifying the lamp. The lamp driving apparatus includes: a lamp power supply configured to drive the lamp; a read circuit configured to read the lamp identification information from the lamp; and a control circuit configured to control the lamp power supply on the basis of a result of identification obtained by use of the read lamp identification information. The control circuit, if the lamp is found to be authorized, makes the lamp power supply drive the lamp.

Lamp driving apparatus and control method thereof

A digital movie screening system in which a movie subtitle can easily be used with protection of the copyright on the subtitle. A character information generating apparatus includes an encryption unit to encrypt a font file including data for displaying characters in a specific font, and a character information file generator to generate a character information file including a main file describing therein text data representing the content of characters to be displayed on a display unit and control data for displaying the characters and a font file encrypted by the encryption unit. The character information file generator also describes, in the main file, information on whether a font file indicated with a pointer, if any, described in the main file is an encrypted file.

Character information generating apparatus and method, character information displaying apparatus and method, digital movie screening method and system, and subtitle display apparatus

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Kanagawa, Japan

Hiroyasu Furuse