Abstract: A storage medium including audio-video (AV) data and application programs for providing additional functions using the AV data includes: movie mode data for reproducing audio-visual (AV) data; program mode data including a plurality of application programs for providing additional functions using the AV data; system data for controlling the execution of the movie mode data and the program mode data; and management information for managing the execution of the application programs in a unit of title, wherein the system data comprises mode information indicating whether a reproduction mode of a title to be reproduced is a movie mode or a program mode.

Abstract: An information storage medium which stores data structures supporting multi-angles includes clip AV streams for respective angle data of multi-angle motion picture data. As additional information for each clip AV stream, clip information is recorded on a separate storage area from that of the clip AV streams. The clip information includes jumping-point information for jumping into another angle. Each of the clip AV streams may be recorded in a contiguous recording area, or divided into smaller interleaved units that are interleaved with units of the other clip AV streams.

Abstract: A method of reproducing interactive graphics data including menu data, the method including receiving a reproduction command of the interactive graphics data during reproduction of AV data, and changing a reproducing state of the AV data.

Abstract: A method of reproducing audio/video data in an interactive mode, including reading profile information indicating a version of interactive data; selecting and reading the interactive data that is manufactured with a version that is supported by a reproducing apparatus by referring to the read profile information; and interpreting and executing the read interactive data.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for reproducing multi-angle data in a seamless manner, even during a change of angle, and an information storage medium on which the multi-angle data is recorded. AV data divided into clips, which are recording units, is recorded on the information storage medium. Additional information regarding jump points is recorded on a space of the information storage medium other than where the clips are recorded. The apparatus for reproducing the multi-angle data includes a reading unit which reads data from the information storage medium, and a reproducing unit which reproduces the data read by the reading unit by searching for and reproducing clips corresponding to the read data when the read data is multi-angle data, and, if there is an angle change command, reproducing clips for a new angle from a jump point of the clip for the new angle.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for reproducing audio/visual data in an Enhanced Navigation mode, and an information storage medium thereof. The information storage medium stores audio/visual data, and at least one Enhanced Navigation application including at least one Enhanced Navigation file, the Enhanced Navigation file being reproduced together with the audio/visual data, wherein the Enhanced Navigation application includes a loading information file, which includes preload information specifying the location of the Enhanced Navigation file to be buffered before reproduction of the Enhanced Navigation application, as the Enhanced Navigation file. Accordingly, it is possible to guarantee seamless reproduction of audio/visual data for an Enhanced Navigation application.

Abstract: An image processing method and an image processing apparatus, the image processing method including: extracting background depth information and object depth information from meta data with respect to video data; creating a depth map for a background of a frame of the video data using the background depth information; and creating a depth map for an object of the frame of the video data by using the object depth information, wherein the object is a normal object that contacts the background or a highlighted object that does not contact the background.

Abstract: An image processing method including outputting a predetermined region of one or more frames of video data as a two-dimensional (2D) image and other regions of the one or more frames as a three-dimensional (3D) image by using meta data of the video data, where the meta data includes information to classify the frames into predetermined units.

Abstract: A video processing method and apparatus, the video processing method including: decoding two-dimensional video data; adjusting a brightness of the decoded two-dimensional video data; converting the brightness-adjusted two-dimensional video data into three-dimensional video data; and displaying the three-dimensional video data.

Abstract: A method of outputting three-dimensional (3D) images, the method including: generating first-perspective image data and second-perspective image data to display the 3D image by converting a same two-dimensional (2D) image data; adding additional information indicating a relationship between the first-perspective image data and the second-perspective image data to the first-perspective image data and/or the second-perspective image data; and outputting the first-perspective image data and the second-perspective image data.

Abstract: An image processing method and apparatus and an image generating method and apparatus, the image processing method to output a video data being a two-dimensional (2D) image as the 2D image or a three-dimensional (3D) image including: extracting information about the video data from metadata associated with the video data; and outputting the video data as the 2D image or the 3D image by using the extracted information about the video data.

Abstract: An image processing method and apparatus to output video data, which is a two-dimensional (2D) image, as a three-dimensional (3D) image, the image processing method including: when a current frame of the video data is classified as a new shot that is different from a shot a previous frame of the video data that is output temporally before the current frame, estimating a motion of the current frame by using one or more next frames of the video data that are output temporally after the current frame and are classified as the new shot; and outputting the current frame as the 3D image by using the estimated motion.

Abstract: A 3D video image processing method including: acquiring three-dimensional (3D) format information of a video image generated from video data to determine a 3D format of the video image; generating, from a first graphic image, a second graphic image corresponding to the determined 3D format of the video image using the 3D format information, the first graphic image being generated from graphic data; and overlaying the video image with the second graphic image.

Abstract: An information storage medium on which a plurality of titles are recorded, and a reproducing apparatus and method thereof. The information storage medium includes a plurality of titles which are reproduced as motion pictures and a plurality of units of attribute information that correspond to the titles and indicate whether a user can control a title to be reproduced. Therefore, efficient navigation can be ensured and the titles can be reproduced as a manufacturer of the information storage medium has planned.

Abstract: A storage medium including audio-video (AV) data and application programs for providing additional functions using the AV data includes: movie mode data for reproducing audio-visual (AV) data; program mode data including a plurality of application programs for providing additional functions using the AV data; system data for controlling the execution of the movie mode data and the program mode data; and management information for managing the execution of the application programs in a unit of title, wherein the system data comprises mode information indicating whether a reproduction mode of a title to be reproduced is a movie mode or a program mode.

Abstract: An information storage medium includes: AV data; interactive data, which is displayed along with an AV picture obtained from the AV data, and provides contents related to the AV picture, when the AV data is reproduced in an interactive mode; and language information, which indicates a language of contents contained in the interactive data. Therefore, it is possible to select an ENAV application to be first executed in the interactive mode and reproduces the selected ENAV application with a language readable by a user.

Abstract: A storage medium in which audio-visual data with event information is recorded, and a reproducing apparatus and reproducing method thereof, includes: audio-visual (AV) data; and event information to activate an event when a predetermined specific scene is reproduced while reproducing the AV data and to execute a predetermined program application corresponding to the activated event by synchronizing the program application with the specific scene. Accordingly, the storage medium may be controlled so that an application having a program function is synchronized with a specific scene of the AV data using the event information while reproducing the entirety of the AV data or a portion of the AV data.

Abstract: Provided are a method of reproducing a three-dimensional (3D) image using data stored in an optical recording medium. The method includes: reading 3D reproduction additional information from a recording medium to which at least one audio/video (AV) stream providing a plurality of related image signals and the 3D reproduction additional information for reproducing a 3D image using the plurality of related image signals are recorded; determining whether the plurality of related image signals are 3D image signals for reproducing a 3D image, based on the 3D reproduction additional information; and selectively reproducing a 3D image using the at least one AV stream and the 3D reproduction additional information based on a result of the determining.

Abstract: An information storage medium including graphic data and presentation information, and an apparatus and method of processing the graphic data are provided. The information storage medium includes the graphic data, page composition information which defines page composition of the graphic data, and the presentation information indicating when graphic screen data, which is composed with reference to the page composition information of the graphic data, is output to a display screen. Therefore, a graphic object is reusable in graphic data processing, and accordingly, a time taken to process the graphic data is reducible and memory area may be saved.

Abstract: A storage medium storing a multimedia image stream and a text-based subtitle stream, and a reproducing apparatus and a reproducing method therefor are provided to reproduce the text-based subtitle data stream recorded separately from the multimedia image stream such that the subtitle data can be easily produced and edited and a caption can be provided in a plurality of languages. The storage medium stores: image data; and text-based subtitle data to display a caption on an image based on the image data, wherein the subtitle data includes: one style information item specifying an output style of the caption; and a plurality of presentation information items that are displaying units of the caption, and the subtitle data is separated and recorded separately from the image data. Accordingly, a caption can be provided in a plurality of languages, and can be easily produced and edited, and the output style of caption data can be changed in a variety of ways.