JP2008199401A - Video image reproducing apparatus, and display color control method of the video image reproducing apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the display performance of a highlighted color for item selection and of a character color of sub-title by making the highlighted color for item selection and the character color of sub-title played-back from a disk and displayed on a screen change from regulated colors described in the disk in accordance with user's preference. <P>SOLUTION: Color information operated and designated by the user is stored as designated color information in a memory 14, a DVD management information analyzing part 13 detects at least either color information of the highlighted color for item selection or the character color of sub-title included in record information obtained by decoding a play-back signal of the disk 2 during playing-back the disk 2, a DVD play-back control part 7 replaces the detected color information with the designated color information of the memory 14 and changes at least either the highlighted color for item selection or the character color for sub-title played-back from the disk 2 and displayed on the screen from the regulated colors described in the disk in accordance with the user's preference. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a video playback device for playing back a disc recorded in the DVD video format and a display color control method of the device, and more particularly, to highlight color and subtitles for item selection of recorded information played back and decoded from the disc. Related to the control of the character color.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, various disks such as DVDs and CDs on which video / audio such as movies and sports records are recorded in the DVD video (DVD-Video) format (standard) are commercially available.

  The above-mentioned commercially available disc is played back by a video playback device (including a video recording / playback device) such as a DVD player or a DVD recorder, and the playback video is stored in a liquid crystal display device built in the video playback device or connected to the video playback device. Displayed on the screen.

  At that time, the user (viewer) selects the playback condition such as the language of the playback audio and the presence / absence of subtitles and determines the branching on the initial menu screen to be played back and the menu screen of the program (title). The item selection button (highlight button) is included (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

  When the presence of subtitles is selected, the subtitle characters are displayed superimposed on the corners of the program screen being reproduced.

By the way, the item selection buttons and subtitles are included in the recording information as sub-pictures (sub-pictures), and the highlight color and character color information are included in the recording information as navigation information.
JP 2004-133499 A (paragraphs [0003]-[0006], [0022]-[0027], FIGS. 1 to 4)

  In the case of the conventional apparatus, the highlight color of the item selection displayed on the screen when the disc is played and the character color of the subtitle are determined by the recorded information reproduced from the disc. Unable to meet the user's request for a desired color. Also, depending on the background color of the menu screen or program screen, the item selection highlight color or subtitle character color may not be noticeable and may be difficult to understand.

  The present invention allows the item selection highlight color and subtitle text color displayed on the screen reproduced from the disc to change from the specified color described on the disc according to the user's preference and background image color. The purpose is to improve the display performance of selected highlight colors and subtitle text colors.

  In order to achieve the above-described object, a video playback device of the present invention is a video playback device that plays back a disc recorded in a DVD video format, and a decoder that decodes recording information of the disc from a playback signal of the disc; Video reproduction processing means for reproducing a video signal from the recording information, color detection means for detecting color information of at least one of an item selection highlight color and subtitle character color included in the recording information, and an operation Designated color storage means for holding rewritable color information of at least one of set item selection highlight color and caption text color as designated color information, and color information detected by the color detection means Replace with the specified color information of the color storage means, and at least one of the highlight color of the item selection of the video signal and the character color of the caption It is characterized in that a color replacement unit for controlling the color of Teiiro information (claim 1).

  Also, the video device of the present invention is a video playback device for playing back a disc recorded in the DVD video format, a decoder for decoding the recorded information on the disc from the playback signal of the disc, and a video signal from the recorded information. Video reproduction processing means, color detection means for detecting color information of at least one of an item selection highlight color and subtitle character color included in the recording information, and a sub-picture included in the recording information A background color is determined from the color information of the background image, a designated color determining means for determining designated color information of a conspicuous color preset for the background image color, and color information detected by the color detecting means The designated color determining means replaces the designated color information, and at least one of the item selection highlight color and the caption character color of the video signal is the designated color. Is characterized in that a color replacement unit for controlling the distribution of color (Claim 2).

  Next, according to the display color control method of the video reproduction apparatus of the present invention, when reproducing a disc recorded in the DVD video format, the record information is decoded from the reproduction signal of the disc, and the item selection included in the record information is selected. Color information of at least one of highlight color and subtitle character color is detected, the detected color information is replaced with designated color information rewritable in designated color storage means, and reproduced from the recorded information It is characterized in that at least one of the highlight color of the item selection of the video signal and the character color of the caption is controlled to the color of the designated color information (claim 3).

  Also, the display color control method of the video playback apparatus of the present invention decodes the recorded information from the playback signal of the disc at the time of playback of the disc recorded in the DVD video format, and selects the item selection included in the recorded information. Color information of at least one of light color and subtitle character color is detected, background image color is determined from the color information of the background image of the sub-picture included in the recording information, and the background image color is determined in advance. The designated color information of the set conspicuous color is determined, the detected color information is replaced with the designated color information, the highlight color of the item selection of the video signal reproduced from the recorded information, the character color of the caption At least one of them is controlled to the color of the specified color information (claim 4).

  According to the first and third aspects of the invention, the color information of the favorite color set by the user for the color of at least one of the item selection highlight color and the subtitle character color is designated as the designated color information. The color storage means is rewritable. Then, at the time of disc reproduction, from the disc recording information obtained by decoding the disc reproduction signal, the color information of at least one of the highlight color of the item selection and the subtitle character color included in the recording information Is detected. Furthermore, the detected color information is replaced with the designated color information of the designated color storage means, and at least one of the highlight color of the item selection of the video signal reproduced from the recorded information and the character color of the subtitle is Controlled by the color of the specified color information.

  Accordingly, at least one of the highlight color of the item selection reproduced from the disc and displayed on the screen and the character color of the subtitle can be changed from the specified color described on the disc according to the user's preference, The display performance of the selected highlight color or the character color of the subtitle can be improved.

  According to the second and fourth aspects of the invention, at the time of reproducing the disc, the highlight color of the item selection included in the recorded information is obtained from the recorded information of the disc obtained by decoding the reproduced signal of the disc. The color information of at least one of the character colors of the subtitles is detected. Further, the background image color is determined from the color information of the background image of the sub-picture included in the recording information.

  Then, noticeable color information set in advance for the determined background image color is determined as the designated color information, and color information of at least one of the detected item selection highlight color and subtitle character color is determined. At least one of the item selection highlight color and the subtitle character color of the video signal reproduced from the recorded information is replaced with the designated color information of the designated color storage means to be a conspicuous color of the designated color information Be controlled.

  Therefore, change the highlight color of the item selection that is played back from the disc and displayed on the screen or the text color of the subtitles from the specified color described on the disc to a conspicuous color according to the background image color. This can improve the display performance of the highlight color for item selection and the text color of subtitles.

  Next, in order to describe the present invention in more detail, the embodiment will be described in detail with reference to FIGS.

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First, an embodiment corresponding to the first and third aspects of the invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a video processing circuit configuration of an example of a video playback apparatus 1 of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining operations, and FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of a screen for setting a highlight color.

  The video playback device 1 in FIG. 1 is a DVD player or DVD recorder having a DVD video playback function, and the playback target disk 2 is, for example, a commercially available DVD on which a movie or the like is recorded in the DVD video format.

  A system control processing unit having a microcomputer configuration that controls the entire video reproduction apparatus 1 based on a preset control program when the reproduction state of the disk 2 is brought about by automatic reproduction control by disk loading or reproduction operation of the operation unit 3 4 controls each part in the apparatus to a disc playback state.

  At this time, the recording of the rotating disk 2 on the turntable is read by the optical pickup of the pickup unit 5 and the reproduction signal (from time to time) of the disk 2 is transferred from the pickup unit 5 to the decoder 6 as in the known DVD player and DVD recorder. RF signal) is output.

  The decoder 6 performs a well-known MPEG2 digital signal reproduction process on the reproduction signal under the control of the DVD reproduction control unit 7, and the main picture (main video) and subpicture obtained by stream-separating the recording information of the disk 2. The video information of (sub-video) is decoded (decoded) and sent to the video reproduction processing unit 8.

  The main picture (main video) is video information of the main part of the main movie such as a movie of each program (title) recorded on the disc 2, and the sub picture (sub video) is a background image of each menu screen. It is mainly video information of still images such as video information, highlights of menu screens, subtitle screens, and subtitle video information. The audio information obtained by the stream separation is decoded by an audio decoder (not shown).

  The video reproduction processing unit 8 superimposes and synthesizes the video information of the main picture (main video) and sub-picture (sub-video) to process the video signal, reproduces the video signal of the recorded information on the disc 2 and outputs it to the display output unit 9. send.

  The display output unit 9 superimposes and synthesizes the video signal input from the video reproduction processing unit 8 and the video signal of the on-screen display (OSD) input from the OSD control unit 10 to form an output video signal. The output video signal is supplied to the display device 11 connected to the video playback device 1 and displayed on the screen.

  The video playback processing unit 8 forms the video playback processing means of the present invention. The audio signal reproduced from the audio information is output from, for example, a speaker of the display device 11.

  The decoder 6, DVD playback control unit 7, video playback processing unit 8, OSD control unit 10, sub-picture monitoring unit 12, DVD management information analysis unit 13, which will be described later, and the like may be configured with hardware circuits. In the case of this embodiment, similarly to the system control processing unit 4, it is realized by software of a microcomputer.

  Next, information recorded on the disk 2 will be described.

  The recording information of the disc 2 is information of a well-known hierarchical structure format of the DVD video (DVD-Video) standard, and is the top video manager (VMG) followed by the video title set of each program (title) such as a movie. (VTS).

  The VMG includes overall control information (VMGI) of the disc 2 and a video object set (VOBS) of a background picture of an initially displayed menu screen and a sub-picture of a menu selection button.

  Each VTS following VMG is preceded by control information such as the video title set menu (VTSM) and video object set (VOBS) on the program-specific menu screen, and the program chain (PGC) information for their playback. Followed by a video object set (VOBS) having a multi-cell structure of sub-picture information such as a program main picture, audio, item selection buttons and subtitles.

  The DVD playback control unit 7 separates the main picture, sub-picture, and audio information of each program from the recorded information according to the VMGI stream control information.

  In addition, the sub-picture of the item selection button displayed on the menu screen of the initial display, the menu screen of each program, and the sub-picture of the sub-title of each program generated in accordance with the selection with sub-titles are shown in FIG. The picture monitoring unit 12 monitors the decoding process of the sub picture of the decoder 6. Further, the DVD management information analysis unit 13 in FIG. 1 uses the item selection highlight color information included in the navigation information formed by the navigation pack of each cell of VMG or VTS for the item selection highlight color. (Highlight information) is analyzed and detected. Also, for subtitles, the subcode display control sequence table (SP_DCSQT) sub-picture display of sub-picture units (SPU) included as subtitle presentation data in VOBS includes subtitle pixel data color code and display area. And the color code determines the character color of the subtitle, the DVD management information analyzing unit 13 analyzes the color code of the pixel data of the subtitle of the navigation information related to the sub-picture display to obtain the character color information of the subtitle. To detect. The sub-picture monitoring unit 12 is the color detection unit of the present invention.

  When the rewritable non-volatile memory 14 in FIG. 1 does not hold the designated color information, which will be described later, of item selection highlight color and subtitle character color, the DVD playback control unit 7 plays back from the disc 2. The highlighted color of the selected item selection button and the character color of the subtitle are controlled to the original (specified) highlight color and character color based on the information reproduced from the disc 2.

  The memory 14 forms the designated color storage means of the present invention. The item selection highlight color information includes codes for designating a selection color, a decision color (action color), and a palette of contrasts. Based on the settings of these codes, the item selection highlight information displayed on the screen is displayed. The light color becomes a selected color before selecting a program, audio language, and the like, and changes to a determined color when selected and determined.

  On the other hand, in the present embodiment, when the user operates the operation unit 3 to select a setting mode such as a disc playback condition before playing the disc 2, etc., the system control processing unit 4 executes the setting mode program and sets the setting mode. Commands the OSD control unit 10 to display a menu screen.

  If the setting menu includes a “color information setting menu” and the user wants to set one or both of the highlight color of the item selection and the character color of the subtitle to a desired color, the user further operates the operation unit 3. For example, the screen P of the “color information setting menu” in FIG. 3 is displayed on the display device 11, and the video reproduction device 1 is set to the color information setting state of the highlight color / subtitle character color.

  FIG. 3 shows an example of a display screen when the highlight color for item selection and the character color of the caption can be specified and set.

  In addition, an item selection button, a subtitle text color number (corresponding to a color code), and a contrast number (corresponding to a contrast code) input window W are provided at the top of the screen P, and the corresponding color is displayed below the input window A list of numbers α and a list of numbers β corresponding to the brightness at each level of contrast are displayed.

  The user operates the number keys of the operation unit 3 while referring to the lists α and β, and inputs the favorite color and contrast number into each input window W. If the input color number and contrast number are acceptable, the screen is displayed. Place the cursor display (not shown) on the “OK” button A in the lower right and click. When redoing or canceling the input of the color number and contrast number, place the cursor on the “Cancel” button B to clear the contents of each input window W, and enter the color number and contrast number again for each input window W. To enter.

  Then, by clicking a button A with a cursor display (not shown) and clicking, the system control processing unit 4 changes the number of each input window W from each color code and each contrast code held in the built-in ROM or the like, for example. Corresponding color codes and contrast codes are read out, and these color codes and contrast codes are selected from at least one of the highlight color of item selection and the character color of subtitles that are set in the memory 14 via the DVD playback control unit 7. As the color information, i.e., the designated color information, it is written and held in a rewritable manner. At this time, the video reproduction device 1 is released from the highlight color information setting state.

  If only one of the item selection highlight color and the subtitle text color can be specified, the “color information setting menu” screen displays the menu selection button input window W of FIG. The screen of the list α or the subtitle input window W and the list β of FIG. 3 is displayed, and based on the display of those screens, the highlight color of item selection or the color of the subtitle character color is the same as described above. The code and the contrast code are rewritably written as specified color information in the memory 14 and held.

  Next, in this embodiment, when the DVD reproduction control unit 7 forms the color replacement means of the present invention and reproduces each program on the disc 2 with the designated color information written and held in the memory 14, The color replacement unit formed by the reproduction control unit 7 designates the color code and contrast code as the color information of the item selection highlight color and caption character color detected by the DVD management information analysis unit 13 as the color detection unit. The color code and the contrast code of the designated color information in the memory 14 as the color storage means are replaced, and the highlight color of the item selection button of the output video signal and the character color of the subtitle are controlled to the color designated by the user.

  Accordingly, when each program on the disc 2 is reproduced in a state where the designated color information is written and held in the memory 14, the video reproduction apparatus 1 performs the initial display of the menu screen and each program in steps S1 to S9 in FIG. Play the menu screen and the main part.

  In this case, when the DVD reproduction control unit 7 detects the decoding of VMG, the process proceeds from step S1 in FIG. 2 to step S2, and from the detection result of the DVD management information analysis unit 13, the initial display of the disk 2 is performed as described above. It is determined whether or not the recorded information on the menu screen includes the color information of the item selection highlight color and the subtitle character color.

  If the color information is included, the process proceeds to step S3, and the DVD playback control unit 7 determines the color of the designated color information for each of the item selection highlight color and the subtitle character color stored in the memory 14. Code selection and contrast code are read and separated from the recorded information of the disc 2 and the item selection button, subtitle highlight color code and contrast code of the subtitles, the specified color information color code and contrast code Replace with.

  Further, the process proceeds to step S4, and the item selection button in which the video reproduction processing unit 8 replaces the video signal of the background picture sub-picture of the initial display menu screen decoded by the decoder 6 with the highlight color specified by the user. The sub-picture video signal and the sub-picture video signal replaced with the user-specified text color are superimposed and combined, and at least one of the item selection highlight color and the sub-title text color is set to the user-specified color. An initial display menu screen is displayed on the display device 11.

  Then, the process returns from step S4 to step S5 to return to step S1 to proceed to the reproduction of each program. When the decoder 6 decodes the VTS, the process proceeds from step S1 to step S6 to step S7, and steps S7 to S9 are performed. In the same manner as S2 and S3, the menu screen and the main part of each program are reproduced and displayed on the display device 11, and at least one of the item selection highlight color and the subtitle character color is set to the color designated by the user.

  Accordingly, at least one of the highlight color of the item selection reproduced from the disk 2 and displayed on the screen and the character color of the subtitle can be freely changed from the specified color described in the disk 2 according to the user's preference. It is possible to improve the display performance of the highlight color for item selection and the character color of subtitles.

  Subtitles are displayed only when subtitles are set. Further, upon completion of reproduction of the disk 2, initialization processing such as erasure of storage in the memory 14 is performed.

  And, in the case of a configuration in which only one of the highlight color of item selection and the text color of subtitles can be displayed in a user-specified color, compared to a configuration in which both can be displayed in a user-specified color Simplification of control and processing can be achieved.

(Other embodiments)
Next, another embodiment corresponding to the second and fourth aspects of the invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

  4 is a flowchart for explaining the operation, and FIG. 5 is a detailed flowchart for detecting the background color information on the menu screen of FIG.

  The video playback device of this embodiment is different from the video playback device 1 of FIG. 1 of the above embodiment in that the DVD playback control unit 7 uses the background picture of the subpicture included in the recording information played back from the disc 2. A designated color determining means for determining a background image color from the color information, determining designated color information of a conspicuous color preset for the background image color, and rewritably holding it in the memory 14; The designated color determination means replaces the color information detected by the DVD management information analysis unit 13 with the designated color information held in the memory 14, and at least one of the highlight color of the item selection of the video signal and the character color of the subtitle. One of them is a color replacement means for controlling one of them to the color of the designated color information in the memory 14.

  The background picture of the sub-picture is specifically a menu picture for initial display and a menu picture for each program. These background pictures are often one scene of the moving picture of the main picture of each program and are common to the main background picture of the main picture. In addition, it is considered that the colors that stand out with respect to the background images are often the colors that stand out during the reproduction of the main part of each program.

  By the way, the background picture of the sub-picture of each menu screen is generally still picture image data. Therefore, the designated color determining means basically detects and averages the color and contrast for each sub-picture image data of the initial display menu screen and the background image of the menu screen of each program, The background color is determined from the average color and contrast.

  However, if the detection of the pixel unit is performed on the entire background image, the processing load is large and time is required. Therefore, in this embodiment, the pixel unit is selectively selected only for a plurality of areas in which the background image is set. Perform detection. Each area is an area that is considered to be easy to display background item selection buttons and subtitle characters and is set by experimentation, etc., but the item selection buttons and subtitle character attributes These display areas may be detected and set from the information. The average process is specifically a majority process, and the most frequently used color is set as the average color.

  Next, the designated color information of the conspicuous color with respect to the background image color detected by the above determination is, for example, a conspicuous color code and a contrast code determined by experiments with respect to a plurality of preselected reference colors, The color information of these codes is stored and held, and the color information of the conspicuous color set for the reference color close to the background image color is selected and determined.

  When the disc 2 is reproduced, the video reproduction apparatus of the present embodiment reproduces the initial display menu screen, the menu screen of each program, and the main part according to the procedures of steps Q1 to Q11 in FIG.

  That is, when the DVD playback control unit 7 detects the decoding of VMG, the process proceeds from step Q1 in FIG. 4 similar to step S1 in FIG. 2 to step Q2 in FIG. 4 similar to step S2 in FIG. From the detection result of the analysis unit 13, whether or not the color information of at least one of the item selection highlight color and the caption character color is included in the recording information of the menu screen of the initial display of the disc 2 as described above. Determine whether.

  If the color information of at least one of the highlight color of the item selection and the character color of the caption is included, the process proceeds to step Q3 in FIG. 4 and the designated color determination means of the DVD playback control unit 7 However, the background image color detection process in steps Z1 to Z3 in FIG. 5 is executed.

  In step Z1, for example, the levels and contrasts of the three primary colors of RGB are extracted as color information only for the designated pixels for each fixed pixel, for example, in each of the set multiple areas for the sub-picture of the background picture on the menu screen that is initially displayed. Next, in Step Z2, the color of the combination of the most appearing level and contrast is obtained from the color information of all the extracted designated pixels by majority processing. Further, in step Z3, the color obtained in step Z2 is determined as the background image color of the menu screen of the initial display.

  Then, the conspicuous color code and contrast code set in advance for the determined background image color are written in the memory 14 as designated color information, and the process of step Q3 in FIG. 4 is terminated.

  Next, in steps Q4 and Q5 in FIG. 4 corresponding to steps S3 and S4 in FIG. 2, the color code and contrast code of the designated color information held in the memory 14 are read out and separated from the recording information on the disk 2. The video reproduction processing unit 8 replaces the color code and contrast code of at least one of the decoded item selection button highlight color and subtitle character color with the color code and contrast code of the specified color information, respectively. Thus, the video signal of the sub-picture of the background picture of the initial display menu screen decoded by the decoder 6 is replaced with the video signal of the item selection button replaced with the highlight color of the specified color information and the character color of the specified color information. Subtitle video sub-picture video signals are superimposed and combined to reduce the item selection highlight color and subtitle text color. It displays an initial display menu screen that is automatically corrected even either in a conspicuous color against the background image color on the display device 11.

  Then, the process returns from step Q5 to step Q6 to step Q1 to proceed to the reproduction of each program. When the decoder 6 decodes the VTS, the process proceeds from step Q1 to step Q7 to step Q8, and steps Q8 to Q11 are performed. Similar to Q2 to Q5, the menu screen and the main part of each program are reproduced and displayed on the display device 11, and at least one of the item selection highlight color and the subtitle character color is set to the background image color. Make it stand out.

  Therefore, at least one of the highlight color of the item selection reproduced from the disk 2 and displayed on the screen and the character color of the subtitle is a conspicuous color from the specified color described on the disk 2 according to the background image color. It changes automatically and the display performance of the highlight color of the item selection and the character color of the subtitle can be improved.

  The present invention is not limited to both of the above-described embodiments, and various modifications other than those described above can be made without departing from the spirit thereof. For example, the display color of the above-described one embodiment The control configuration and the display color control configuration of the other embodiment may be provided so that the user can select both controls.

  Further, for example, a blinking color may be included as a highlight color for item selection that can be selected by the user of one embodiment or a character color for subtitles.

  Furthermore, it goes without saying that the configuration of each part in the apparatus may be different from those of the both embodiments. In addition, the configuration of the screen for setting the designated color information of the one embodiment may be any, and in the other embodiments, the background image color detection method varies depending on the data structure of the background image. Should be set. Next, the shape of the item selection button, the display position on the screen, the number of displays, etc. may be any. Also, the size of the subtitle characters, the typeface, and the like may be any.

  The present invention can be applied to the control of the highlight color and item text color of item selection of a video playback apparatus that plays back various discs recorded in the DVD video format.

It is a block diagram of the video processing of the video reproduction apparatus of one Embodiment of this invention. FIG. 2 is a flowchart of display color control at the time of disc reproduction of FIG. It is explanatory drawing of the screen which designates and sets the highlight color of item selection of FIG. 1, and the character color of a subtitle. It is a flowchart of the display color control at the time of the disc reproduction | regeneration of other embodiment of this invention. 5 is a detailed flowchart of background image color detection in FIG. 4.

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2 Disc 3 Operation unit 4 System control processing unit 6 Decoder 7 DVD playback control unit 8 Video playback processing unit 10 OSD control unit 12 Sub picture monitoring unit 13 DVD management information analysis unit 14 Memory

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  In a video playback device for playing back a disc recorded in the DVD video format, a decoder for decoding recorded information on the disc from a playback signal of the disc, video playback processing means for playing back a video signal from the recorded information, and the recording Color detection means for detecting color information of at least one of item selection highlight color and subtitle character color included in information, and at least one of item selection highlight color and subtitle character color for which operation has been set Designated color storage means for rewritably holding one of the color information as designated color information, and replacing the color information detected by the color detection means with the designated color information of the designated color storage means, A color replacement unit that controls at least one of a highlight color of item selection and a character color of the subtitle to a color of the designated color information. Video playback device that.   In a video playback device for playing back a disc recorded in the DVD video format, a decoder for decoding recorded information on the disc from a playback signal of the disc, video playback processing means for playing back a video signal from the recorded information, and the recording A color detection means for detecting color information of at least one of an item selection highlight color and a subtitle character color included in the information, and a background image from the color information of the subpicture background image included in the recording information; A designated color determining means for determining a color and determining designated color information of a conspicuous color preset for the background image color; and the designated color determining means determining the color information detected by the color detecting means Color replacement that replaces with the designated color information and controls at least one of the highlight color of the item selection of the video signal and the character color of the subtitle to the color of the designated color information Video reproducing apparatus characterized by comprising a stage.   When reproducing a disc recorded in the DVD video format, the recording information is decoded from the reproduction signal of the disc, and the color information of at least one of the highlight color of the item selection and the subtitle character color included in the recording information And the detected color information is replaced with designated color information rewritably stored in the designated color storage means, and the highlight color of the item selection of the video signal reproduced from the recorded information and the character color of the caption A display color control method for a video reproducing apparatus, wherein at least one of the colors is controlled to a color of the specified color information.   When reproducing a disc recorded in the DVD video format, the recording information is decoded from the reproduction signal of the disc, and the color information of at least one of the highlight color of the item selection and the subtitle character color included in the recording information The background image color is determined from the color information of the background image of the sub-picture included in the recording information, and the designated color information of the conspicuous color preset for the background image color is determined and detected. The color information is replaced with the designated color information, and at least one of the item selection highlight color and the subtitle character color of the video signal reproduced from the recorded information is controlled to the color of the designated color information. A display color control method for a video reproducing apparatus.

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