Apparatus and method for providing object information in multimedia system

Abstract

An apparatus for providing object information in a multimedia system includes: a receiver configured to receive multimedia contents from a content provider; a parser configured to parse the received multimedia contents and store output information in a memory, the output information corresponding to playback time of objects existing inside the multimedia contents; a controller configured to receive playback time of the multimedia contents from an event generation device, synchronize with the event generation device using the received playback time of the multimedia contents, and receive event information when an event is generated by the event generation device; a comparator configured to retrieve output information corresponding to the event information from the memory; and a display unit configured to display the retrieved output information.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.