Selective sign language location
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsPeter Shintani, Brant Candelore
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Abstract
Content substitution and/or picture-in-picture technology is used to provide a sign language window that provides a sign language interpretation of audio content in main program audio/video content. The sign language window can be selectively disabled by a user that does not wish to view the sign language video. Also, in some implementations, the user can move the sign language window to a desired location on the display. The desired location may be one of a plurality of pre-defined display locations. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.
Claims19
An apparatus for selectively supplementing main program video content with a sign language video content, comprising:
- a video receiver device configured to receive data representing audio and a frame of video content, the data having a plurality of packet identifiers (PIDs) where a first PID is associated with main program video content, and where a second PID is associated with sign language video content;
- where the main program video content comprises frames of video content in which a plurality of locations are processed to accept substitution of the sign language video content;
- a user interface forming a part of the video receiver device, configured to produce a signal indicative of selection of a first location of the plurality of locations for display of the sign language video content;
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- a content circuit forming a part of the video receiver device;
- where responsive to the signal indicative of the selection, the content circuit is configured to present at the first location the sign language video content to produce a video frame having a sub-frame containing the sign language video content at the first location;
- at least one scaler to re-scale video information, wherein the video receiver device is configured to, responsive to a signal to view the sign language video content, enable a picture-in-picture (PIP) circuit, the video receiver device also being configured to disable the video scaler when the PIP circuit is enabled, and wherein the video receiver device is configured to, responsive to a signal not to view the sign language video content, disable the picture-in-picture (PIP) circuit and enable the video scaler.
A method of selectively supplementing main program video content with a sign language video content, comprising:
- at a video receiver device, receiving data representing audio and at least one frame of video content, the data having a plurality of packet identifiers (PIDs) where a first PID is associated with main program video content, and where a second PID is associated with sign language video content;
- where the main program video content comprises frames of video content having a plurality of locations to accept the sign language video content;
- at the video receiver device, receiving a signal indicative of a selection of a first location of the plurality of locations for display of the sign language video content;
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- responsive to receiving the signal indicative of the selection of the first location, at a content circuit within the video receiver device, presenting in the first location the sign language video content to produce a video frame having a sub-frame containing the sign language video content at the first location;
- responsive to a signal to view the sign language video content, disabling a video scaler;
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- responsive to a signal not to view the sign language video content, enabling the video scaler.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.