US 2014/0208351 A1Published application

Video processing apparatus, method and server

AssigneesSony Europe Limited, Sony Corporation

InventorNigel MOORE

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Abstract

A video processing apparatus comprises a controller and a communications unit that receives video data representing a video image for display from a source and receives first data representing text to be reproduced within the video image, the text being in accordance with a first language. The controller is configured to communicate the first data to a remote terminal using the communications unit. The remote terminal converts the text from the first language to a second language, and to form second data to receive second data representing the text in the second language. The video processing apparatus further includes a video processor that is configured to process the video data and the second data to generate display signals for reproducing the video images with the text according to the second language inserted onto the video images, the text associated with the video images.

Claims17

Dependent claims

A video processing apparatus comprising

a communications unit circuitry configured
to receive video data representing the video images for display from a source,
to receive first data representing text to be reproduced within the video image, the text being in accordance with a first language,
a controller circuitry configured
to communicate the first data to a remote terminal using the communications unit, the remote terminal being configured to convert the text from the first language to a second language to form second data,
to receive the second data from the remote terminal representing the text in the second language, and a video processor circuitry configured
to process the video data and the second data to generate display signals for reproducing the video images with the text according to the second language inserted onto the video images, the text being associated with the video images and wherein the communications unit circuitry is configured to receive control data providing an indication of an area of the video images in which the text data according to the first language is to be displayed and the controller is configured to generate the video signals so that the text in the second language falls within the area for the text and
wherein the controller circuitry is configured to adapt the text according to the second language in accordance with the area available for the text in the second language by changing the font size of the text of the second language and by one or more of dropping words from the second language, abbreviating words in the second language or wrapping words around to reduce space.

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A remote server for translating text for inserting into video images, the remote server being configured

to receive first data from a video processing apparatus, the first data representing text to be reproduced within video images, the text being in accordance with a first language,
to generate second data representing the text converted from the first language to a second language, the generating the second data including adapting the text of the second language as the text in the second language is to be displayed within the video images with respect to the text of the first language, and
to transmit the second data representing the text in the second language to the video processing apparatus for display in the video images with the text according to the second language inserted into the video images, and wherein the remote server is configured
to receive an indication of an area of the video images in which the text data according to the first language is to be displayed within the video images, and
to adapt the text in the second language so that the text in the second language falls within the area for the text allocated for sub-titles.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/055,399Filed 16 Oct 2013
Priority: GB 1301194.523 Jan 2013
Published: 24 Jul 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

H04N 21/4856
End-user interface for client configuration: for language selection, e.g. for the menu or subtitles
H04N 21/4314
Involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations: for fitting data in…
H04N 21/4884
Data services, e.g. news ticker: for displaying subtitles
H04N
Pictorial communication

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