Real-time captioning framework for mobile devices
AssigneeMedia Captioning Services
InventorRichard F. Pettinato
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Abstract
A system for providing caption information for one or more mobile devices includes a communication network, and one or more mobile devices connected to the communication network. The one or more mobile devices can include a cellular device, a personal digital assistant, or a wireless device. The system includes a captioning device to present caption data on a display, and a transcription device to transcribe data. The transcription device provides near real time delivery of the data transcription. The system uses the communication network to send text from the caption data to at least one of the mobile devices, while the system sends the caption data to one or more captioning devices simultaneously.
Claims22
A system for providing real time caption information for one or more mobile devices, the system comprising:
- a server for communicating to the one or more mobile devices;
- a stenocaptioning device configured for transcribing audio from an audio event simultaneously with an occurrence of the audio event, the stenocaptioning device further configured to generate caption data that comprises transcribed data and control code data;
- a captioning device to receive the caption data;
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- a software tool configured to remove the control code data from the caption data to generate text data,
- wherein the system is configured for transfer of the text data over the server to the one or more mobile devices and transfer of caption data to the captioning device,
- wherein the system is configured for transfers of the text data and caption data that occur coincidentally with the transcribing of audio from the audio event, and
- wherein the system is further configured for simultaneous transfer of the text data to the one or more mobile devices and the caption data to the captioning device.
A method for sending caption information to one or more mobile devices, the method comprising:
- transcribing audio to generate device-generated caption data having control codes, the transcribing audio comprises transcribing audio from an audio event simultaneously with an occurrence of the audio event;
- removing the control codes from the caption data to produce unencoded text data by removing control codes from a line 21 of a vertical blanking interval (VBI) of a video signal;
- sending the unencoded text data to one or more mobile devices over a communication network, the sending the unencoded text data comprises sending the unencoded text data to one or more mobile devices coincidentally with the transcribing audio from the audio event;
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- sending the caption data to a captioning device, the sending the caption data comprises:
- sending the unencoded text data to the one or more mobile devices simultaneously with the sending of the caption data to the captioning device;
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- sending the caption data to the captioning device coincidentally with the transcribing audio from the audio event.
A method for sending caption information to one or more mobile devices and a caption monitor, the method comprising:
- transcribing audio from a radio broadcast to generate device-generated caption data having control codes, the transcribing audio comprises transcribing audio from an audio event simultaneously with an occurrence of the audio event;
- removing the control codes from the caption data to produce unencoded text data;
- sending the unencoded text data to one or more mobile devices via a server, the sending the unencoded text data comprises sending the unencoded text data to one or more Internet-compatible mobile devices coincidentally with the transcribing audio from the audio event;
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- sending the caption data to a captioning monitor, the sending the caption data comprises:
- sending the caption data to an encoder;
- sending the caption data from the encoder to the captioning monitor;
- sending the unencoded text data to the one or more Internet-compatible mobile devices simultaneously with the sending of the caption data to the captioning monitor;
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- sending the caption data to the captioning monitor coincidentally with the transcribing audio from the audio event.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.