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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2019
Saturn Licensing Llc, New York, NY (US);
Taketoshi Yamane, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasuaki Yamagishi, Kanagawa, JP;
Saturn Licensing LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
The present technology relates to a transmission device, a transmission method, a reception device, and a reception method that can enhance the accessibility for people with visual disabilities. The transmission device includes: a text-to-speech utterance metadata generation unit that generates text-to-speech utterance metadata about the text-to-speech utterance of display information as the producer intends; an electronic program information generation unit that generates electronic program information including the text-to-speech utterance metadata; and a transmission unit that transmits the electronic program information to the reception device capable of displaying the display information. The present technology can be applied, for example, to a transmitter capable of transmitting a digital broadcast signal.