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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2021
Applicant:
Comcast Cable Communications, Llc, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/488 (2011.01); H04L 65/60 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4884 (2013.01); H04L 65/60 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for captions data handling, conversion between formats, and presentation are described herein. Segments of a content item may contain captions data in different formats, where conversion between one format to another may be required when one format is not compatible with a computing device or presentation settings. The captions data may be converted to a compatible format(s). The embedded captions data may be converted on a segment-by-segment basis and/or in real-time for streaming content.