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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2002
Ian Michael Hosking, Cambridge, GB;
Aled Wynne Jones, Lode, GB;
Michael Raymond Reynolds, Royston, GB;
Peter John Kelly, Cambridge, GB;
Michael David Emmens, Shap, GB;
Ian Michael Hosking, Cambridge, GB;
Aled Wynne Jones, Lode, GB;
Michael Raymond Reynolds, Royston, GB;
Peter John Kelly, Cambridge, GB;
Michael David Emmens, Shap, GB;
Intrasonics S.A.R.L., Luxembourg, LU;
Abstract
A captioning system is provided for providing captions for audio and/or video presentations. The captioning system can be used to provide text captions or audio descriptions of a video presentation. A user device is provided for the captioning system having a receiver operable to receive the captions together with synchronization information and a caption output circuit which is operable to output the captions at the appropriate timings defined by the synchronization information. The user device is preferably a portable hand-held device such as a mobile telephone, PDA or the like.