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Synchronizing audio and text of multimedia segments

  • US 20020055950A1
  • Filed: 04/23/2001
  • Published: 05/09/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/23/1998
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method for synchronizing a multimedia segment of a signal stream, the signal stream having an audio component and a closed caption text component, the method comprising:

  • locating in the text component a marker text string, the marker text string being one of a set of text strings, each text string in the set made up of at least one word, phrase, or character;

    generating an audio pattern representative of the located marker text string;

    locating the audio pattern in the audio component; and

    temporally aligning the closed caption text component with the audio pattern in the audio component.

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