System and method for using a hand held device to display readable representation of an audio track

• US 20020140855A1
• Filed: 07/13/2001
• Published: 10/03/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Universal Electronics, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Universal Electronics, Inc.
• Inventors: Huang, Steve LanPing, Hayes, Patrick H., Presseau, Joyce M.
• Granted Patent: US 7,102,688 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/465
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/02 using a radio link
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/21 Programming remote control devices via third means
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/92 Universal remote control
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 23/04 using light waves, e.g. infrared
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/202 by remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41265 having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42204 User interfaces specially adapted for controlling a client device through a remote control device; Remote control devices therefor constructive details of casings for the remote control device H01H9/0235; user interfaces for controlling a tuning device of a television receiver through a remote control H03J9/00; remote control of peripheral devices connected to a television receiver through the remote control device of the television receiver H04B1/205
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4431 characterized by the use of Application Program Interface [API] libraries
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4438 Window management, e.g. event handling following interaction with the user interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4882 for displaying messages, e.g. warnings, reminders arrangements for providing short real-time information to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4884 for displaying subtitles

Abstract

A system and method for using a hand held device having a display to display a readable representation of an audio track of a playing media such as, for example, a television program, a compact disc, or digital video disc. In one embodiment, the system generally includes a consumer appliance for playing the media wherein the consumer appliance is adapted to transmit a signal including data that is a representation of the audio track. In a further embodiment, the representation of the audio track can be downloaded to the hand-held device from an external source such as, for example, a Web site on the Internet.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a hand-held device having a display; and

a consumer appliance having an application for reading closed captioning information from a video signal;

wherein the hand-held device and the consumer appliance are adapted to communicate such that the consumer appliance can transmit signals indicative of the closed captioning information to the hand-held device and the hand-held device can display a representation of the closed captioning information in the display.

2. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the hand-held device comprises a memory for storing the closed captioning information and a program for replaying the stored closed captioning information.

3. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the closed captioning information is formatted using a mark-up language and the hand-held device comprises a browser application for displaying the closed captioning information in the display.

4. The system as recited in claim 1, wherein the hand-held device comprises a remote-control having a memory in which is stored command codes for commanding the operation of a plurality of different consumer appliances.

5. A system, comprising:

a hand-held device having a display; and

a karaoke device having an application for reading song lyrics from a recorded media;

wherein the hand-held device and the karaoke device are adapted to communicate such that the karaoke device can transmit signals indicative of the song lyrics to the hand-held device and the hand-held device can display a representation of the song-lyrics in the display.

6. A system, comprising:

a hand-held device having a display; and

a consumer appliance having an application for reading movie sub-titles from a recorded media;

wherein the hand-held device and the consumer appliance are adapted to communicate such that the consumer appliance can transmit signals indicative of the movie sub-titles to the hand-held device and the hand-held device can display a representation of the movie sub-titles in the display

7. The system as recited in claim 6, wherein the recorded media is a digital video disc.

8. A system, comprising:

a consumer appliance for playing a media; and

a hand-held device having a display and an associated memory storing a readable representation of an audio track of the media adapted to display the readable representation of the audio track as the consumer appliance plays the media.

9. The system as recited in claim 8, wherein the media is a video program and the representation of the audio track comprises sub-titles.

10. The system as recited in claim 9, wherein the consumer appliance is a digital video disc player.

11. The system as recited in claim 8, wherein the media is a compact disc and the representation of the audio track comprises song lyrics.

12. The system as recited in claim 8, wherein the media is an audio broadcast and the consumer appliance is a radio receiver.

13. The system as recited in claim 8, further comprising a Web site from which the representation of the audio track is downloadable into the memory.

14. The system as recited in claim 8, further comprising a kiosk from which the representation of the audio track is downloadable into the memory.

15. The system as recited in claim 8, wherein the memory comprises a removable smart card.

17. The method as recited in claim 16, further comprising the step of storing the extracted closed captioning information in memory and the steps of loading and transmitting are performed on a periodic basis.

18. The method as recited in claim 16, wherein the steps of loading and transmitting are performed in response to a request received from the device having the display.

20. The method as recited in claim 19, wherein the hand-held device comprises a browser application for displaying a mark-up language page received from the consumer appliance in which is placed the closed captioning information.

21. The method as recited in claim 19, further comprising the step of periodically requesting the consumer appliance to transmit the closed captioning information.

22. The method as recited in claim 19, further comprising the step of storing the closed captioning information and the step of displaying is performed in response to activation of a key associated with the hand-held device.

24. The readable media as recited in claim 23, wherein the instructions perform the further step comprising storing the extracted closed captioning information in memory and wherein the steps of loading and transmitting are performed on a periodic basis.

25. The readable media as recited in claim 24, wherein the steps of loading and transmitting are performed in response to a request received from the device having the display.

27. The readable media as recited in claim 26, wherein the hand-held device comprises a browser application for displaying a mark-up language page received from the consumer appliance in which is placed the closed captioning information.

28. The readable media as recited in claim 27, wherein the instructions further perform the step of periodically requesting the consumer appliance to transmit the closed captioning information.

29. The readable media as recited in claim 27, wherein the instructions further perform the step of storing the closed captioning information and wherein the step of displaying is performed in response to activation of a key associated with the hand-held device.

16. In a consumer appliance, a method for displaying closed captioning information, comprising:

extracting the closed captioning information from a video signal;

loading the extracted closed captioning information into a mark-up language page; and

transmitting the mark-up language page to a device having a display.

19. In a hand-held device having a display operable in connection with a consumer appliance having an application for reading closed captioning information from a video signal, a method for displaying information related to a viewed program, comprising:

transmitting to the consumer appliance a request to receive information indicative of the closed captioning information; and

displaying received information indicative of the closed captioning information in the display.

23. A readable media having instructions for displaying closed captioning information, the instructions performing steps comprising:

extracting the closed captioning information from a video signal;

loading the extracted closed captioning information into a mark-up language page; and

transmitting the mark-up language page to a device having a display.

26. A readable media having instructions for displaying information related to a viewed program, comprising:

transmitting to a consumer appliance a request to receive information indicative of closed captioning information; and

displaying received information indicative of the closed captioning information in a display of a hand-held device.