Closed caption decoder capable of displaying caption information at a desired display position on a screen of a television receiver

• US 5,477,274 A
• Filed: 02/17/1994
• Issued: 12/19/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/1992
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sanyo Electric Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sanyo Electric Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Akiyoshi, Koichiro, Kinoshita, Shuichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Kostak, Victor R.
• Application Number:
  US08/198,034
• Time in Patent Office: 670 Days
• Field of Search: 348/468, 348/461, 348/460, 348/564, 348/563
• US Class Current: 348/468
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4884 for displaying subtitles
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/0885 for the transmission of subtitles

Abstract

The display address contained in the caption signal sent from the sending side is converted into a desired display address by a closed caption decoder at the receiving side. The display position of the caption information is moved at the receiving side in order to prevent the superimposed information incorporated in the video signal from being overlapped with the caption information.

Claims

1. A closed caption decoder, comprising:

means for detecting a display address contained in a caption signal multiplexed on a video signal;

means for designating, based on a detection of said display address, a display position of the caption information on a screen; and

means for converting the detected display address into a display address corresponding to the designated display position.

2. A television receiver comprising a closed caption decoder according to claim 1, wherein the caption information is displayed on a screen together with an image.

3. A closed caption decoder, comprising:

means for extracting an encoded caption signal multiplexed during a vertical retrace period of a video signal;

means for decoding the extracted caption signal;

means for designating, based on a detection of a display address, a display position of the caption information on a screen; and

means for converting a display address contained in the caption signal into said display address corresponding to the designated display position.

4. A closed caption decoder, comprising:

means for detecting a display address contained in a caption signal multiplexed on a video signal;

means for detecting the display period of the caption information based on a result of a display address detection;

means for deciding whether character information is contained in the video signal during the display period of the caption information; and

means for converting the detected display address into a display address different from that for the character information in the video signal in the case where decision is made that the character information is contained in the video signal.

5. A television receiver comprising a closed caption decoder according to claim 4, wherein the caption information is displayed on a screen together with an image.

6. A closed caption decoder comprising:

means for extracting an encoded caption signal multiplexed during a vertical retrace period of a video signal;

means for decoding the extracted caption signal;

means for detecting the display period of the caption information from the decoding result;

means for deciding whether character information is contained in the video signal during the display period of the caption information; and

means for converting a display address contained in the caption signal into a display address corresponding to the display position not overlapped with the display position of the character information in the video signal in the case where decision is made that the character information is contained in the video signal.