Patent ID: 11875133
Assignee: ROVI GUIDES, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method for providing modified subtitles comprising:
obtaining, using control circuitry, subtitles for a media content item;
parsing the subtitles, using the control circuitry, to categorize character components of the subtitles;
determining, using the control circuitry, whether a character component of the subtitles is replaceable with an image by:
querying the character component in an image search;
analyzing the results of the search to determine a level of variance between the images returned as part of the search; and
determining that the character component is replaceable when the level of variance is less than a threshold level of variance;

in response to determining that the character component of the subtitles is replaceable with an image, determining, using the control circuitry, whether replacement of the character component of the subtitles by an image component will make the subtitles more understandable by:
determining a comprehension difficulty rating of the character component; and
determining that the character component is difficult to understand when the comprehension difficulty rating of the character component exceeds a threshold comprehension difficulty rating;

in response to determining that replacement of the character component of the subtitles by an image component will make the subtitles more understandable, selecting, from memory, an image component corresponding to the character component;
replacing, using the control circuitry, the character component of the subtitles with the image component to generate modified subtitles; and
displaying the modified subtitles at user equipment.