Patent ID: 11863806
Assignee: ROVI GUIDES, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method for correcting an erroneous term in on-screen caption text of a media asset, comprising:
identifying an erroneous term in a text segment of the on-screen caption text;
extracting a video frame from a video stream of the media asset corresponding to the text segment;
identifying a non-textual visual object in the video frame associated with the erroneous term, wherein the non-textual visual object comprises an image of a person;
analyzing the non-textual visual object in the video frame, using image recognition, to determine a contextual term associated with the erroneous term, wherein the contextual term comprises the identity of the person;
accessing a data structure to identify a candidate correction for the erroneous term based on the contextual term and a portion of the text segment; and
replacing the erroneous term in the text segment of the closed captioning text with the candidate correction.