Patent ID: 9544656
Date: 2017-01-10
CPC Classifications: G06K,H04N

Claim:
1. A method for selecting a closed captioning language track, the method comprising: capturing an image or video of a user while the user is performing a first gesture of a sign language, the image or video of the user comprising a first pixel map; accessing a database comprising a plurality of entries, each entry comprising a pixel map that corresponds to a gesture in a respective sign language and an indication of the respective sign language; comparing the first pixel map to the pixel map of each of the plurality of entries, comprising, for each respective entry: identifying, based on the comparison, an entry of the plurality of entries corresponding to a second gesture that matches the first gesture; receiving metadata associated with a media asset, the metadata comprising a plurality of closed captioning language tracks, each closed captioning language track comprising closed captioning for the media asset in a different language; and selecting one of the closed captioning language tracks that corresponds to a sign language indicated in the identified entry.