Patent ID: 7050109
Filing Date: 2006-05-23
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for provision of user selected advanced closed captions at a set-top television terminal, comprising the steps of: enabling user selection of a plurality of closed caption display attributes via a graphical user interface provided on a display device associated with said terminal; extracting closed caption information from a broadcast television signal having corresponding television programming; determining whether one or more user selected display attributes have been set; applying at least one user selected display attribute to at least a portion of the closed caption information; and displaying the closed caption information on said display device in accordance with the user selected display attributes via a graphical overlay on top of the television programming; wherein the display attributes comprise at least one of caption window size, print direction, scroll direction, scroll rate, text opacity, background opacity, text justification left, text justification right, text justification center, and background color.