Patent ID: 8269889
Filing Date: 2012-09-18
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A television apparatus comprising: a display and an audio transducer to reproduce video and audio component parts of a television signal; a processor to separate from the television signal an audio descriptor component part for providing an audio description of a corresponding video component part of the television signal; a controller to selectively control the television apparatus to operate in one of an audio descriptor mode in which an audio descriptor component part is reproduced by the audio transducer at the same time as the display reproduces the respective corresponding video component part and a standard mode in which the audio descriptor component part is not reproduced; and a user operable interface to select between the standard mode and the audio descriptor mode, wherein the controller is configured to drive the display to provide a mode image providing an indication of the selective mode, and the controller is additionally configured to cause the television apparatus to provide, for a visually impaired user, an additional indication, different from the audio descriptor component part, whenever the audio descriptor mode is selected.