Patent ID: 7876381
Filing Date: 2011-01-25
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A caption collecting apparatus comprising: an extracting module configured to extract a caption region identified as an image of a caption from video image information; an optical character recognition (OCR) module configured to recognize an image of a character string in the caption region and to convert the image into the character string; a text analyzer configured to analyze the character string based on a word class and semantics; a classifying module configured to classify the caption on the basis of an analysis result from the text analyzer and to accumulate character strings of the captions as items of text information classified by categories; a format setting module configured to set an output format in which the captions can be displayed at once for each category according to the genre of the video image information; and a display module configured to display the captions in the output format set by the format setting module.