Patent ID: 7221405

Claim:
A method of processing a signal wherein at least a portion of the signal includes one or more closed captions representing audio content associated with a program whose visual content is being viewed by a user, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining, directly from an originating source, the signal including the one or more closed captions in a portable processing device; autonomously processing the signal in the portable processing device so as to generate a display signal representative of the one or more closed captions in the obtained signal; and providing the display signal from the portable processing device to a portable display, operatively coupled to the device, for presentation to the user so that the user may view the visual content of the program and view the one or more closed captions in accordance with the portable display; wherein the portable processing device further comprises an input controller operatively coupled to the processor for allowing the user to enter one or more instructions to the processing device, and a microphone operatively coupled to the processor for allowing the user to enter one or more voice-based instructions to the processing device: and further wherein at least one of the one or more instructions comprises a channel selection instruction.