Patent ID: 7139031

Claim:
Home television apparatus for processing an analog or digital electronic signal including an audio portion, a video portion, a spoken component portion related to the audio portion, an auxiliary information component and an on-screen display, said apparatus comprising: a text generator connected to receive a portion of said electronic signal to produce a text representation of said spoken component portion; a video path by which video portions of said electronic signal are processed and made available to a user display; an audio path by which audio portions of said electronic signal are processed and made available to a user audio output device; a programmable controller with a data memory including at least one text library; said programmable controller having a text editor for analyzing said text representation to determine if said spoken component contains words corresponding to undesirable words or phrases stored in a selected library of said memory; said text editor being configured to replace any detected undesirable word or phrase with another word, phrase, or blank space from a selected library of said memory to produce a modified spoken component including a modified text signal for said on-screen display; an audio switch in said audio path for selectively modifying a corresponding audio portion of said electronic signal if undesirable words or phrases are detected within a segment of a spoken component portion; said audio switch being controlled to cease modifications at the conclusion of said segment; and an on-screen display connected in said video path to produce a video display component representing said modified text signal; a video display unit connected to receive said video portions of the electronic signal including said video display component.