Patent ID: 6867818

Claim:
An apparatus for processing an electronic signal including video and audio portions corresponding to audible and visible portions of the electronic signal, with said audio portion containing a spoken component related to the audible portion and with said video portion containing an auxiliary information component corresponding to a visible representation of said spoken component of said electronic signal comprising: a video input means to receive video portion of an electronic signal with video portion containing an auxiliary information component, an audio input means to receive audio portion of an electronic signal with said audio portion corresponding to said video portion, a video output means by which the video portion of the electronic signal is made available to a user of the apparatus, an audio output means by which the audio portion of the electronic signal is made available to a user of the apparatus, means for separating said an auxiliary information component from said video portion, means for analyzing said auxiliary information component in order to determine if said auxiliary information component contains specific words or phrases, and means for, muting corresponding audio portion of said electronic signal if specific words or phrases are detected within said auxiliary information component, removing or replacing any detected specific word or phrase with another word or phrase found within said auxiliary information component of the video portion, disabling mute at the conclusion of receipt of the modified auxiliary information component, means to synchronize said modified video portion with audio portion, and means to transmit said synchronized signal to said video output and audio output.