Patent Document ID: 7711543
Application ID: 11279852

Base Claim:
1. A method for providing an on demand translation service, the method comprising: making available, for use by a subscriber, a translation module including at least one language pair module, having an associated source language and an associated target language, for translating a source language to a target language; charging the subscriber a fee for use of the requested on demand translation service during a paid-for period, after which the translation module expires; receiving a video signal including information in the source language; obtaining the information as text from the video signal; translating the text from the source language to the target language by use of the translation module; adding translated information based on the translated text into the video signal; and sending the video signal including the translated information to a display device.

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Claim 9:
9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: storing a plurality of video signals including a plurality of information in the source language, wherein: the translating the text from the source language to the destination language further comprises: introducing a delay between receiving the plurality of video signals and delivering at least one of the plurality of video signals by looking ahead to at least one of the plurality of video signals received after the video signal currently being processed.