ON-DEMAND LANGUAGE TRANSLATION FOR TELEVISION PROGRAMS

Patent №

US 7,809,549

Granted

2010-10-05

Filed 2006

Owner

AT&T CORP.

+2 more

Lab

AI components

3

nlp · speech · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11424330

In an embodiment, a method of providing an on demand translation service is provided. A subscriber may be charged a reduced fee or no fee for use of the on demand translation service in exchange for displaying commercial messages to the subscriber, the commercial messages being selected based on subscriber information. A multimedia signal including information in a source language may be received. The information may be obtained as text in the source language from the multimedia signal. The text may be translated from the source language to a target language. Translated information, based on the translated text, may be transmitted to a processing device for presentation to the subscriber. The received multimedia signal may be sent to a multimedia device for viewing.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Speech1.00
AI hardware0.98
Knowledge representation0.22
Machine learning0.09
Vision0.05
Planning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

AT&T CORP.

assignment · 177900558

AT&T PROPERTIES, LLC

assignment · 373250745

AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY II, L.P.

assignment · 373250887

Assignors

BANGALORE, SRINIVAS, GIBBON, DAVID CRAWFORD, GILBERT, MAZIN, HAFFNER, PATRICK GUY, LIU, ZHU, SHAHRARAY, BEHZAD

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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