Patents by Inventor Amnon M. Salomon

Amnon M. Salomon has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and apparatus for providing dual language captioning of a television program
    Patent number: 5519443
    Abstract: A method of decoding data for a language having the Roman alphabet or a language having a syllabic alphabet from a television data stream includes the steps of receiving the data in the form of data packets and determining from bit values stored at particular bit positions whether the data is control data or represents printable character data comprising a head code or a tail code. Once it is determined that the data represents either a head code or a tail code of a printable character, the data bytes are valued for parity and, from that determination, a letter component is generated which points to a letter component or complete character for one or the other alphabet. Because characters of a syllabic language may be quite complex, the step of displaying the syllabic language character includes the steps of overlaying two or more letter components to form the syllabic character image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 21, 1996
    Assignee: National Captioning Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Amnon M. Salomon, Anthony M. Faust
  • Method and apparatus for providing dual language captioning of a television program
    Patent number: 5294982
    Abstract: A method of decoding data for a language having the Roman alphabet or a language having a syllabic alphabet from a composite video signal comprises the steps of receiving the data in the form of data packets and determining from bit values stored at particular bit positions whether the data is control data or represents printable character data comprising a head code or a tail code. Once it is determined that the data represents either a head code or a tail code of a printable character, the data bytes are valued for parity and, from that determination, a letter component is generated which points to a letter component or complete character for one or the other alphabet. Because characters of a syllabic language may be quite complex, the step of displaying the syllabic language character includes the steps of overlaying two or more letter components to form the syllabic character image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 15, 1994
    Assignee: National Captioning Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Amnon M. Salomon, Anthony M. Faust