• DocumentCode
    1520507
  • Title

    How closed captions work

  • Author

    Malcom, Alison

  • Author_Institution
    Rochester Inst. of Technol., NY, USA
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1985
  • Firstpage
    19
  • Lastpage
    20
  • Abstract
    The author describes the coding of closed captions for the hearing impaired, which are included in standard television broadcast signals on line 21 of the standard television broadcast signal. Decoders in adaptors or in special television receivers decode these signals and display the captions on television screens.
  • Keywords
    handicapped aids; television; television broadcasting; adaptors; closed captions; hearing impaired; line 21; standard television broadcast signal; standard television broadcast signals; television receivers; television screens; Blanking; Clocks; Decoding; Receivers; Standards; Synchronization; TV;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Professional Communication, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0361-1434
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TPC.1985.6448842
  • Filename
    6448842