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View Edit Delete	US6559866B2	As an example, suppose the remote control 106 includes text markings in Italian, e.g. button 230 includes “Compra” in place of “Buy”. When a particular product is displayed, the programming 409 may include a trigger for an interactive option 408 enabling a user to purchase the displayed product by pressing the “Compra” button 230.	79	Added by DJM 12 2021	12/23/21, 12:00 AM
View Edit Delete	US6559866B2	However, suppose a user has specified English as the selected language 418. In one implementation, the icon display module 410 retrieves and displays the icon 404a from the icon repository 402 corresponding to the “Compra” button 230. At essentially the same time, the language assistant 414 retrieves the corresponding description 422a, e.g. “Buy”, corresponding to the icon 404a from the English language module 416. In one embodiment, the language assistant 414 displays the description 422a on the television 104 in close proximity to the icon 404a. Broken lines in FIG. 4 indicate the relationship between the “Compra” button 230, the interactive option 408, the icon 404a and the description 422a.	80	Added by DJM 12 2021	12/23/21, 12:00 AM
View Edit Delete	US6559866B2	As shown in FIG. 4, the icon 404a has the same shape as the “Compra” button 230, e.g. a squashed oval. Moreover, both the icon 404a and the “Compra” button 230 include similar text markings, e.g. the word “Compra.” Furthermore, the description 422a provides a direct translation of the Italian word “Compra” into its English equivalent, “Buy.” The similarity of the shape and textual markings of the icon 404a with the translation provided by the description 422a may assist the user in rapidly locating the “Compra” button 230 on the remote control 106. Additionally, the description 422a assists the user in deciding whether activating the “Buy” interactive option 408 is desirable.	81	Added by DJM 12 2021	12/23/21, 12:00 AM
View Edit Delete	US6559866B2	In an alternative embodiment, the system 400 may include an audio component 424 in communication with the language assistant 414. As described in greater detail below, the audio component 424 allows the language assistant 414 to present audible descriptions 422 (in a user-preferred language) in addition to, or in lieu of, visual descriptions 422. For example, the audio component 424 may use a voice synthesis module 425 to output a spoken version of a description 422. Various text-to-speech voice synthesis systems are available from Lucent®, Creative Labs®, and others.	82	Added by DJM 12 2021	12/23/21, 12:00 AM
View Edit Delete	US6559866B2	While the icon repository 402, the icon display module 410, the interactive option module 406, the audio component 424, and the language assistant 414 are illustrated as components of the STB 102, those skilled in the art will recognize that these components may be located within various physical locations within the system 100. For example, a single icon repository 402 may be implemented within a head-end 110 and provide icons 404 to a plurality of STBs 102. Additionally, a language assistant 414 may reside on a server (not shown) connected to the Internet 112.	83	Added by DJM 12 2021	12/23/21, 12:00 AM
View Edit Delete	US6559866B2	In one embodiment, the language assistant 414 is configured to display the description 422 at various locations on the television 104 in relation to the icon 404. As shown in FIG. 5, the description 422 may be displayed above, below, to the left, or to the right of the icon 404. In one configuration, the language assistant 414 may actually replace text markings on the icon 404 with a translated description 422.	84	Added by DJM 12 2021	12/23/21, 12:00 AM
View Edit Delete	US6559866B2	In certain configurations, the description 422 may be visually emphasized by highlighting, illuminating, pulsing, or otherwise emphasizing the description 422. In the depicted embodiment, description 422a is bolded to attract the userʼs attention. Visual emphasis may also be accomplished, for example, by cycling colors of the description 422a, changing the color of the display screen behind the description 422a, or other similar techniques.	85	Added by DJM 12 2021	12/23/21, 12:00 AM
View Edit Delete	US6559866B2	As also shown in FIG. 5, the displayed description 422a may be larger than the text markings of the icon 404. This may be helpful to users who have impaired vision. Typically, at least some enlargement of text markings is necessary, since the low resolution of a television screen makes small text and graphics difficult to understand.	86	Added by DJM 12 2021	12/23/21, 12:00 AM
View Edit Delete	US6559866B2	FIG. 5 also shows a language button 502, e.g. “Lingua” in Italian. In certain embodiments, the language button 502 may be used to change the selected language 418 discussed in relation to FIG. 4. In this manner, a foreign language user may quickly set the selected language 418 and receive descriptions 422 in the userʼs preferred language.	87	Added by DJM 12 2021	12/23/21, 12:00 AM
View Edit Delete	US6559866B2	In one embodiment, when a user activates a button corresponding to a displayed icon 404, the system 400 produces an audible confirmation. The audible confirmation may be used to assure the user that the correct button was pressed on the remote control 106. The AN controller 308 of FIG. 3 may be configured to produce an audio signal when the correct button is activated. The audio signal may include, for example, a chime, a tone, a beep, or other suitable indicator. In one embodiment, the audio signal may include a spoken name of the button, in the selected language 418, which may be generated using conventional voice synthesis techniques.	88	Added by DJM 12 2021	12/23/21, 12:00 AM
View Edit Delete	US6559866B2	FIG. 6 illustrates an alternative embodiment of the invention in which a description 422a is presented both visually and audibly. The description 422a may include alternative audible messages 602, 604, 606 to assist the speaker of a language other than the default language of the remote control 106. These messages 602, 604, 606 may be played on a speaker associated with the television 104, the STB 102, or another suitable location.	89	Added by DJM 12 2021	12/23/21, 12:00 AM
View Edit Delete	US6559866B2	The system 400 may be configured to provide a word message 602, e.g. “Buy”, a phrase message 604, e.g., “Buy the displayed item,” or an instructional message 606, e.g., “Please press the “Buy” button to purchase the displayed item.” The instructional message 606 may be particularly useful, in that it may provide step-by-step instructions, in the userʼs preferred language, concerning the operation of the remote control 106.	90	Added by DJM 12 2021	12/23/21, 12:00 AM
View Edit Delete	US6559866B2	In some embodiments, a map 702 of the remote control 106 (or a portion thereof) is displayed in order to help the user locate a particular button, as illustrated in FIG. 7. The map 702 may include a plurality of icons 404 from the repository 402, which are arranged according to the relative locations of the corresponding buttons on the remote control 106. The map 702 may include other graphical elements, such as a semitransparent outline of a remote control to provide a context for the displayed icons 404. In addition, the map 702 may contain icons 404 corresponding to buttons that are not used for interactive options 408, such as, for example, the power button 206. In one embodiment, the map 702 is displayed by the icon display module 410.	91	Added by DJM 12 2021	12/23/21, 12:00 AM
View Edit Delete	US6559866B2	An icon 404a corresponding to a currently available interactive option 408 may be visually emphasized within the map 702 through highlighting, animation, scaling, or the like. This allows the user to rapidly determine the location of the corresponding button within the remote control 106.	92	Added by DJM 12 2021	12/23/21, 12:00 AM
View Edit Delete	US6559866B2	Moreover, the description 422a of the interactive option 408 may be displayed in connection with the icon 404a, as previously described. The description 422a, likewise, may be visually emphasized using the techniques discussed above to bring the same to the attention of the user. For example, as shown in FIG. 7, the description 422a associated with the icon 404a corresponding to the “Compra” button 230 may be cyclically scaled (e.g., enlarged and reduced) in an animated fashion to attract the userʼs attention. Alternatively, the description 422a may be rotated, translated, or the like. Of course, the illustrated animation is merely exemplary, and many other techniques for animation may be used.	93	Added by DJM 12 2021	12/23/21, 12:00 AM
View Edit Delete	US6559866B2	The size and location of each icon 404a within the map 702 is preferably relative to the size and location of the corresponding button of the remote control 106. Thus, to locate a button of the remote control 106, a user may compare the size and location of a displayed icon 404a corresponding to an available interactive option 408 with the size and location of corresponding buttons of the remote control 106.	94	Added by DJM 12 2021	12/23/21, 12:00 AM
View Edit Delete	US6559866B2	Of course, the map 702 need not correspond to the entire remote control 106. For example, the map 702 may represent only the “top” or “bottom” halves of the remote control 106, or some other discrete portion thereof.	95	Added by DJM 12 2021	12/23/21, 12:00 AM
View Edit Delete	US6559866B2	In one embodiment, as shown in FIG. 8, a user may switch between an icon view 802 and a map view 804. The icon view 802 may correspond to the embodiments shown in FIGS. 4-6 in which an icon 404 representing an available interactive option 408 is displayed with a description 422. The map view 804 may correspond to the embodiment depicted in FIG. 7 in which a map 702 is displayed.	96	Added by DJM 12 2021	12/23/21, 12:00 AM
View Edit Delete	US6559866B2	In one embodiment, the icon view 802 may be the default view, with the map view 804 being displayed only in response to a user pressing an appropriate button on the remote control 106, such as a “View” button 806. For remote controls 106 designed for specific languages the “View” button 806 may include text markings in a default language such as Italian, e.g. “Guardar.” A speaker of a language other than the default language may learn the function of the “Guardar” button 806 through minimal assistance, translated manuals, or on-line help. Alternatively, the map view 804 may be the default view. The “View” button 806 may be configured to toggle the display between the icon view 802 and the map view 804 in various embodiments.	97	Added by DJM 12 2021	12/23/21, 12:00 AM
View Edit Delete	US6559866B2	Referring now to FIG. 9, there is shown a flowchart of a method 900 for assisting a speaker of a first language in operating a remote control device 106 designed for a speaker of a second language. The method 900 begins by storing 902 in a repository 402 an icon 404 for each of a plurality of interactive options 408 available at various times within a system 400. In addition, a description 422, in the first language, is stored 904 with each icon 404 describing the corresponding interactive option 408.	98	Added by DJM 12 2021	12/23/21, 12:00 AM

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