Patent 7391470 was granted and assigned to Samsung on June, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An apparatus and method for providing caption information effectively provides information on the status of a caption service for a broadcast signal depending on a user's selection by checking the caption service status of the broadcast signal at a predetermined time interval and storing the caption service status information obtained through the check. The apparatus includes a caption information collecting unit for checking the status of a caption service for a broadcast signal at a predetermined time interval and collecting information on the caption service status, and a caption information processing unit for displaying the collected caption service status information on a display unit.