Methods and apparatus for radio station monitoring using unmanned aerial vehicles
AssigneeThe Nielsen Company (US), LLC
InventorsTimothy Christian, Mohammed Sayed, Gloria Bautista
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Abstract
Methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed for performing radio station monitoring using unmanned aerial vehicles. An example unmanned aerial vehicle disclosed herein includes a radio receiver to receive a radio broadcast from at least one radio station, a watermark detector to detect a watermark in the received radio broadcast, and a communication transceiver to report at least one of a detected watermark or information associated with the detected watermark to a remote receiver.
Claims17
An unmanned aerial vehicle, the vehicle comprising:
- a radio receiver to receive a radio broadcast from at least one radio station;
- a watermark detector to detect a watermark in the received radio broadcast;
- a communication transceiver to report at least one of a detected watermark or information associated with the detected watermark to a remote receiver;
- and
- a monitoring controller to control the unmanned aerial vehicle to travel to a first radio station site and to park at the first radio station site to monitor the radio broadcast.
A method for performing radio station monitoring using an unmanned aerial vehicle, the method comprising:
- receiving a radio broadcast from at least one radio station with a radio receiver at the unmanned aerial vehicle;
- detecting, by executing an instruction with a processor, a watermark in the received radio broadcast;
- reporting, by executing an instruction within the processor, at least one of the detected watermark or information associated with the detected watermark to a remote receiver;
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- controlling, by executing an instruction within the processor, the unmanned aerial vehicle to travel to a first radio station site and to park at the first radio station site to monitor the radio broadcast.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed, cause a processor of an unmanned aerial vehicle to at least:
- access a radio broadcast from at least one radio station;
- detect a watermark in the radio broadcast;
- report at least one of the detected watermark or information associated with the detected watermark to a remote receiver;
- and
- travel to a first radio station site and to park at the first radio station site to monitor the radio broadcast.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.