Methods and apparatus for metering portable media players
AssigneeThe Nielsen Company (US), LLC
InventorsPerry Joseph Fisch, Seth Alan Pelletier
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Abstract
Example methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for media metering are disclosed. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes at least one memory, instructions in the apparatus, and at least one processor installed in a media presentation device to execute the instructions to at least: cause a video decoder to generate video display rasterizing information, present the video display rasterizing information via an output device of the media presentation device, and in response to monitoring being enabled, generate metering information corresponding to media presented in association with the video display rasterizing information presented via the output device.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- generating, by a video decoder of a television, video display rasterizing information;
- presenting the video display rasterizing information via a display of the television;
- and
- based on monitoring being enabled, generating, by a processor of the television, metering information indicative of the video display rasterizing information presented via the display of the television.
A television configured to perform a set of operations comprising:
- generating, by a video decoder, video display rasterizing information;
- presenting the video display rasterizing information via a display of the television;
- and
- based on monitoring being enabled, generating, by a processor, metering information indicative of the video display rasterizing information presented via the display of the television.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored therein instructions that when executed by a computing system of a television, cause the television to perform a set of operations comprising:
- generating video display rasterizing information;
- presenting the video display rasterizing information via a display of the television;
- and
- based on monitoring being enabled, generating metering information indicative of the video display rasterizing information presented via the display of the television.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.