Methods and apparatus to identify media for ahead of time watermark encoding
AssigneeThe Nielsen Company (US), LLC
InventorKhaldun Karazoun
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Abstract
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify media for ahead of time watermark encoding. An example apparatus includes a media interface to determine a characteristic of media, the characteristic corresponding to a broadcast time of the media; and a controller to: determine an identifier corresponding to the media; transmit a query including the characteristic and the identifier prior to the media being broadcast, the query to request an indication whether the identifier is unique; and responsive to the indication that the identifier is unique, cause a watermark to be encoded in the media using the identifier prior to the media being broadcast.
Claims20
A computing system comprising a processor and a memory, the computing system configured to perform a set of acts comprising:
- receiving a media asset, a scheduled broadcast time, and a source identification code at a software encoder;
- generating, via the software encoder using the scheduled broadcast time and the source identification code, a watermarked version of the media asset prior to the scheduled broadcast time, wherein generating the watermarked version comprises encoding watermarks in the media asset at an encoding rate faster than a playback rate of the media asset;
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- storing the watermarked version of the media asset in an encoded media database.
A method comprising:
- receiving a media asset, a scheduled broadcast time, and a source identification code at a software encoder;
- generating, via the software encoder using the scheduled broadcast time and the source identification code, a watermarked version of the media asset prior to the scheduled broadcast time, wherein generating the watermarked version comprises encoding watermarks in the media asset at an encoding rate faster than a playback rate of the media asset;
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- storing the watermarked version of the media asset in an encoded media database.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored therein instructions that, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform a set of acts comprising:
- receiving a media asset, a scheduled broadcast time, and a source identification code at a software encoder;
- generating, via the software encoder using the scheduled broadcast time and the source identification code, a watermarked version of the media asset prior to the scheduled broadcast time, wherein generating the watermarked version comprises encoding watermarks in the media asset at an encoding rate faster than a playback rate of the media asset;
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- storing the watermarked version of the media asset in an encoded media database.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.