Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to provide secondary content in association with primary broadcast media content
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IPC분류정보
국가/구분
United States(US) Patent
등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)
G06F-017/00
H04H-060/32
H04H-060/58
출원번호
US-0771640
(2010-04-30)
등록번호
US-8666528
(2014-03-04)
발명자
/ 주소
Harkness, David Henry
Ramaswamy, Arun
Samson, Jerome
Besehanic, Jan
Srinivasan, Venugopal
Topchy, Alexander Pavlovich
출원인 / 주소
The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
대리인 / 주소
Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman LLC
인용정보
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17인용 특허 :
169
초록▼
Example methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to provide media content are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes receiving audio output by a first media presentation device, obtaining at least one of a Nielsen code or an Arbitron® code from the audio, the obtained code being repres
Example methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to provide media content are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes receiving audio output by a first media presentation device, obtaining at least one of a Nielsen code or an Arbitron® code from the audio, the obtained code being representative of at least one of the first media content or a broadcaster of the first media content, obtaining second media content based on the extracted code, and presenting the second media content on a second media presentation device different from the first media presentation device.
대표청구항▼
1. A method of presenting media content comprising: determining a characteristic of frequencies of a frequency domain representation of audio output by a first media presentation device that may contain a code representative of at least one of first media content or a broadcaster of the first media
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A method of presenting media content comprising: determining a characteristic of frequencies of a frequency domain representation of audio output by a first media presentation device that may contain a code representative of at least one of first media content or a broadcaster of the first media content;normalizing, across code bands, the characteristic of the frequencies of the frequency domain representation in a code band that may contain the code, the normalization being carried out against a threshold characteristic of a frequency in that code band;summing the normalized characteristics of the corresponding frequencies to identify the frequency with the largest sum;determining that the identified frequency is representative of the code;obtaining second media content based on the code; andpresenting the second media content on a second media presentation device different from the first media presentation device while the first media content is presented on the first media presentation device. 2. A method as defined in claim 1, wherein obtaining the second media content comprises: sending a request containing the code to a secondary content server; andreceiving the second media content from the secondary content server. 3. A method as defined in claim 2, wherein the secondary content server comprises a customer-premises media server. 4. A method as defined in claim 1, further comprising: obtaining a timestamp associated with the code from the audio; andwherein obtaining the second media content comprises obtaining the second media content based on the code and the timestamp, the second media content comprising a plurality of pieces of secondary content for respective ones of a plurality of timestamps; andpresenting the second media content comprises presenting a first of the plurality of pieces of secondary content when its respective timestamp substantially corresponds to a time value determined from the timestamp. 5. A method as defined in claim 1, wherein the audio includes embedded frequency components representing the code, different sets of the frequency components representing respectively different information, one frequency component from each of the sets of frequency components being located in a code band, the code band being one of a plurality of code bands and spacing between adjacent code bands being equal to or less than the spacing between adjacent frequency components of each of the code bands, amplitudes of the frequency components representing the information and being selected based on a masking ability of the audio. 6. A method as defined in claim 5, wherein the frequency components used to represent the information are in an audible frequency range. 7. A method as defined in claim 1, wherein obtaining the code from the audio comprises: sampling the audio; andtransforming the sampled audio into the frequency domain representation. 8. A method as defined in claim 1, wherein the second media content does not represent the first media content. 9. A method as defined in claim 1, further comprising synchronizing the second media content on the second media presentation device with the first media content on the first media presentation device. 10. A tangible article of manufacture comprising machine-readable instructions that, when executed, cause a machine to at least: determine a characteristic of frequencies of a frequency domain representation of audio output by a first media presentation device that may contain a code identifying at least one of first media content or a broadcaster of the first media content;normalize, across code bands, the characteristic of the frequencies of the frequency domain representation in a code band that may contain the code, the normalization being carried out against a threshold characteristic of a frequency in that code band;sum the normalized characteristics of the corresponding frequencies to identify the frequency with the largest sum;determine that the identified frequency is representative of the code;obtain second media content based on the code; andpresent the second media content on a second media presentation device different from the first media presentation device during presentation of the first media content on the first media presentation device. 11. A tangible article of manufacture as defined in claim 10, wherein the machine-readable instructions, when executed, cause the machine to: obtain a timestamp associated with the code from the audio;obtain the second media content based on the code and the timestamp, the second media content comprising a plurality of pieces of secondary content for respective ones of a plurality of timestamps; andpresent the second media content by presenting a first of the plurality of pieces of secondary content when its respective timestamp substantially corresponds to a time value determined from the timestamp. 12. A tangible article of manufacture as defined in claim 10, wherein the machine-readable instructions, when executed, cause the machine to synchronize the first media content with the second media content. 13. An apparatus to present media content comprising: a decoder to (1) determine a characteristic of frequencies of a frequency domain representation of audio output by a first media presentation device that may contain a code corresponding to at least one of first media content or a broadcaster of the first media content, (2) normalize, across code bands, the characteristic of the frequencies of the frequency domain representation in a code band that may contain the code, the normalization being carried out against a threshold characteristic of a frequency in that code band, (3) sum the normalized characteristics of the corresponding frequencies to identify the frequency with the largest sum, and (4) determine that the frequency with the largest sum is representative of the code;a secondary content module to obtain second media content based on the code; anda user interface module to present the second media content on a second media presentation device different from the first media presentation device substantially concurrently with presentation of the first media content on the first media presentation device. 14. An apparatus as defined in claim 13, wherein the audio includes embedded frequency components representing the code, different sets of the frequency components representing respectively different information, one frequency component from each of the sets of frequency components being located in a code band, the code band being one of a plurality of code bands and spacing between adjacent code bands being equal to or less than the spacing between adjacent frequency components of each of the code bands, amplitudes of the frequency components representing the information and being selected based on a masking ability of the audio. 15. An apparatus as defined in claim 13, wherein the secondary content module is to: send a request containing the code to a secondary content server; andreceive the secondary content from the secondary content server. 16. An apparatus as defined in claim 15, wherein the secondary content server comprises a customer-premises media server. 17. An apparatus as defined in claim 13, wherein the user interface module is implemented by at least one of a hand-held computer, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a cellular telephone, a smartphone, a laptop computer, a netbook computer, a hand-held media presentation device, or a mobile media presentation device. 18. An apparatus as defined in claim 13, wherein the decoder is to obtain a timestamp associated with the code from the audio,the secondary content module is to obtain the second media content based on the code and the timestamp,the secondary content comprises a plurality of pieces of secondary content for respective ones of a plurality of timestamps, andthe user interface module is to present the second media content by presenting a first of the plurality of pieces of secondary content when its respective timestamp substantially corresponds to a time value determined using the timestamp. 19. An apparatus as defined in claim 13, wherein the audio comprises the code embedded into the audio using a plurality of frequency components residing in a plurality of code bands, and wherein the decoder comprises: a sampler to sample the audio; anda time-to-frequency domain converter to transform the sampled audio into a frequency domain representation.
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