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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2016
Applicant:
The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc, New York, NY (US);
Inventors:
Timothy Scott Cooper, Oldsmar, FL (US);
Saso Vranek, Ilirska Bistrica, SI;
Andrej Barbis, Ilirska Bistrica, SI;
Assignee:
THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/2343 (2011.01); H04N 21/462 (2011.01); H04N 21/482 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4424 (2013.01); H04N 21/23439 (2013.01); H04N 21/44204 (2013.01); H04N 21/44218 (2013.01); H04N 21/4621 (2013.01); H04N 21/4825 (2013.01);
Abstract
Example invertible metering apparatus and related methods are disclosed. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes a housing orientation determiner and a stencil orientation determiner. The example apparatus also includes an orientation validator to determine whether a detected orientation of the stencil relative to a detected orientation of the housing is valid.