Patent ID: 8614731

Claim:
A method of determining the quality of audio-visual services of a mobile telephone, comprising: wirelessly receiving audio-video content at the mobile telephone; wherein the audio-video content comprises video content and audio content; wherein the video content is formed of a plurality of video frames; wherein the audio content is formed of a plurality of audio segments; wherein each video frame is encoded with a one or more video symbols; wherein each of the plurality of audio segments is encoded with one or more audible markers; outputting the received audio content with the mobile telephone; displaying the received video content with the mobile telephone; processing the one or more video symbols of each video frame of the displayed video content to determine a video quality of the displayed video content, including: extracting a color layer from image data representing each video frame; blurring the extracted color layer; edge detecting the blurred extracted color layer to provide processed image data; detecting one or more shapes in the processed image data; and decoding the one or more symbols from detected shapes; processing the audible markers of the outputted audio content to determine an audio quality of the outputted audio content; and outputting an indication of the video quality and the audio quality.