公开(公告)号：US09721576B2

公开(公告)日：2017-08-01

申请号：US14188250

申请日：2014-02-24

Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC

Inventor： Lois Price ,  Arun Ramaswamy ,  Scott Cooper

IPC: G10L19/018 ,  G10L19/16 ,  H04H60/37 ,  H04H60/58 ,  H04N21/2389 ,  H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/8358

CPC classification number: G10L19/018 ,  G10L19/167 ,  H04H60/37 ,  H04H60/58 ,  H04H2201/90 ,  H04N21/2389 ,  H04N21/23892 ,  H04N21/8106 ,  H04N21/8358

Abstract: Apparatus, methods, and articles of manufacture for encoding a compressed media stream are disclosed. Example method of watermarking a digital media signal disclosed herein include copying compressed audio packets associated with an audio stream included in a transport stream of the digital media signal into respective frames of compressed audio data to be watermarked to include media identification information. Such example methods can also include determining whether a composition of the transport stream has changed during copying of the compressed audio packets into the respective frames of the compressed audio data. Such example methods can further include, if the composition of the transport stream has changed, writing the frames of the compressed audio data to an output stream corresponding to the digital media signal without applying a watermark to the frames of the compressed audio data.

公开(公告)号：US20170188091A1

公开(公告)日：2017-06-29

申请号：US15459860

申请日：2017-03-15

Applicant: Snell Advanced Media Limited

Inventor： Jonathan Diggins

IPC: H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/44 ,  G06K9/00

CPC classification number: H04N17/00 ,  G06F17/30743 ,  G06F17/30784 ,  G06K9/00718 ,  G06K9/00744 ,  G06K9/00758 ,  G06K9/6201 ,  G06K9/6212 ,  H04H20/12 ,  H04H2201/90 ,  H04N21/44008 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N2017/006

Abstract: A method of managing visual content. In one instance, the method includes receiving a stream of video fingerprints, derived in a fingerprint generator by an irreversible data reduction process, from respective temporal regions within a particular visual content stream and at a fingerprint processor that is physically separate from the fingerprint generator via a communication network. The fingerprints are processed in the fingerprint processor to generate metadata which is not directly encoded in the fingerprints. Processing of the fingerprints includes windowing the stream of fingerprints with a time window, deriving frequencies of occurrence of particular fingerprint values or ranges of fingerprint values within each time window, determining statistical moments or entropy values of said frequencies of occurrence, comparing said statistical moments or entropy values with expected values for particular types of content, and generating metadata representing the type of the visual content.

公开(公告)号：US20170155934A1

公开(公告)日：2017-06-01

申请号：US15431463

申请日：2017-02-13

Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC

Inventor： Morris Lee

IPC: H04N21/234 ,  H04N21/442 ,  G06K9/00 ,  H04N21/84 ,  H04N21/439

CPC classification number: H04N21/23418 ,  G06K9/0053 ,  G06K9/00543 ,  H04H60/58 ,  H04H2201/90 ,  H04N21/4394 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/44204 ,  H04N21/84

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to identify media content using temporal signal characteristics are disclosed. An example method includes generating a reference signature based on a reference signal corresponding to known media, generating sums based on peaks in a media signal corresponding to media, identifying signal peaks based on the generated sums, generating a second signature based on normalized curve features, wherein the normalized curve features respectively correspond to the identified signal peaks at a corresponding temporal locations of the corresponding signal peak, and determining whether the media signal corresponds to the reference signal based on a comparison of the reference signature and the second signature.

公开(公告)号：US09668020B2

公开(公告)日：2017-05-30

申请号：US14469245

申请日：2014-08-26

Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC

Inventor： Daniel Nelson ,  Venugopal Srinivasan ,  Arun Ramaswamy ,  Raghuram Ranganathan ,  Kenneth William McArthur

IPC: H04N21/23 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/44 ,  H04N21/4408 ,  H04N21/258 ,  H04N21/234

CPC classification number: H04N21/44213 ,  G06K9/00744 ,  H04H60/31 ,  H04H60/40 ,  H04H60/56 ,  H04H2201/90 ,  H04N21/23418 ,  H04N21/25883 ,  H04N21/25891 ,  H04N21/44008 ,  H04N21/4408 ,  H04N21/44204 ,  H04N21/44222 ,  H04N21/8352

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to perform signature retrieval and matching for media monitoring are disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein can include querying a first table using a first site signature obtained from a monitored site, the first table including hash keys corresponding to respective reference signatures, the first table further including respective qualifier data descriptive of respective ones of the reference signatures, Such example methods can also include querying a second table using first qualifier data obtained from querying the first table using the first site signature, the first qualifier data descriptive of a first reference signature corresponding to a first hash key determined to match the first site signature. Such example methods can further include comparing a first block of site signatures with a portion of a plurality of blocks of reference signatures obtained from querying the second table using the first qualifier data.

公开(公告)号：US09654889B2

公开(公告)日：2017-05-16

申请号：US14537262

申请日：2014-11-10

Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC

Inventor： Fernando D. Falcon

IPC: H04R29/00 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  H04H60/31 ,  H04H60/37 ,  H04H60/58 ,  H04M9/08 ,  H04H20/31

CPC classification number: H04R29/00 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  H04H20/31 ,  H04H60/31 ,  H04H60/37 ,  H04H60/58 ,  H04H2201/50 ,  H04H2201/90

Abstract: Example methods disclosed herein to monitor media presented by a media device include adjusting, with a circuit, an inbound audio signal input to the media device based on (i) a level of an outbound audio signal generated by the media device and (ii) a level of the inbound audio signal to produce an adjusted inbound audio signal. Such disclosed example methods also include combining, with the circuit, the adjusted inbound audio signal with a sampled version of the outbound audio signal to determine a return signal. Such disclosed example methods further include processing the return signal to determine first identification information to identify first presented media having an audio portion corresponding to the outbound audio signal generated by the media device.

公开(公告)号：US09544663B1

公开(公告)日：2017-01-10

申请号：US14981145

申请日：2015-12-28

Applicant: Network-1 Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Ingemar J. Cox

IPC: H04N21/43 ,  H04N21/84 ,  H04N21/61 ,  H04N21/858 ,  H04N21/258

CPC classification number: H04N21/812 ,  G06F17/30017 ,  G06F17/30023 ,  G06F17/30026 ,  G06F17/30038 ,  G06F17/30047 ,  G06F17/30241 ,  G06F17/30256 ,  G06F17/30268 ,  G06F17/30277 ,  G06F17/3028 ,  G06F17/30554 ,  G06F17/30598 ,  G06F17/30823 ,  G06F17/30864 ,  G06F17/30867 ,  G06F17/30887 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  G06Q30/0256 ,  G06Q30/0277 ,  G06Q30/0601 ,  G06Q30/0625 ,  G06Q40/12 ,  H04H60/37 ,  H04H60/58 ,  H04H60/59 ,  H04H2201/90 ,  H04L43/16 ,  H04L61/256 ,  H04L65/4076 ,  H04L65/601 ,  H04L67/02 ,  H04L67/1095 ,  H04M1/72583 ,  H04N21/23418 ,  H04N21/2407 ,  H04N21/25841 ,  H04N21/43 ,  H04N21/4394 ,  H04N21/44008 ,  H04N21/47815 ,  H04N21/4788 ,  H04N21/6125 ,  H04N21/84 ,  H04N21/8586

Abstract: A computer system comprising one or more processors and computer-readable media operatively connected thereto, having stored thereon instructions for carrying out the steps of: maintaining one or more databases comprising first electronic data comprising digitally created reference compact electronic representations for each of a plurality of reference electronic works and second electronic data associated with the reference electronic works and related to action information corresponding thereto; obtaining a first digitally created compact electronic representation comprising one or more extracted feature vectors of a first electronic work; identifying a matching reference electronic work by comparing the first digitally created compact electronic representation of the first electronic work with the first electronic data using a sub-linear search of the first electronic data; determining the action information corresponding to the matching reference electronic work based on the second electronic data; and associating the determined action information with the first electronic work.

Abstract translation: 一种计算机系统，包括一个或多个处理器和与其可操作地连接的计算机可读介质，其上存储有用于执行以下步骤的指令：保持包括第一电子数据的一个或多个数据库，所述第一电子数据包括数字创建的参考小型电子表示， 参考电子作品和与参考电子作品相关的第二电子数据，并与其对应的动作信息相关; 获得包括第一电子作品的一个或多个提取的特征向量的第一数字创建的紧凑电子表示; 通过使用第一电子数据的子线性搜索将第一电子作品的第一数字创建的紧凑电子表示与第一电子数据进行比较来识别匹配的参考电子作品; 基于所述第二电子数据确定与所述匹配参考电子作品相对应的动作信息; 以及将所确定的动作信息与所述第一电子作品相关联。

公开(公告)号：US20160321253A1

公开(公告)日：2016-11-03

申请号：US15206726

申请日：2016-07-11

Applicant: Cortica, Ltd.

Inventor： Igal Raichelgauz ,  Karina Odinaev ,  Yehoshua Y. Zeevi

IPC: G06F17/30 ,  H04L29/08

CPC classification number: H04L67/306 ,  G06F16/9535 ,  H04H60/46 ,  H04H2201/90 ,  H04L67/22 ,  H04N7/17318 ,  H04N21/25891 ,  H04N21/2668 ,  H04N21/466 ,  H04N21/8106

Abstract: A system and method for providing recommendations based on current user interests. The method includes identifying at least one current variable, wherein each current variable is associated with a user device or a user; determining, based on the identified at least one current variable, at least one current user interest of a user profile, the user profile including at least one contextual insight, wherein each contextual insight is based on at least one signature for at least one multimedia content element associated with the user; searching for at least one multimedia content element that matches the at least one current user interest; and causing a display of the at least one matching content item as a recommendation.

Abstract translation: 一种基于当前用户兴趣提供建议的系统和方法。 该方法包括识别至少一个当前变量，其中每个当前变量与用户设备或用户相关联; 基于所识别的至少一个当前变量来确定用户简档的至少一个当前用户兴趣，所述用户简档包括至少一个情境洞察，其中每个上下文观点基于至少一个多媒体内容的至少一个签名 与用户相关联的元素; 搜索与所述至少一个当前用户兴趣相匹配的至少一个多媒体内容元素; 并且引起所述至少一个匹配内容项目的显示作为推荐。

公开(公告)号：US20160314794A1

公开(公告)日：2016-10-27

申请号：US15098080

申请日：2016-04-13

Applicant: SoundHound, Inc.

Inventor： Victor Leitman ,  Bernard Mont-Reynaud ,  Kathleen Worthington McMahon ,  Regina Collecchia

IPC: G10L19/018 ,  H04H20/86

CPC classification number: G10L19/018 ,  H04H60/37 ,  H04H60/44 ,  H04H60/58 ,  H04H2201/90 ,  H04N21/233 ,  H04N21/2387 ,  H04N21/4126 ,  H04N21/42203 ,  H04N21/4333 ,  H04N21/4436 ,  H04N21/4524 ,  H04N21/4532 ,  H04N21/4622 ,  H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/8358 ,  H04N21/84 ,  H04N21/8456 ,  H04N21/8547 ,  H04N21/8586

Abstract: A client, such as a mobile phone, receives an audio signal from a microphone; the sound comes from a broadcast signal such as a radio or television program. The client sends a segment of audio data from the broadcast program to a detection system, such as a server. A broadcast monitoring system receives many broadcast audio signals and encodes their fingerprints in a database for matching. The detection system compares the client's audio data fingerprints to the content fingerprints to identify which broadcast station broadcast the signal having the sampled content. This information enables the client to resume the experience of the broadcast from one of a number of possible media sources.

Abstract translation: 诸如移动电话的客户端从麦克风接收音频信号; 声音来自诸如广播或电视节目的广播信号。 客户端将一段音频数据从广播节目发送到诸如服务器的检测系统。 广播监控系统接收许多广播音频信号，并将其指纹编码在数据库中进行匹配。 检测系统将客户端的音频数据指纹与内容指纹进行比较，以识别哪个广播台广播具有采样内容的信号。 该信息使得客户端可以从许多可能的媒体源之一恢复广播的体验。

公开(公告)号：US20160295279A1

公开(公告)日：2016-10-06

申请号：US14926885

申请日：2015-10-29

Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC

Inventor： Venugopal Srinivasan ,  Morris Lee ,  Jeremey M. Davis

IPC: H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/422 ,  H04N21/439

CPC classification number: H04N21/44213 ,  G10L19/018 ,  G10L25/51 ,  H04H60/37 ,  H04H60/58 ,  H04H60/65 ,  H04H2201/50 ,  H04H2201/90 ,  H04N21/42203 ,  H04N21/4394 ,  H04N21/8106

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to determine a state of a media presentation device are disclosed. Example disclosed methods include generating a first set of weighted coefficients based on first audio received by first and second microphones at a first time. Example disclosed methods include generating a second set of weighted coefficients based on second audio received by the first and second microphones at a second time after the first time. Example disclosed methods include comparing the first set of coefficients and the second set of coefficients to generate a similarity value. Example disclosed methods include, when the similarity value satisfies a threshold, determining that the media presentation device is in a first state. Example disclosed methods include, when the similarity value does not satisfy the threshold, determining that the media presentation device is in a second state.

Abstract translation: 公开了确定媒体呈现装置的状态的方法和装置。 所公开的方法包括在第一时间基于由第一和第二麦克风接收的第一音频产生第一组加权系数。 所公开的方法包括在第一时间之后的第二时间，基于由第一和第二麦克风接收的第二音频产生第二组加权系数。 示例性公开的方法包括比较第一组系数和第二组系数以产生相似度值。 公开的示例包括当相似度值满足阈值时，确定媒体呈现设备处于第一状态。 公开的示例包括当相似度值不满足阈值时，确定媒体呈现设备处于第二状态。

公开(公告)号：US20160294496A1

公开(公告)日：2016-10-06

申请号：US15186622

申请日：2016-06-20

Applicant: iHeartMedia Management Services, Inc.

Inventor： Dyon Anniballi ,  Philippe Generali

IPC: H04H60/37 ,  H04H60/64 ,  H04H60/65

CPC classification number: H04H60/37 ,  H04H60/64 ,  H04H60/65 ,  H04H2201/90

Abstract: An end user can sample a radio or television broadcast, generate a user representation of the broadcast sample, and send the user representation to a comparison system, which also receives known representations of content broadcast by multiple different stations. The known representations are stored in a continuous fashion, and represent actually broadcast content. The comparison system identifies the source of the broadcast sample by comparing the user representation to the known representations associated with each of the different stations using a bit count method, such as the Hamming distance. By comparing two representations of content that was actually broadcast, a broadcast source can be identified without requiring the use of watermarks, timestamps, or a database of discreet content items.

Abstract translation: 最终用户可以采样无线电或电视广播，生成广播样本的用户表示，并将用户表示发送到比较系统，比较系统还接收由多个不同台广播的内容的已知表示。 已知的表示以连续的方式存储，并且代表实际的广播内容。 比较系统通过使用诸如汉明距离的比特计数方法将用户表示与与每个不同站相关联的已知表示进行比较来识别广播样本的来源。 通过比较实际广播的内容的两个表示，可以识别广播源，而不需要使用水印，时间戳或谨慎内容项的数据库。