METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CREDITING A MEDIA PRESENTATION DEVICE
    3.
    发明申请
    METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CREDITING A MEDIA PRESENTATION DEVICE 有权
    用于记录媒体演示装置的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US20130160042A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-06-20

    申请号:US13718878

    申请日:2012-12-18

    IPC分类号: H04N21/24

    摘要: Methods and apparatus for crediting a media presentation device are disclosed. An example method includes obtaining ambient audio of a location including a media presentation device during a time period, detecting encoded information present in the ambient audio, crediting a first portion of the time period for the media presentation device to first media based on the encoded information, determining an on/off state of the media presentation device for a second portion of the time period different than the first portion based on the ambient audio, and crediting the second portion of the time period based on the on/off state of the media presentation device.

    摘要翻译: 公开了记录媒体呈现装置的方法和装置。 示例性方法包括在一段时间内获得包括媒体呈现设备的位置的环境音频,检测环境音频中存在的编码信息,基于编码信息将媒体呈现设备的时间段的第一部分记入第一媒体 基于所述环境音频,确定与所述第一部分不同的所述时间段的第二部分的所述媒体呈现设备的开/关状态,并且基于所述媒体的开/关状态计入所述时间段的所述第二部分 演示设备。

    METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CHARACTERIZING MEDIA
    4.
    发明申请
    METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CHARACTERIZING MEDIA 有权
    表征媒体的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US20130013324A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-01-10

    申请号:US13619023

    申请日:2012-09-14

    IPC分类号: G10L19/00

    CPC分类号: H04H60/58 H04H20/14

    摘要: Methods and apparatus for characterizing media are described. A disclosed example apparatus includes a transformer, a decision metric processor, a signature determiner, and a processor to implement the transformer, the decision metric processor, and/or the signature determiner. The example transformer is to convert at least a portion of a block of audio into a frequency domain representation including a plurality of frequency components. The example decision metric processor is to: define a band of the frequency components; determine a difference in energy between a first convolution of a first complex vector with a first group of frequency bins in the band and a second convolution of a second complex vector with a second group of frequency bins in the band; and determine a decision metric for the band based on the difference. The example signature determiner is to determine a signature based on a value of the decision metric.

    摘要翻译: 描述用于表征介质的方法和装置。 所公开的示例性设备包括变压器,决策度量处理器,签名确定器和用于实现变压器的处理器,决策度量处理器和/或签名确定器。 示例性变压器是将音频块的至少一部分转换为包括多个频率分量的频域表示。 示例决策度量处理器是:定义频率分量的频带; 确定第一复矢量与频带中的第一组频率仓的第一卷积之间的能量差和第二复矢量与频带中的第二组频率仓的第二卷积; 并且基于该差异来确定所述频带的决策度量。 示例性签名确定器是基于决策度量的值来确定签名。

    DATA INSERTION APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR USE WITH COMPRESSED AUDIO/VIDEO DATA
    5.
    发明申请
    DATA INSERTION APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR USE WITH COMPRESSED AUDIO/VIDEO DATA 有权
    数据插入装置和使用压缩音频/视频数据的方法

    公开(公告)号:US20110055860A1

    公开(公告)日:2011-03-03

    申请号:US12942800

    申请日:2010-11-09

    IPC分类号: H04H60/32 H04N7/025

    摘要: Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for performing data insertion in compressed audio/video data streams are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein to insert audience measurement data in a compressed media data stream comprises rearranging data in frames of the compressed media data stream to form contiguous sequences of skip bytes at respective locations in the frames of the compressed media data stream, the audience measurement data to be inserted in the compressed media data stream at the locations of the contiguous sequences of skip bytes, the contiguous sequences of skip bytes having respective lengths, and inserting different types of audience measurement data at the locations of the contiguous sequences of skip bytes in two different frames of the compressed media data stream based on the respective lengths of the contiguous sequences of skip bytes in the two different frames of the compressed media data stream.

    摘要翻译: 公开了在压缩音频/视频数据流中执行数据插入的方法,装置和制品。 本文公开的将受众测量数据插入到压缩媒体数据流中的示例性方法包括在压缩媒体数据流的帧中重新排列数据,以在压缩媒体数据流的帧中的相应位置处形成连续的跳过字节序列,观众测量 要在连续的跳过字节序列的位置处插入压缩媒体数据流中的数据,具有相应长度的连续的跳过字节序列,以及将不同类型的观众测量数据插入到连续的跳过字节序列的位置 基于压缩媒体数据流的两个不同帧中的连续的跳过字节序列的相应长度,压缩媒体数据流的两个不同帧。

    METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING SIGNAURES
    6.
    发明申请
    METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING SIGNAURES 有权
    用于生成信号的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US20090225994A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-09-10

    申请号:US12266380

    申请日:2008-11-06

    IPC分类号: H04R29/00

    摘要: Signaturing methods and apparatus as described. In one example, a signaturing method includes capturing an audio signal, applying a first window function to a portion of the captured audio signal to produce a first windowed audio block, applying a second window function to the portion of the captured audio signal to produce a second windowed audio block, determining a first characteristic of a band of frequencies in the first windowed audio block, determining a second characteristic of the band of frequencies in the second windowed audio block, comparing the first characteristic to the second characteristic, and assigning a signature bit representative of the portion of the captured audio signal based on the comparison of the first characteristic and the second characteristic. Other examples are described.

    摘要翻译: 所述的标记方法和装置。 在一个示例中,签名方法包括捕获音频信号,将第一窗口功能应用于所捕获的音频信号的一部分以产生第一加窗音频块,将第二窗口功能应用于所捕获的音频信号的该部分以产生 确定第一窗口化音频块中的频带的第一特性,确定第二窗口化音频块中的频带的第二特性,将第一特征与第二特性进行比较,以及分配签名 基于第一特性和第二特性的比较,代表捕获的音频信号的部分的位。 描述其他示例。

    Methods and apparatus to count people appearing in an image
    7.
    发明授权
    Methods and apparatus to count people appearing in an image 有权
    计算人物出现在图像中的方法和设备

    公开(公告)号:US07466844B2

    公开(公告)日:2008-12-16

    申请号:US11548578

    申请日:2006-10-11

    IPC分类号: G06K9/00

    摘要: Methods and apparatus to count people appearing in an image are disclosed. One disclosed method reduces objects appearing in a series of images to one or more blobs; for each individual image in a set of the images of the series of images, represents the one or more blobs in the individual image by one or more symbols in a histogram; and analyzes the symbols appearing in the histogram to count the people in the image.

    摘要翻译: 公开了计算出现在图像中的人的方法和装置。 一种公开的方法将出现在一系列图像中的对象减少到一个或多个斑点; 对于一系列图像的图像中的每个单独图像,通过直方图中的一个或多个符号来表示单个图像中的一个或多个斑点; 并分析出现在直方图中的符号来计算图像中的人物。

    Methods and apparatus to verify presentation of media content
    8.
    发明授权
    Methods and apparatus to verify presentation of media content 有权
    验证媒体内容呈现的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US09124769B2

    公开(公告)日:2015-09-01

    申请号:US12505966

    申请日:2009-07-20

    摘要: Example methods and apparatus to verify presentation of media content are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus for use with a set-top box (STB) and a media presentation device includes an audio input interface to receive a first audio signal associated with a program selected by a user via the STB, a microphone to receive a free-field radiating second audio signal output by at least one of the media presentation device or an audio system associated with the media presentation device, a comparator to compare the second audio signal to the first audio signal to form an output, and an output interface to provide a value indicative of whether the program selected by the user via the STB is presented at the media presentation device.

    摘要翻译: 公开了用于验证媒体内容呈现的示例性方法和装置。 用于机顶盒(STB)和媒体呈现装置的公开的示例性装置包括:音频输入接口,用于接收与由用户经由STB选择的节目相关联的第一音频信号;麦克风, 由媒体呈现设备或与媒体呈现设备相关联的音频系统中的至少一个输出的第二音频信号,比较器,用于将第二音频信号与第一音频信号进行比较以形成输出;以及输出接口, 指示由用户经由STB选择的节目是否在媒体呈现设备处被呈现的值。

    METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING SIGNATURES
    9.
    发明申请
    METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING SIGNATURES 有权
    用于生成信号的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US20140137146A1

    公开(公告)日:2014-05-15

    申请号:US14074499

    申请日:2013-11-07

    IPC分类号: H04N21/8358 H04N21/442

    摘要: Signaturing methods and apparatus as described. An example method includes applying a first function to a portion of digital data to produce a first windowed block, applying a second function different from the first function to the same portion of the digital data to produce a second windowed block, determining a first characteristic of a band of frequencies in the first windowed block, determining a second characteristic of the band of frequencies in the second windowed block, comparing the first characteristic to the second characteristic, and assigning a signature bit representative of the portion of the digital data based on the comparison of the first characteristic and the second characteristic.

    摘要翻译: 所述的标记方法和装置。 一个示例性方法包括将第一函数应用于数字数据的一部分以产生第一窗口化块,将与第一函数不同的第二函数应用于数字数据的相同部分以产生第二窗口块,确定第一特征 在第一窗口化块中的频带,确定第二窗口化块中的频带的第二特性,将第一特征与第二特性进行比较,以及基于该第一特征向量分配表示数字数据部分的签名位 第一特征与第二特征的比较。