公开(公告)号：US12088875B2

公开(公告)日：2024-09-10

申请号：US18068247

申请日：2022-12-19

Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC

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

IPC: H04N21/44 ,  G06V20/40 ,  H04H60/31 ,  H04N21/234 ,  H04N21/258 ,  H04N21/4408 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/8352 ,  H04H60/40 ,  H04H60/56

CPC classification number: H04N21/44213 ,  G06V20/46 ,  H04H60/31 ,  H04N21/23418 ,  H04N21/25883 ,  H04N21/25891 ,  H04N21/44008 ,  H04N21/4408 ,  H04N21/44204 ,  H04N21/44222 ,  H04N21/8352 ,  H04H60/40 ,  H04H60/56 ,  H04H2201/90

Abstract: Example apparatus disclosed herein are to obtain a first hash key, a second hash key and a third hash key representative of first reference media in response to a first query of a first table, the second hash key associated with a second time preceding a first time associated with the first hash key, the third hash key associated with a third time following the first time associated with the first hash key. Disclosed example apparatus are also to prequalify the first hash key as a candidate for subsequent signature processing associated with a first site signature in response to a determination that the second hash key corresponds to a second site signature preceding the first site signature in time and that the third hash key corresponds to a third site signature following the first site signature in time.

公开(公告)号：US11910046B2

公开(公告)日：2024-02-20

申请号：US17883510

申请日：2022-08-08

Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC

Inventor： F. Gavin McMillan

IPC: H04N21/2668 ,  H04N21/45 ,  H04N21/24 ,  H04N21/44 ,  H04N21/234 ,  H04H60/44 ,  H04H60/56 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/233 ,  H04N21/438 ,  H04N21/439 ,  H04N21/443 ,  H04N21/6543 ,  H04N21/8358 ,  H04N21/845 ,  G06F16/245 ,  H04H60/31 ,  H04H60/66

CPC classification number: H04N21/2668 ,  G06F16/245 ,  H04H60/31 ,  H04H60/44 ,  H04H60/56 ,  H04H60/66 ,  H04N21/233 ,  H04N21/23418 ,  H04N21/2407 ,  H04N21/4383 ,  H04N21/4394 ,  H04N21/443 ,  H04N21/44008 ,  H04N21/44224 ,  H04N21/4524 ,  H04N21/6543 ,  H04N21/8358 ,  H04N21/8456 ,  H04H2201/50 ,  H04H2201/90

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to verify and/or correct media lineup information are disclosed. Disclosed example apparatus include means for determining reference media, the means for determining reference media to identify a plurality of first signatures in a database that matches a plurality of second signatures included in media presentation data representative of media output by a media device in response to a mismatch between the media presentation data and reference data associated with first reference media corresponding to a first station, the plurality of second signatures generated from the media output by the media device; and determine second reference media corresponding to the plurality of first signatures; and means for storing the media presentation data.

公开(公告)号：US11902618B2

公开(公告)日：2024-02-13

申请号：US18158348

申请日：2023-01-23

Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC

Inventor： Christen V. Nielsen ,  David H. Wright ,  Charles C. Conklin ,  Daniel Nelson

IPC: H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/439 ,  H04N21/44 ,  H04N21/84 ,  H04N21/254 ,  H04N21/845 ,  H04N21/2662 ,  H04H60/31 ,  H04H60/56 ,  H04N21/8358

CPC classification number: H04N21/44204 ,  H04H60/31 ,  H04H60/56 ,  H04N21/254 ,  H04N21/2662 ,  H04N21/4394 ,  H04N21/44008 ,  H04N21/8358 ,  H04N21/84 ,  H04N21/8456 ,  H04H2201/90

Abstract: Apparatus, systems, articles of manufacture, and methods to identify and credit media using ratios of media characteristics are disclosed herein. Example apparatus to identify media include at least one memory, instructions, and at least one processor to execute the instructions to: determine a first ratio based on a first time interval and a second time interval of a monitored media signal; determine a second ratio based on the second time interval and a third time interval of the monitored media signal; generate a first ratio signature based on the first and second ratios; and initiate transmission of the first ratio signature to a recipient that is to compare the first signature with a second ratio signature to identify the media.

公开(公告)号：US11863821B2

公开(公告)日：2024-01-02

申请号：US18145711

申请日：2022-12-22

Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC

Inventor： Francis Gavin McMillan

IPC: H04N21/442 ,  G06F16/48 ,  G06F16/14 ,  H04H20/14 ,  H04H60/56 ,  H04N21/44 ,  H04N21/84

CPC classification number: H04N21/44204 ,  G06F16/152 ,  G06F16/48 ,  H04H20/14 ,  H04H60/56 ,  H04N21/44008 ,  H04N21/84 ,  H04H2201/90

Abstract: Example local devices disclosed herein include memory including a set of reference fingerprints corresponding to media, the set of reference fingerprints from a remote device different from the local device and one or more processor circuits to execute machine readable instructions to generate a monitored fingerprint of the media presented at a location and compare the monitored fingerprint to at least some of the set of reference fingerprints from the remote device. Additionally, the one or more processor circuits are to determine an amount of time that has passed since the media started and after a match between the monitored fingerprint and one or more reference fingerprints of the set of reference fingerprints, cause transmission of audience measurement information to identify the media, the audience measurement information including data indicative of the amount of time that has passed since the media started.

公开(公告)号：US11863820B2

公开(公告)日：2024-01-02

申请号：US17353391

申请日：2021-06-21

Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC

Inventor： Francis Gavin McMillan

IPC: H04N21/442 ,  G06F16/14 ,  G06F16/48 ,  H04H20/14 ,  H04H60/56 ,  H04N21/44 ,  H04N21/84

CPC classification number: H04N21/44204 ,  G06F16/152 ,  G06F16/48 ,  H04H20/14 ,  H04H60/56 ,  H04N21/44008 ,  H04N21/84 ,  H04H2201/90

Abstract: Example device meters disclosed herein include a signature reporter to report, to a data processor, media signatures of a first type to monitor media presented by a media device Disclosed example device meters also include a signature generator to (i) generate the media signatures of the first type, (ii) generate media signatures of a second type, different from the first type, to continue monitoring the media presented by the media device after receipt, from the data processor, of an indication that a first media signature of the first type is associated with first reference media, and (iii) in response to detection at the device meter of a change in a source of the media presented by the media device, revert to generation of the media signatures of the first type to monitor the media presented by the media device.

公开(公告)号：US20190245709A1

公开(公告)日：2019-08-08

申请号：US16385169

申请日：2019-04-16

Applicant: iHeartMedia Management Services, Inc.

Inventor： Amit Deshpande ,  Jeffrey Lee Littlejohn ,  Abineshraj Rajagopal

IPC: H04L12/18 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04H20/55

CPC classification number: H04L12/1877 ,  H04H20/55 ,  H04H2201/18 ,  H04H2201/90 ,  H04L12/1845 ,  H04L12/189 ,  H04L67/1014

Abstract: Travel-related-information messages (TRIMS) are received from one or more information sources, and information included in the messages is separated into a first (e.g. TPEG™) or second (e.g. TPEG+) group. A broadcast area to which the information included in the TRIMs is to be broadcast is determined. A further determination indicates that a subset of information assigned to the first group is to be reassigned to the second group. The subset of information is reassigned from the first group to the second group based on parameters associated with the broadcast area. The information included in the first group and the second group is delivered to one or more processing modules that generate a first TRIM reporting message using information included in the first group and a second TRIM reporting message using information included in the second group.

公开(公告)号：US20180248636A1

公开(公告)日：2018-08-30

申请号：US15958767

申请日：2018-04-20

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.

公开(公告)号：US10063940B1

公开(公告)日：2018-08-28

申请号：US15703410

申请日：2017-09-13

Applicant: Network-1 Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Ingemar J. Cox

IPC: H04N21/43 ,  H04N21/84 ,  G06F17/30 ,  H04N21/478 ,  H04N21/44 ,  H04N21/858 ,  H04N21/61 ,  H04N21/258

CPC classification number: H04L67/1095 ,  G06F16/248 ,  G06F16/285 ,  G06F16/29 ,  G06F16/40 ,  G06F16/43 ,  G06F16/433 ,  G06F16/434 ,  G06F16/48 ,  G06F16/51 ,  G06F16/532 ,  G06F16/5838 ,  G06F16/5866 ,  G06F16/73 ,  G06F16/951 ,  G06F16/9535 ,  G06F16/9566 ,  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 ,  H04M1/72583 ,  H04N21/23418 ,  H04N21/2407 ,  H04N21/25841 ,  H04N21/43 ,  H04N21/4394 ,  H04N21/44008 ,  H04N21/47815 ,  H04N21/4788 ,  H04N21/6125 ,  H04N21/812 ,  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.

公开(公告)号：US10021457B2

公开(公告)日：2018-07-10

申请号：US15054678

申请日：2016-02-26

Applicant: Mobile Research Labs, Ltd.

Inventor： Aron Weiss ,  Omri Halevi ,  Hezi Manus ,  Dave Springer

IPC: H04N21/4722 ,  G06F17/30 ,  H04H60/64 ,  H04H60/65 ,  H04H60/58 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  G10L19/018 ,  H04H60/40

CPC classification number: H04N21/4722 ,  G06F16/433 ,  G06F16/632 ,  G06F16/634 ,  G06F16/683 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  G10L19/018 ,  H04H60/40 ,  H04H60/58 ,  H04H60/64 ,  H04H60/65 ,  H04H2201/90

Abstract: A computerized method for engaging a user of a mobile computer system. The mobile computer system may be connectible to a server over a wide area network. An audio signal of ambient audio is autonomously sampled in the vicinity of the mobile computer system to capture one or more audio samples of the audio signal. The multiple samples of the audio signal are autonomously sampled without requiring any interaction from the user, thus avoiding an input from the user to capture each of the samples. The audio sample may be processed to extract an audio signature of the audio sample. The audio signature may be compared with multiple previously stored reference audio signatures. Upon matching the audio signature with at least one reference audio signature a matched reference audio signature may be produced.

公开(公告)号：US20180157666A1

公开(公告)日：2018-06-07

申请号：US15808292

申请日：2017-11-09

Applicant: Cortica, Ltd.

Inventor： Igal RAICHELGAUZ ,  Karina ODINAEV ,  Yehoshua Y. ZEEVI

IPC: G06F17/30 ,  H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/466 ,  H04N21/2668 ,  H04N21/258 ,  H04N7/173 ,  H04H20/10 ,  H04H60/66 ,  H04H60/56 ,  H04H60/46 ,  H04H60/37 ,  H04H20/26 ,  H04L29/08

CPC classification number: G06F16/4393 ,  G06Q10/10 ,  G06Q50/01 ,  H04H20/103 ,  H04H20/26 ,  H04H60/37 ,  H04H60/40 ,  H04H60/46 ,  H04H60/56 ,  H04H60/66 ,  H04H60/73 ,  H04H2201/90 ,  H04L67/10 ,  H04L67/306 ,  H04N7/17318 ,  H04N21/25891 ,  H04N21/2668 ,  H04N21/466 ,  H04N21/8106

Abstract: A system and method for determining a social relativeness between at least two entities depicted in at least one multimedia content element (MMCE). The method includes analyzing at least one MMCE, wherein the analyzing further includes generating at least one signature to the at least one MMCE; identifying, based on the generated at least one signature, the at least two entities depicted in the at least one MMCE; and generating, based on the analysis, a social linking score for the at least two entities, wherein the social linking score represents a social relativeness of the at least two entities.