FLEXIBLE COMMERCIAL MONITORING
    3.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240187708A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-06

    申请号:US18443608

    申请日:2024-02-16

    摘要: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to implement flexible commercial monitoring for television audience measurement are disclosed. Example television audience measurement systems disclosed herein include a flexible commercial detector to detect whether a first watermark decoded from a television program broadcast signal is a bridge watermark that indicates a portion of the television broadcast signal including the bridge watermark is associated with a flexible commercial insertion event, the flexible commercial insertion event corresponding to insertion of a flexible commercial in the portion of the television broadcast signal. Disclosed example television audience measurement systems also include a commercial metric calculator to credit audience exposure associated with the portion of the television broadcast signal to a flexible commercial crediting metric in response to a determination that the first watermark is the bridge watermark.

    Gathering research data
    5.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11832036B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-28

    申请号:US17728923

    申请日:2022-04-25

    摘要: Systems and methods for gathering research data using multiple monitoring devices are provided. An example method includes accessing, at a first monitoring device and a second monitoring device, first timing data produced by an external source, the first monitoring device located remotely from the second monitoring device. The example method additionally includes adjusting second timing data generated by the first monitoring device based on the first timing data and adjusting third timing data generated by the second monitoring device based on the first timing data. The example method also includes accessing, at a processing facility, the first timing data and adjusting fourth timing data generated by the processing facility based on the first timing data.

    SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ORPHANED SENSOR DISCOVERY AND REPORTING

    公开(公告)号:US20230349726A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-02

    申请号:US18142300

    申请日:2023-05-02

    摘要: A utility sensor module includes one or more sensors, a communication link, and an electronic processor. The electronic processor is configured to broadcast an advertisement signal associated with a communication protocol for a first transmission time. The advertisement signal is configured to cause an external device to transmit a response message. The electronic processor is further configured to determine whether the response message is received within a predetermined time period, and in response to determining that the response message was not received within the predetermined time period, operating in a modified sleep mode. Operating in the modified sleep mode includes modifying the operation of the communication interface to broadcast the advertisement signal at a periodic interval, such that the advertisement signal is only broadcast at the periodic interval for a second transmission time.

    Transmission apparatus, transmission method, reception apparatus, and reception method

    公开(公告)号:US11770595B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-26

    申请号:US16634612

    申请日:2018-07-27

    摘要: The present technology relates to a transmission apparatus, a transmission method, a reception apparatus, and a reception method that make it possible to detect a watermark more easily. The transmission apparatus includes a generation section and a transmission section. The generation section generates watermark information for detecting a watermark. The transmission section transmits a broadcast signal including the watermark and the watermark information. When the transmission apparatus is provided, it enables the reception apparatus at a receiving end to detect the watermark more easily. The present technology is applicable, for example, to a transmission system including the transmission apparatus and the reception apparatus.

    Determining metrics characterizing numbers of unique members of media audiences

    公开(公告)号:US11669761B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-06-06

    申请号:US17164486

    申请日:2021-02-01

    摘要: Example methods disclosed herein include accessing a query requesting a metric associated with a number of unique members of an audience of media over an aggregate monitoring interval corresponding to a plurality of component monitoring intervals. Disclosed example methods also include determining respective aggregate interval probability distributions modeling likelihoods of respective monitored individuals being exposed to the media during the aggregate monitoring interval, a first one of the aggregate interval probability distributions for a first one of the monitored individuals being determined by combining parameters of respective component interval probability distributions modeling likelihoods of the first one of the monitored individuals being exposed to the media during respective ones of the component monitoring intervals. Disclosed example methods further include evaluating an audience-level probability distribution determined from the aggregate interval probability distributions to determine the metric to transmit to the computing device in response to the query.