公开(公告)号：US20230120280A1

公开(公告)日：2023-04-20

申请号：US17947878

申请日：2022-09-19

Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC

Inventor： Vladimir Kuznetsov ,  Alexander Topchy

IPC: H04N21/8358 ,  H04N21/24 ,  H04N21/2389 ,  H04N21/8352

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to extend a time range supported by a watermark are disclosed. Example watermark encoding apparatus disclosed herein determine which one of a plurality of timestamp cycles is to be represented by a timestamp of a watermark. Disclosed example apparatus also swap at least two symbols of the watermark when the timestamp is to represent a second one of the timestamp cycles, but do not swap the at least two symbols of the watermark when the timestamp is to represent a first one of the timestamp cycles. Disclosed example apparatus further embed the watermark in a first piece of media.

公开(公告)号：US11546674B2

公开(公告)日：2023-01-03

申请号：US17332636

申请日：2021-05-27

Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC

Inventor： Alexander Topchy ,  Vladimir Kuznetsov

IPC: H04H60/32 ,  H04N21/8358 ,  H04N21/24 ,  H04N21/2389 ,  H04N21/8352

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to extend a time range supported by a watermark are disclosed. Example watermark encoding apparatus disclosed herein determine which one of a plurality of timestamp cycles is to be represented by a timestamp of a watermark, the timestamp including a set of timestamp symbols, a first subset of data symbols and a second subset of data symbols. Disclosed example apparatus also modify the first subset of data symbols of the watermark based on a further timestamp symbol not included in the set of timestamp symbols of the timestamp, but not modify the second subset of data symbols based on the further timestamp symbol, the further timestamp symbol to identify the one of the plurality of timestamp cycles to be represented by the timestamp of the watermark. Disclosed example apparatus further embed the watermark in a piece of media.

公开(公告)号：US20220415331A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-29

申请号：US17356465

申请日：2021-06-23

Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC

Inventor： Alexander Topchy ,  Timothy Scott Cooper ,  Jeremey M. Davis

IPC: G10L17/22 ,  G10L19/018

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for panelist-based logins using voice commands are disclosed herein. A disclosed example apparatus for identifying a user as a member of an audience includes a memory and at least one processor to execute machine readable instructions to at least access audio emitted by a speech recognition system, the audio generated based on a request spoken by the user, identify at least one of a watermark or a fingerprint included in the audio, the watermark or fingerprint including identifying information to identify a user and an indication of the presence of the user, and record the indication of the presence of the user in an audience.

公开(公告)号：US11451884B2

公开(公告)日：2022-09-20

申请号：US17332643

申请日：2021-05-27

Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC

Inventor： Vladimir Kuznetsov ,  Alexander Topchy

IPC: H04H60/32 ,  H04N21/8358 ,  H04N21/24 ,  H04N21/2389 ,  H04N21/8352

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to extend a time range supported by a watermark are disclosed. Example watermark encoding apparatus disclosed herein determine which one of a plurality of timestamp cycles is to be represented by a timestamp of a watermark. Disclosed example apparatus also swap at least two symbols of the watermark when the timestamp is to represent a second one of the timestamp cycles, but do not swap the at least two symbols of the watermark when the timestamp is to represent a first one of the timestamp cycles. Disclosed example apparatus further embed the watermark in a first piece of media.

公开(公告)号：US11316603B2

公开(公告)日：2022-04-26

申请号：US17140914

申请日：2021-01-04

Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC

Inventor： Alexander Topchy ,  Venugopal Srinivasan

IPC: H04H60/59 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04H60/58 ,  H04H60/37 ,  H04N21/4363 ,  H04N21/439 ,  H04N21/44

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for determining increasing robustness of media signatures are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a characteristic analyzer to determine a first difference between (A) a first characteristic of an audio signal at a first time and (B) a second characteristic of the audio signal at a second time. The apparatus further includes a characteristic enhancer to compare the first difference to a first threshold; at least one of (A) boost the first characteristic of the audio signal at the first time or (B) attenuate the second characteristic of the audio signal at the second time when the first difference does not satisfy the threshold to create an enhanced audio signal; and determine whether a second difference between a third characteristic of the enhanced audio signal at the first time and a fourth characteristic of the enhanced audio signal at the second time satisfies the threshold, the third characteristic corresponding to the first characteristic, the fourth characteristic corresponding to the second characteristic.

公开(公告)号：US20220122618A1

公开(公告)日：2022-04-21

申请号：US17565167

申请日：2021-12-29

Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC

Inventor： Alexander Topchy ,  Padmanabhan Soundararajan ,  Venugopal Srinivasan

IPC: G10L19/018 ,  H04H60/45

Abstract: Disclosed example people monitoring methods include detecting a first watermark in a first audio signal obtained from an acoustic sensor, the first watermark identifying media presented by a monitored media device, determining whether a second watermark, different from the first watermark, is embedded in the first audio signal obtained from the acoustic sensor, the second watermark identifying at least one of a mobile device or a user of the mobile device, classifying the second watermark as a media watermark or a people monitoring watermark based on a characteristic of the second watermark, and when the second watermark is determined to be embedded in the first audio signal, reporting at least one of the second watermark or information decoded from the second watermark to identify at least one of the mobile device or the user of the mobile device as being exposed to the media presented by the monitored media device.

公开(公告)号：US20220094997A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-24

申请号：US17389027

申请日：2021-07-29

Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC

Inventor： Jeremey M. Davis ,  David H. Wright ,  Alexander Topchy ,  Cherisse Ponraj ,  Chris Curtis ,  Jonathan Chazen ,  Markus Kurt Cremer ,  Sharmishtha Gupta ,  Jeffrey Scott

IPC: H04N21/2389 ,  H04N21/234 ,  H04N21/233 ,  H04N21/845 ,  H04N21/8358 ,  H04N21/262 ,  H04N21/81

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for affiliate interrupt detection. An example method disclosed herein includes determining whether a first time period of a first audio signal corresponds to a first affiliate interrupt period based on whether (1) a first type of watermark is detected in the first time period of the first audio signal, and (2) a second type of watermark is detected in the first audio signal outside the first time period but not in the first time period of the first audio signal, and determining whether the first time period of the first audio signal corresponds to the first affiliate interrupt period when watermarks are not detected in the first time period of the first audio signal based on comparison of first signatures with second signatures representing a corresponding first time period of a reference audio signal.

公开(公告)号：US20220086531A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-17

申请号：US17379765

申请日：2021-07-19

Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC

Inventor： Padmanabhan Soundararajan ,  Venugopal Srinivasan ,  Alexander Topchy

IPC: H04N21/6587 ,  H04N21/435 ,  H04N21/414 ,  H04N21/4367 ,  H04N21/81 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  G06Q30/00 ,  H04N21/41 ,  H04N21/422

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to present supplemental media on a second screen are disclosed. An example method includes establishing a connection between a digital media device and a computing device based on information identifying the computing device and, in response to establishing the connection, receiving, at the computing device, a first notification from the digital media device including a location of supplemental media; accessing the supplemental media; and in response to accessing the supplemental media, sending a second notification that the supplemental media has been accessed, the second notification to enable media skipping on the digital media device.

公开(公告)号：US11082730B2

公开(公告)日：2021-08-03

申请号：US16588970

申请日：2019-09-30

Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC

Inventor： Jeremey M. Davis ,  David H. Wright ,  Alexander Topchy ,  Cherisse Ponraj ,  Chris Curtis ,  Jonathan Chazen ,  Markus Kurt Cremer ,  Sharmishtha Gupta ,  Jeffrey Scott

IPC: H04N21/233 ,  H04N21/2389 ,  H04N21/234 ,  H04N21/845 ,  H04N21/8358 ,  H04N21/262 ,  H04N21/81

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for affiliate interrupt detection. An example method disclosed herein includes determining whether a first time period of a first audio signal corresponds to a first affiliate interrupt period based on whether (1) a first type of watermark is detected in the first time period of the first audio signal, and (2) a second type of watermark is detected in the first audio signal outside the first time period but not in the first time period of the first audio signal, and determining whether the first time period of the first audio signal corresponds to the first affiliate interrupt period when watermarks are not detected in the first time period of the first audio signal based on comparison of first signatures with second signatures representing a corresponding first time period of a reference audio signal.

公开(公告)号：US20210160638A1

公开(公告)日：2021-05-27

申请号：US17170472

申请日：2021-02-08

Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC

Inventor： Marc Messier ,  James Joseph Vitt ,  Venugopal Srinivasan ,  Alexander Topchy

IPC: H04R29/00 ,  G10L19/018

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to analyze microphone placement for watermarks and signatures are disclosed. An example instructions cause one or more processors to at least determine a variance of a magnitude spectrum of a frequency band corresponding to a frequency spectrum of a first audio signal sensed with an audio sensor. The example instructions further cause the one or more processors to determine, based on the variance, a recovery rate associated with at least one of watermark detection or signature generation to be performed on a second audio signal to be sensed with the audio sensor.