公开(公告)号：US20250063223A1

公开(公告)日：2025-02-20

申请号：US18937196

申请日：2024-11-05

Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC

Inventor： Alexander Topchy ,  Vladimir Kuznetsov

IPC: H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/235 ,  H04N21/24 ,  H04N21/258

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to determine media viewing information for hybrid content delivery are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, machine readable instructions, and processor circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to monitor network traffic associated with at least one device during a media session, determine viewing information associated with the media session based on a consumption data message in the network traffic, the consumption data message transmitted by the at least one device, determine a program identifier of primary content received by the at least one device, the program identifier indicative of a program presented as the primary content by the at least one device, associate a panelist identifier with the viewing information and the program identifier of the primary content, and generate a media session report based on the panelist identifier, the viewing information, and the program identifier.

公开(公告)号：US20240430505A1

公开(公告)日：2024-12-26

申请号：US18826532

申请日：2024-09-06

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 ,  H04N21/233 ,  H04N21/234 ,  H04N21/262 ,  H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/8358 ,  H04N21/845

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：US20240414490A1

公开(公告)日：2024-12-12

申请号：US18330554

申请日：2023-06-07

Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC

Inventor： Alexander Topchy ,  Justin Dan Mathew ,  Jeremey M. Davis ,  Vladimir Kuznetsov

IPC: H04S7/00 ,  H04R5/04

Abstract: To facilitate communicating payload data to a destination, a computing system varies audio-rendering-directive metadata over time in a manner that represents the payload data and outputs the varied audio-rendering-directive metadata over time for communication along with an audio stream to the destination to facilitate rendering of the audio stream at the destination in accordance with the varied audio-rendering-directive metadata over time. The rendering of the audio stream at the destination conveys the payload data by being in accordance with the varied audio-rendering-directive metadata over time that represents the payload data. Thus, an audio meter operating at the destination could detect associated variation in the rendered audio stream and map that detected variation in the rendered audio stream to the payload data, thereby receiving the payload data. Varying the audio-rendering-directive metadata over time could involve varying audio-loudness specifications over time and/or varying spatial-audio specifications over time, among other possibilities.

公开(公告)号：US20240412748A1

公开(公告)日：2024-12-12

申请号：US18330436

申请日：2023-06-07

Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC

Inventor： Alexander Topchy ,  Justin Dan Mathew ,  Jeremey M. Davis ,  Vladimir Kuznetsov

IPC: G10L19/16

Abstract: To facilitate communicating payload data to a destination, a computing system varies audio-rendering-directive metadata over time in a manner that represents the payload data and outputs the varied audio-rendering-directive metadata over time for communication along with an audio stream to the destination to facilitate rendering of the audio stream at the destination in accordance with the varied audio-rendering-directive metadata over time. The rendering of the audio stream at the destination conveys the payload data by being in accordance with the varied audio-rendering-directive metadata over time that represents the payload data. Thus, an audio meter operating at the destination could detect associated variation in the rendered audio stream and map that detected variation in the rendered audio stream to the payload data, thereby receiving the payload data. Varying the audio-rendering-directive metadata over time could involve varying audio-loudness specifications over time and/or varying spatial-audio specifications over time, among other possibilities.

公开(公告)号：US12143658B2

公开(公告)日：2024-11-12

申请号：US17958076

申请日：2022-09-30

Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC

Inventor： Alexander Topchy ,  John Stavropoulos

IPC: H04N21/414 ,  G01P15/00 ,  H04N21/41

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example apparatus includes interface circuitry to: obtain primary data from a first meter and a second meter, the primary data including at least one of: (a) acceleration data and (b) short-range wireless communication data; and obtain secondary data from the first meter and the second meter, the secondary data including at least one of: (a) location data and (b) audio data; comparator circuitry to: determine one or more primary factors based on the primary data, the primary factors to include at least one of a correlation coefficient or a difference in connected device sequences; determine one or more secondary factors based on the secondary data; and model executor circuitry to determine, based on the one or more primary factors and the one or more secondary factors, whether the first meter and the second meter correspond to duplicate wear.

公开(公告)号：US20240364979A1

公开(公告)日：2024-10-31

申请号：US18766797

申请日：2024-07-09

Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC

Inventor： Christen V. Nielsen ,  David Gish ,  Ken Joseph Frett ,  Timothy Scott Cooper ,  Alexander Topchy

IPC: H04N21/8358 ,  G06F21/16 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/845

CPC classification number: H04N21/8358 ,  G06F21/16 ,  H04N21/44222 ,  H04N21/8456

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for associating different watermarks detected in media. An example method disclosed herein includes determining whether a first watermark detected in a media signal is represented in a watermark data structure and associating the first watermark with a first media presentation record associated with a second watermark in response to the first watermark being associated in the watermark data structure with the second watermark. The example method further includes transmitting monitoring data including the first media presentation record to an audience measurement entity.

公开(公告)号：US20240265073A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-08

申请号：US18640446

申请日：2024-04-19

Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC

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

IPC: G06F21/16 ,  G06F21/10

CPC classification number: G06F21/16 ,  G06F21/1063

Abstract: Apparatus, systems, methods, and articles of manufacture related to end-point media watermarking are disclosed. An example device includes a media receiver to receive a media signal, a watermark generator to generate a watermark, a trigger to activate the watermark generator to generate the watermark based on an external input, an encoder to encode the media signal with the watermark to synthesize an encoded media signal, a media output to render the encoded media signal.

公开(公告)号：US11843825B2

公开(公告)日：2023-12-12

申请号：US18158315

申请日：2023-01-23

Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC

Inventor： Wendell D. Lynch ,  Christen V. Nielsen ,  Alexander Topchy ,  Khaldun Karazoun ,  Jeremey M. Davis

IPC: H04N21/439 ,  G10L19/018 ,  H04N21/262 ,  H04N21/238

CPC classification number: H04N21/4394 ,  G10L19/018 ,  H04N21/238 ,  H04N21/262 ,  H04N21/4398

Abstract: An example apparatus includes at least one processor circuitry to execute or instantiate instructions to identify a media file is scheduled to be accessed by a media device within a first time period after a publishing of the media file was published by a media provider; select a first symbol to be inserted at a first symbol position and a second symbol to be inserted at a second symbol position to identify an access of the media file is to be accessed by the media device within the first time period, the first symbol position in a first bit sequence, the second symbol position in a second bit sequence; encode the first bit sequence in the media file on a first encoding layer of a multilayered watermark, and encode the second bit sequence in the media file on a second encoding layer of the multilayered watermark.

公开(公告)号：US11812104B2

公开(公告)日：2023-11-07

申请号：US17448343

申请日：2021-09-21

Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC

Inventor： Meryem Berrada ,  Ronny Lerch ,  John Stavropoulos ,  Alexander Topchy ,  John Zoldos

IPC: H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/8358 ,  H04N21/439 ,  H04L67/54 ,  H04L67/50

CPC classification number: H04N21/44218 ,  H04L67/535 ,  H04L67/54 ,  H04N21/4394 ,  H04N21/8358

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to detect a presence status. An example apparatus includes media identification circuitry to generate first signatures representative of first audio data associated with a monitored media device, a comparator to obtain second signatures from a portable meter, the second signatures representative of second audio data sensed by the portable meter and compare the first signatures and the second signatures to determine a comparison result, presence detection circuitry to determine a presence status of a user based on the comparison result, the user associated with the portable meter, and network communication circuitry to transmit the presence status to a data processor to perform audience measurement based on the presence status.

公开(公告)号：US11677996B2

公开(公告)日：2023-06-13

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: H04N21/238 ,  H04N21/2389 ,  H04N21/234 ,  H04N21/233 ,  H04N21/845 ,  H04N21/8358 ,  H04N21/262 ,  H04N21/81

CPC classification number: H04N21/23892 ,  H04N21/233 ,  H04N21/23424 ,  H04N21/26283 ,  H04N21/812 ,  H04N21/8358 ,  H04N21/8456

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.