Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Audio watermarking for people monitoring
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Application No.: US14332055Application Date: 2014-07-15
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Publication No.: US10410643B2Publication Date: 2019-09-10
- Inventor: Alexander Topchy , Padmanabhan Soundararajan , Venugopal Srinivasan
- Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
- Applicant Address: US NY New York
- Assignee: The Nielson Company (US), LLC
- Current Assignee: The Nielson Company (US), LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US NY New York
- Agency: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC
- Main IPC: G10L19/018
- IPC: G10L19/018 ; H04H60/45 ; H04H60/51

Abstract:
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to utilize audio watermarking for people monitoring are disclosed. Example people monitoring methods disclosed herein include determining, at a user device, whether a first trigger condition for emitting an audio watermark identifying at least one of the user device or a user of the user device is satisfied. Such example methods also include, in response to determining that the first trigger condition is satisfied, providing a first audio signal including the audio watermark to an audio circuit that is to output an acoustic signal from the user device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160019901A1 AUDIO WATERMARKING FOR PEOPLE MONITORING Public/Granted day:2016-01-21
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