Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods and apparatus for detecting a composition of an audience of an information presenting device
- Patent Title (中): 用于检测信息呈现装置的观众的组成的方法和装置
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Application No.: US12533629Application Date: 2009-07-31
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Publication No.: US08194923B2Publication Date: 2012-06-05
- Inventor: Arun Ramaswamy , Daniel J. Nelson , Venugopal Srinivasan
- Applicant: Arun Ramaswamy , Daniel J. Nelson , Venugopal Srinivasan
- Applicant Address: US IL Schaumburg
- Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
- Current Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US IL Schaumburg
- Agency: Hanley, Flight & Zimmerman, LLC.
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00 ; G06K9/62

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for detecting a composition of an audience of an information presenting device are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes: capturing at least one image of the audience; determining a number of people within the at least one image; prompting the audience to identify its members if a change in the number of people is detected based on the number of people determined to be within the at least one image; and if a number of members identified by the audience is different from the determined number of people after a predetermined number of prompts of the audience, adjusting a value to avoid excessive prompting of the audience.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090290756A1 METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING A COMPOSITION OF AN AUDIENCE OF AN INFORMATION PRESENTING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2009-11-26
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