Audio data receipt/exposure measurement with code monitoring and signature extraction

a technology for audio data and receipt/exposure measurement, applied in the field of audio data receipt/exposure measurement with code monitoring and signature extraction, can solve the problems of increasing economic impracticality, requiring a tremendous amount of data processing, and complicated the task of measuring audience receipt of individual program segments

a technology for audio data and receipt/exposure measurement, applied in the field of audio data receipt/exposure measurement with code monitoring and signature extraction, can solve the problems of increasing economic impracticality, requiring a tremendous amount of data processing, and complicated the task of measuring audience receipt of individual program segments

US20070226760A1Inactive Publication Date: 2007-09-27THE NIELSEN CO (US) LLC +1
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[0054]FIG. 1 illustrates various embodiments of a system 16 including an implementation of the present invention for gathering data reflecting receipt of and / or exposure to audio data. The system 16 includes an audio source 20 that communicates audio data to an audio reproducing system 30. While source 20 and system 30 are shown as separate boxes in FIG. 1, this illustration serves only to represent the path of the audio data, and not necessarily the physical arrangement of the devices. For example, the source 20 and the system 30 may be located either at a single location or at separate locations remote from each other. Further, the source 20 and the system 30 may be, or be located within, separate devices coupled to each other, either permanently or temporarily / intermittently, or one may be a peripheral of the other or of a device of which the other is a part, or both may be located within a single device, as will be further explained below.

[0055] The particular audio data to be ...

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Systems and methods are provided for gathering audience measurement data relating to receipt of and / or exposure to audio data by an audience member. Audio data is monitored to detect a monitoring code. Based on detection of the monitoring code, a signature characterizing the audio data is extracted.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION(S) [0001] This application is a continuation of nonprovisional patent application Ser. No. 10 / 256,834, filed Sep. 27, 2002 and assigned to the assignee of the present invention, and which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0002] The invention relates to systems and methods for gathering data reflecting receipt of, and / or exposure to, audio data by detecting a code in, and extracting a signature from, audio data. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0003] There is considerable interest in identifying and / or measuring the receipt of, and or exposure to, audio data by an audience in order to provide market information to advertisers, media distributors, and the like, to verify airing, to calculate royalties, to detect piracy, and for any other purposes for which an estimation of audience receipt or exposure is desired. [0004] The emergence of multiple, overlapping media distribution pathways, as well as the wide va...

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Application Information

Patent Timeline
27 Sep 2007
Publication
US20070226760A1
IPC
H04H9/00; G10L21/00; H04B1/00; H04B1/06; H04B1/69; H04B17/00; H04H1/00; H04H60/31; H04H60/37; H04H60/58; H04H60/65; H04N
CPC
G10L19/018; H04H60/31; H04H60/37; G10L15/00; H04H60/65; H04H2201/90; H04H60/58
Inventors
NEUHAUSER, ALAN R.; WHITE, THOMAS W.