Patents Assigned to Nielsen Consumer LLC
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Patent number: 12288405Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for text extraction from a receipt image. An example non-transitory computer readable medium comprises instructions that, when executed, cause a machine to at least improve region of interest detection efficiency by converting pixels of an input receipt image from a first format to a second format, generate a binary representation of the input receipt image based on the converted pixels, the binary representation of the input receipt image corresponding to saturation values for respective ones of the converted pixels, calculate mirror data from the binary representation of the input receipt image, and cluster the binary representation of the input receipt image to identify a first set of candidate regions of interest, the candidate regions of interest characterized by portions of the binary representation of the input receipt image having saturation values that satisfy a threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2022Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: NIELSEN CONSUMER LLCInventors: Venkadachalam Ramalingam, Sricharan Amarnath, Raju Kumar Allam, Sreenidhi N. Upadhya, Kannan Shanmuganathan, Hussain Masthan
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Patent number: 12277786Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to categorize image text. An example apparatus includes region detection model training circuitry to identify candidate regions in an input image that include text, and generate bounding boxes around respective ones of the identified candidate regions. The example apparatus also includes mask application circuitry to improve optical character recognition (OCR) by applying a mask to the input image, wherein the mask removes content of the input image except for portions of the input image within the bounding boxes, and OCR circuitry to perform OCR on the masked input image to obtain text data within the bounding boxes.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2023Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Nielsen Consumer LLCInventors: Roberto Arroyo, David Jiménez, Javier Martínez Cebrián
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Patent number: 12229805Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for processing an image using visual and textual information. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, instructions in the apparatus, and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to detect regions of interest corresponding to a product promotion of an input digital leaflet, extract textual features from the product promotion by applying an optical character recognition (OCR) algorithm to the product promotion and associating output text data with corresponding ones of the regions of interest, determine a search attribute corresponding to the product promotion, generate a first dataset of candidate products corresponding to the product in the product promotion by comparing the search attribute against a second dataset of products, and select a product from the first dataset of candidate products to associate with the product promotion, the product selected based on a match determination.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2021Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Nielsen Consumer LLCInventors: Javier Martínez Cebrián, Roberto Arroyo, David Jiménez
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Patent number: 12229741Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed that decode purchase data using an image. An example apparatus includes a dictionary including associated product descriptions and barcodes, interface circuitry, and processing circuitry to execute machine readable instructions to obtain purchase details and barcodes corresponding to a receipt, the purchase details including receipt product descriptions, generate a search query that includes a first receipt product description of the receipt product descriptions, a list of barcodes corresponding to the barcodes, and a store identifier associated with the receipt, execute a search against the dictionary using the search query to identify a barcode from the list of barcodes that corresponds to the first receipt product description, and in response to identifying the barcode that corresponds to the first receipt product description, associating the barcode and the first receipt product description and adding the association to the dictionary.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Nielsen Consumer LLCInventors: Jose Javier Yebes Torres, Aditi Sinha, Christine Lebrun, Fabio Oppini, Atul Bansal, Mukul Kumar, Vignesh Chandramouli, Filipa Sousa, Gisella Mercaldi
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Patent number: 12190575Abstract: Example image processing methods, apparatus/systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes an image recognition application to identify matches between stored patterns and objects detected in a shelf image, where the shelf image has a shelf image scale estimate. The example apparatus further includes a scale corrector to calculate deviation values between sizes of (A) a first set of the objects detected in the shelf image and (B) a first set of the stored patterns matched with the first set of the objects and reduce an error of the shelf image scale estimate by calculating a scale correction value for the shelf image scale estimate based on the deviation values.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Nielsen Consumer LLCInventors: Antonio Hurtado García, Francisco Javier Martin, Diego García Morate
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Patent number: 12190618Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to decode receipts based on neural graph architecture. An apparatus includes interface circuitry to obtain an image of a document; machine readable instructions; and programmable circuitry to execute the machine readable instructions to at least generate nodes for a feature graph based on features extracted from text boxes, the nodes including polar coordinates indicative of angular positions of the text boxes; pass the feature graph through a graph neural network to generate an adjacency matrix; and identify text lines in the image of the document by clustering the nodes by line based on the adjacency matrix.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Nielsen Consumer LLCInventors: Dayron Rizo Rodriguez, Jose Javier Yebes Torres
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Patent number: 12182703Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to analyze characteristics of text of interest using a computing system. An example apparatus includes a text detector to provide text data from a first image, the first image including a first text region of interest and a second text region not of interest, a color-coding generator to generate a plurality of color-coded text-map images, the plurality of color-coded text-map images including color-coded segments with different colors, the color-coded segments corresponding to different text characteristics, and a convolutional neural network (CNN) to determine a first location in the first image as more likely to be the first text region of interest than a second location in the first image corresponding to the second text region that is not of interest based on performing a CNN analysis on the first image and the plurality of color-coded text-map images.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2019Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Nielsen Consumer LLCInventors: Roberto Arroyo, Javier Tovar Velasco, Francisco Javier Delgado Del Hoyo, Diego González Serrador, Emilio Almazán, Antonio Hurtado
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Patent number: 12183049Abstract: Example methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to classify labels based on images using artificial intelligence are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a regional proposal network to determine a first bounding box for a first region of interest in a first input image of a product; and determine a second bounding box for a second region of interest in a second input image of the product; a neural network to: generate a first classification for a first label in the first input image using the first bounding box; and generate a second classification for a second label in the second input image using the second bounding box; a comparator to determine that the first input image and the second input image correspond to a same product; and a report generator to link the first classification and the second classification to the product.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2023Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Nielsen Consumer LLCInventors: Roberto Arroyo, David Jiménez-Cabello, Javier Martínez Cebrián
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Patent number: 12175782Abstract: Methods, systems, articles of manufacture and apparatus are disclosed to label text on images. An example apparatus includes colorizer circuitry to apply color to text boxes corresponding to optical character recognition (OCR) data associated with an image, OCR manager circuitry to render an OCR text prompt associated with the OCR data, the OCR text prompt to be rendered proximate to respective ones of the text boxes, the OCR text prompt to display a text portion of the OCR data, and edit circuitry to (a) render an interface in response to selection of the OCR text prompt, the interface populated with the text portion of the OCR data, and (b) in response to an overwrite input to the interface, update the text portion of the OCR data in a memory corresponding to the image.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Nielsen Consumer LLCInventors: Ravindra Gadde, Jose Javier Yebes Torres, Dayron Rizo Rodriguez
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Patent number: 12167920Abstract: Example headsets and electrodes are described herein. Example electrode units described herein include a housing having a cavity defined by an opening in a side of the housing and an electrode. In some such examples, the electrode includes a ring disposed in the opening and an arm, where the arm has a first portion extending outward from the opening away from the housing and a second portion extending from an end of the first portion toward the housing and into the cavity, and the first and second portions connect at a bend.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2023Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Nielsen Consumer LLCInventors: Marko Jovanovic, Kashyap Fruitwala, Mohammad Moradi, Batia Bertho, Reimond Bausse, Mehran Mahinpour Tirooni, Yakob Badower
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Patent number: 11983247Abstract: Methods, systems, articles of manufacture, and apparatus to recalibrate confidences for image classification are disclosed. An example apparatus to classify an image includes an image crop detector to detect a first image crop from the image, the first image crop corresponding to a first object, a grouping controller to select a second image crop corresponding to a second object at a location of the first object, a prediction generator to, in response to executing a trained model, determine a label corresponding to the first object and a confidence level associated with the label, and a confidence recalibrator to recalibrate the confidence level based on a probability of the first object having a first attribute based on the second object having a second attribute, the confidence level recalibrated to increase an accuracy of the image classification.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: NIELSEN CONSUMER LLCInventors: Emilio Almazan, Aitor Aller Beascoechea, Javier Tovar Velasco
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Patent number: 11853347Abstract: Examples methods, apparatus/systems and articles of manufacture for auditing point-of-sale images are disclosed herein. Example methods disclosed herein include comparing a region of interest of an image displayed via a user interface with a plurality of reference product images stored in a database to identify a plurality of candidate product images from the plurality of reference product images as potential matches to a first product depicted in the image. For example, the candidate product images are associated with respective confidence levels indicating respective likelihoods of matching the first product. Disclosed example methods also include displaying, via the user interface, the candidate product images simultaneously with the image in a manner based on the respective confidence levels, and automatically selecting a first one of the candidate product images as matching the first product based on the respective confidence levels.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Nielsen Consumer, LLCInventors: Diego García Morate, Antonio Hurtado García, Jorge Martin Martin, Miguel Garcia Carranza
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Patent number: 11842358Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed to model consumer choices.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Nielsen Consumer LLCInventor: John G Wagner
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Patent number: 11822216Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for document scanning are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a base structured to position a mobile device, the base including an opening corresponding to a camera of the mobile device, and at least two side panels couplable to and foldable toward the base, the side panels to maintain a first distance between the base and a target document, the side panels slidable along the target document.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Nielsen Consumer LLCInventors: Mahesh Talpade, Sumit Rastogi, Sricharan Amarnath
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Patent number: 11810380Abstract: Methods, apparatus, and articles manufacture to decode documents based on images using artificial intelligence are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a model executor to input an image into a first artificial intelligence (AI)-based model to generate detected columns of text in the image; and input the image into a second AI-based model to classify the detected columns into categories; a cell identifier to identify rows or cells in the detected columns; and a report generator to: link information corresponding to the rows or cells in the detected columns with corresponding categories; and generating a report based on the linked information.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2020Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: NIELSEN CONSUMER LLCInventors: Roberto Arroyo, Jose Javier Yebes Torres, Aitor Aller Beascoechea, Francisco Javier Delgado del Hoyo, Dayron Rizo Rodriguez, Ravindra Gadde
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Patent number: 11803883Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatus, and tangible non-transitory carrier media encoded with one or more computer programs for classifying an item. In accordance with particular embodiments, a labeling task is issued to workers participating in a crowdsourcing system. The labeling task includes evaluating an inferred classification that includes one or more of the class labels in a hierarchical classification taxonomy based at least in part on a description of the item and the class labels in the classification. Evaluation decisions are received from the crowdsourcing system. The classification is validated based on the evaluation decisions to obtain a validation result. The validating includes applying at least one consensus criterion to an aggregation of the received evaluation decisions. Data corresponding to one or more of the class labels in the classification is routed to respective destinations based on the validation result.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2019Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: NIELSEN CONSUMER LLCInventors: Ming-Kuang Daniel Wu, Chu-Cheng Hsieh
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Patent number: 11790393Abstract: An example system includes an analyzer to identify a degree of amplitude synchrony between a first pattern in a first frequency band in first neuro-response data and a second pattern in a second frequency band in the first neuro-response data, the first neuro-response data gathered via a first modality of collection from a subject while the subject is exposed to media, and modify the degree of amplitude synchrony in response to activity in second neuro-response data, the second neuro-response data gathered via a second modality of collection from the subject while the subject is exposed to the media, the activity corresponding in time to at least a portion of the first pattern or the second pattern. The example system includes an estimator to determine an effectiveness of the media based on the modified degree of amplitude synchrony.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Nielsen Consumer LLCInventors: A. K. Pradeep, Robert T. Knight, Ramachandran Gurumoorthy
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Patent number: 11768993Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for receipt decoding. An example apparatus includes processor circuitry to execute instructions to extract text from the receipt image, the text including bounding boxes; associate ones of the bounding boxes to link horizontally related fields of a the receipt image by selecting a first bounding box; identifying first horizontally aligned bounding boxes, the first horizontally aligned bounding boxes to include at least one bounding box of the bounding boxes that is horizontally aligned relative to the first bounding box; adding the first horizontally aligned bounding boxes to a word sync list; and connecting ones of the first horizontally aligned bounding boxes and the first bounding box based on at least one of an amount of the first horizontally aligned bounding boxes in the word sync list and a relationship among the first horizontally aligned bounding boxes and the first bounding box.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2022Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Nielsen Consumer LLCInventors: Kannan Shanmuganathan, Hussain Masthan, Padmanabhan Soundararajan, Jose Javier Yebes Torres, Raju Kumar Allam
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Patent number: 11763340Abstract: An example system includes an analyzer to identify first activity in first neuro-response data, the first activity generated in response to exposure of a subject to a first stimulus prior to exposure to an advertisement or entertainment; identify second activity in second neuro-response data, the second activity generated in response to re-exposure of the subject to the first stimulus after to exposure to the advertisement or entertainment; calculate a differential event related potential measurement; and calculate a differential event related power spectral perturbation. The example system includes a resonance estimator to determine a subject resonance measurement to the advertisement or the entertainment based on the differential event related potential measurement and adjust at least one of the subject resonance measurement or the differential event related potential measurement based on the differential event related power spectral perturbation to generate an adjusted subject resonance measurement.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2022Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Nielsen Consumer LLCInventors: Anantha Pradeep, Robert T. Knight, Ramachandran Gurumoorthy
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Patent number: 11715292Abstract: An example apparatus includes a feature extractor to generate a first image descriptor based on a first image of a first retail product tag corresponding to a first category, the first image descriptor representative of one or more visual features of the first retail product tag; a feature descriptor generator to generate a feature descriptor corresponding to the first retail product tag by concatenating the first image descriptor and a first category signature corresponding to the first retailer category; and a classifier to generate a first probability value corresponding to a first type of promotional product tag and a second probability value corresponding to a second type of promotional product tag based on the feature descriptor; and determine whether the first retail product tag corresponds to the first type of promotional product tag or the second type of promotional product tag based on the first and second probability values.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: Nielsen Consumer LLCInventors: Emilio Almazán, Javier Tovar Velasco, Roberto Arroyo, Diego González Serrador