Patents by Inventor Edward Stembier

Edward Stembier has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Methods and apparatus to determine audio source impact on an audience of media
    Patent number: 11653062
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to determine audio source impact on an audience of media are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes at least one memory, instructions in the apparatus, and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to: divide audio of monitored media into successive audio segments; perform speaker identification on the audio segments; generate confidence values for speakers identified in the audio segments; generate speaker identification data for ones of the speakers having respective confidence values that satisfy a threshold; and analyze the speaker identification data to determine a speaker impact on audience ratings data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Gregory Milavsky, Hashem Alsaket, James Bartelme, Jan Besehanic, Edward Stembier