Patents by Inventor Meryem Berrada

Meryem Berrada 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).

  • Publication number: 20240079026
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to measure engagement of media consumers based on acoustic environment are disclosed. Example apparatus disclosed herein are to identify media device audio data and ambient environment audio data from sensed audio data collected from an environment, and determine classification data for the media device audio data and the ambient environment audio data. Disclosed example apparatus are also to process the classification data with a machine learning model to calculate an engagement metric. Disclosed example apparatus are further to determine whether at least one individual is engaged with media in the environment based on the engagement metric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Meryem Berrada, John Stavropoulos
  • Publication number: 20240031647
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to detect a presence status. An example apparatus includes media identification circuitry to generate first signatures representative of first audio data associated with a monitored media device, a comparator to obtain second signatures from a portable meter, the second signatures representative of second audio data sensed by the portable meter and compare the first signatures and the second signatures to determine a comparison result, presence detection circuitry to determine a presence status of a user based on the comparison result, the user associated with the portable meter, and network communication circuitry to transmit the presence status to a data processor to perform audience measurement based on the presence status.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Meryem Berrada, Ronny Lerch, John Stavropoulos, Alexander Topchy, John Zoldos
  • Patent number: 11812104
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to detect a presence status. An example apparatus includes media identification circuitry to generate first signatures representative of first audio data associated with a monitored media device, a comparator to obtain second signatures from a portable meter, the second signatures representative of second audio data sensed by the portable meter and compare the first signatures and the second signatures to determine a comparison result, presence detection circuitry to determine a presence status of a user based on the comparison result, the user associated with the portable meter, and network communication circuitry to transmit the presence status to a data processor to perform audience measurement based on the presence status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Meryem Berrada, Ronny Lerch, John Stavropoulos, Alexander Topchy, John Zoldos
  • Publication number: 20230206689
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to measure facial attention are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, machine readable instructions, and processor circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to identify facial landmarks from input image data, the facial landmarks corresponding to coordinates of landmarks of a face detected in the input image data, determine a first distance between a first facial landmark of the facial landmarks and a second facial landmark of the facial landmarks, determine a second distance between the first facial landmark and a third facial landmark of the facial landmarks, and compare a quotient of the first distance and the second distance to a threshold to determine an attentiveness metric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Padmanabhan Soundararajan, Alan Lekah, Meryem Berrada
  • Publication number: 20230086955
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to detect a presence status. An example apparatus includes media identification circuitry to generate first signatures representative of first audio data associated with a monitored media device, a comparator to obtain second signatures from a portable meter, the second signatures representative of second audio data sensed by the portable meter and compare the first signatures and the second signatures to determine a comparison result, presence detection circuitry to determine a presence status of a user based on the comparison result, the user associated with the portable meter, and network communication circuitry to transmit the presence status to a data processor to perform audience measurement based on the presence status.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Meryem Berrada, Ronny Lerch, John Stavropoulos, Alexander Topchy, John Zoldos
  • Publication number: 20220223171
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to measure engagement of media consumers based on acoustic environment are disclosed. Example apparatus disclosed herein are to identify media device audio data and ambient environment audio data from sensed audio data collected from an environment, and determine classification data for the media device audio data and the ambient environment audio data. Disclosed example apparatus are also to process the classification data with a machine learning model to calculate an engagement metric. Disclosed example apparatus are further to determine whether at least one individual is engaged with media in the environment based on the engagement metric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Meryem Berrada, John Stavropoulos