Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to project ratings for future broadcasts of media. Disclosed example methods include normalizing, with a processor, audience measurement data corresponding to media exposure data, social media exposure data and programming information associated with a future quarter to determine normalized audience measurement data. Disclosed example methods also include classifying a media asset based on the programming information to determine a media asset classification.

Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to predict time-shifted exposure to media. An example method includes normalizing, with a processor, audience measurement data corresponding to media exposure data and social media activity data. The example method also includes building an estimation model based on a relationship between a first subset of the normalized audience measurement data associated with a characteristic of the media asset and historical rating lift measurements associated with the media asset. The example method also includes estimating, with the processor, current ratings for the media asset based on time-period based ratings and broadcast time-periods. The example method also includes applying data related to the media asset and the estimated current ratings to the estimation model to estimate, with the processor, the ratings lift for the media asset.

Abstract: A method of defining data patterns for object handling includes obtaining an image of an input data area, processing the image to obtain image data, and comparing the image data with a pattern, wherein the pattern identifies spatial information of corresponding pattern fields of the pattern. The method further includes determining a confidence level of the comparison of the image data according to a success in matching the image data with the pattern fields, comparing the confidence level with a confidence threshold associated with the pattern, and selecting the pattern. A pattern output associated with the selected pattern is identified, wherein the pattern output corresponds to a canonical return format, and the pattern output is applied to the image data.

Abstract: A vent is disclosed that is particularly suited to use in ventilating attic spaces beneath a hip roof. The vent is configured to be installed along a hip of the roof overlying and covering a ventilation slot formed through the roof deck along the hip. The vent includes an elongated laterally flexible top panel from which baffle arrays depend. The baffle arrays are formed of a plurality of depending arcuately curved vanes that arc away from the vent. The vanes are aerodynamically shaped to redirect wind-blown rain and snow away from the vent and are configured to block the migration of rain and snow through the vent. A pair of spongy conformable filler strips is attached beneath the edge portions of the vent. The filler strips conform to the shapes of underlying shingles when the vent is installed to fill any gaps that otherwise might be formed between the vent and the shingles.

Abstract: A disclosed example method to determine audience duplication in cross-media campaigns involves determining a first duplicated audience reach for a demographic group between a total television audience and an internet publisher audience. The total television audience is representative of audience members across a plurality of television networks. The internet publisher audience is representative of audience members of one of a plurality of internet publishers. The example method involves determining a second duplicated audience reach between the total television audience and the internet publisher audience for a media campaign based on the first duplicated audience reach. The example method involves determining a third duplicated audience reach between a television network audience and the internet publisher audience for the media campaign based on the second duplicated audience reach.

Abstract: A disclosed example method to determine audience duplication in cross-media campaigns involves determining a first duplicated audience reach between a total television audience and an internet publisher audience for a demographic group. The total television audience is representative of audience members across a plurality of television networks, and the internet publisher audience is representative of audience members across one of a plurality of internet publishers. The example method involves determining a second duplicated audience reach between the total television audience and the internet publisher audience for a media campaign based on the first duplicated audience reach. The example method involves determining a third duplicated audience reach between a television network audience and the internet publisher audience for the media campaign based on the second duplicated audience reach.

Abstract: A disclosed example involves accessing an initial average unique web browser reach corresponding to a first duration, an initial average internet media impressions-per-user frequency corresponding to the first duration, an initial average unique web browser reach corresponding to a second duration, and an initial average internet media impressions-per-user frequency corresponding to the second duration. A probability model is used to determine an adjusted internet media audience reach corresponding to the first duration based on the initial average unique web browser reach corresponding to the first duration, the initial average internet media impressions-per-user frequency corresponding to the first duration, the initial average unique web browser reach corresponding to the second duration, and the initial average impressions-per-user frequency corresponding to the second duration.

Abstract: A method of defining data patterns for object handling includes obtaining an image of an input data area, processing the image to obtain image data, and comparing the image data with a pattern, wherein the pattern identifies spatial information of corresponding pattern fields of the pattern. The method further includes determining a confidence level of the comparison of the image data according to a success in matching the image data with the pattern fields, comparing the confidence level with a confidence threshold associated with the pattern, and selecting the pattern. A pattern output associated with the selected pattern is identified, wherein the pattern output corresponds to a canonical return format, and the pattern output is applied to the image data.

Abstract: Systems and methods for validating a circuit design are described. The circuit validation includes determining a subset of checks to apply to a portion of the overall circuit based on the pin type composition of the circuit portion.

Abstract: The invention relates to methods and apparatus of measuring real time temperature conditions within a reformer. The data is then used for process control optimisation, overheat protection, and improved creep damage and fatigue life prediction.

Abstract: Systems and methods for validating a circuit design are described. The circuit validation includes determining a subset of checks to apply to a portion of the overall circuit based on the pin type composition of the circuit portion.

Abstract: A method of defining data patterns for object handling includes obtaining an image of an input data area, processing the image to obtain image data, and comparing the image data with a pattern, wherein the pattern identifies spatial information of corresponding pattern fields of the pattern. The method further includes determining a confidence level of the comparison of the image data according to a success in matching the image data with the pattern fields, comparing the confidence level with a confidence threshold associated with the pattern, and selecting the pattern. A pattern output associated with the selected pattern is identified, wherein the pattern output corresponds to a canonical return format, and the pattern output is applied to the image data.

Abstract: Systems and methods for validating a circuit design are described. The circuit validation includes determining a subset of checks to apply to a portion of the overall circuit based on the pin type composition of the circuit portion.

Abstract: Example methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to estimate local market audiences of media content are disclosed herein. An example method disclosed herein includes weighting audience measurement data associated with a first geographic area based on population data associated with a second geographic area different from the first geographic area to form weighted data, determining a factor based on the audience measurement data and tuning data associated with the second geographic area, and processing the weighted data based on the factor to determine an audience exposure metric estimating exposure to media content in the second geographic area.

Abstract: A power supply and associated method include a power supply converter having a power output and configured to provide a supply voltage through the power output to a communications device. A simplified boost circuit is connected to the power supply converter in parallel but isolated from the power supply converter's bulk input capacitance during normal operation. The boost circuit includes at least one power storage circuit and a charging circuit connected thereto and configured to charge and maintain the power storage circuit to a predetermined voltage and switch the power storage circuit into the power supply converter during an undervoltage condition to transfer the stored power from the power storage circuit to the power supply converter and maintain the supply voltage to the communications device connected thereto for a required hold-up time.

Abstract: A carrier device supports a personal all terrain vehicle (ATV) in a truck bed of a truck so that the ATV can be supported at an incline within the truck box and the tailgate of the truck box can still be closed even on shorter length boxes to reduce wear on the tailgate during transport, and to reduce the wind resistance during transport as compared to carrier devices which support the ATV above the side walls of the truck bed. The carrier device comprises a frame mounted in the truck bed to support the ATV thereon in an inclined position extending at a forward and upward incline from a rear end to a front end of the bed. By supporting the rear end of the ATV adjacent the floor of the truck bed, loading ramps are only required to extend from the ground to the height of the floor of the truck box.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to determine board exposure levels are disclosed herein. In a disclosed example method, exposure levels associated with a plurality of media boards are obtained and a plurality of probability distributions indicative of probable exposure levels for the plurality of media boards are determined. The example method also involves selecting one of the plurality of probability distributions corresponding to an expected distribution and smoothing the selected probability distribution. Each of the plurality of media boards is then credited with a respective processed exposure level of the smoothed probability distribution.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to model set-top box data are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a first set of non-panelist behavior data and receiving a second set of panelist set-top box behavior data, the second set being associated with demographic data. The example method also includes identifying at least one behavior pattern common to the first and second sets of behavior data, and fusing data associated with the at least one behavior pattern from the first set with data associated with the at least one behavior pattern from the second set to impute at least one demographic characteristic from the second set to the first set and generate a quantity of household tuning minutes.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for crediting media exposure are disclosed. An example method includes deriving a plurality of travel paths traversed by respective ones of a plurality of respondents, determining, via a first technique, exposures of the respective ones of the plurality of respondents to a plurality of media sites based on the derived plurality of travel paths, and modifying the determined exposures to the plurality of media sites to improve a statistical accuracy of the modified determined exposures by constraining the determined exposures based on exposure information for the plurality of media sites obtained via a second technique different than the first technique.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus to compute reach and frequency values for flighted schedules are disclosed. An example method includes selecting two media components from a plurality of media components, and calculating a first flighted schedule campaign reach based on the two media components. The example method also includes repeating the selecting and calculating using the first flighted schedule campaign reach and a third media component from the plurality of media components to calculate a second flighted schedule campaign reach associated with the first, second, and third media components.