Patents by Inventor Scott Daniel Barraclough

Scott Daniel Barraclough 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: 20230119783
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to monitor a split screen media presentation. Example apparatus includes means for processing audio output from a media device to determine audio metering data to identify first media presented by the media device, means for generating one or more video signatures associated with video output from the media device, and means for identifying a first region-of-interest of a split screen presentation of the media device including the first media, the means for identifying to identify the first region-of-interest in response to a determination that the one or more generated video signatures do not match reference video signatures corresponding to the first media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Justin David Lee Fahnestock, John C. Kistenmacher, Ronan Heffernan, Scott Daniel Barraclough, John Wesley Kercher, IV
  • Patent number: 11532159
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to monitor a split screen media presentation. Example apparatus disclosed herein are to generate one or more video signatures associated with video output from a media device and determine whether the one or more video signatures correspond to first media identified based on audio output from the media device. Disclosed example apparatus are also to, in response to a determination that the one or more generated video signatures do not correspond to the first media, determine that the video corresponds to a split-screen presentation having a plurality of regions-of-interest, and identify a first one of the regions-of-interest of the split-screen presentation that includes the first media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Justin David Lee Fahnestock, John C. Kistenmacher, Ronan Heffernan, Scott Daniel Barraclough, John Wesley Kercher, IV
  • Publication number: 20210073550
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to monitor a split screen media presentation. Example apparatus disclosed herein are to generate one or more video signatures associated with video output from a media device and determine whether the one or more video signatures correspond to first media identified based on audio output from the media device. Disclosed example apparatus are also to, in response to a determination that the one or more generated video signatures do not correspond to the first media, determine that the video corresponds to a split-screen presentation having a plurality of regions-of-interest, and identify a first one of the regions-of-interest of the split-screen presentation that includes the first media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Justin David Lee Fahnestock, John C. Kistenmacher, Ronan Heffernan, Scott Daniel Barraclough, John Wesley Kercher, IV
  • Patent number: 10839225
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to monitor a split screen media presentation. Example apparatus disclosed herein include an audio processor to process audio output from a media device to determine audio metering data to identify first media presented by the media device. Disclosed example apparatus also include a video signature generator to generate one or more video signatures associated with video output from the media device. Disclosed example apparatus further include a computer vision processor to identify a first region-of-interest of a split screen presentation of the media device including the first media in response to a determination that the one or more generated video signatures do not match reference video signatures corresponding to the first media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Justin David Lee Fahnestock, John C. Kistenmacher, Ronan Heffernan, Scott Daniel Barraclough, John Wesley Kercher, IV
  • Publication number: 20200019787
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to monitor a split screen media presentation. Example apparatus disclosed herein include an audio processor to process audio output from a media device to determine audio metering data to identify first media presented by the media device. Disclosed example apparatus also include a video signature generator to generate one or more video signatures associated with video output from the media device. Disclosed example apparatus further include a computer vision processor to identify a first region-of-interest of a split screen presentation of the media device including the first media in response to a determination that the one or more generated video signatures do not match reference video signatures corresponding to the first media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Justin David Lee Fahnestock, John C. Kistenmacher, Ronan Heffernan, Scott Daniel Barraclough, John Wesley Kercher, IV