By Use Of Audio Signal Patents (Class 725/18)
  • Patent number: 12056217
    Abstract: Multimedia piracy detection (e.g., using a computerized tool) is enabled. A system can comprise a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising: determining, based on a time domain and/or a frequency domain associated with original digital media content (e.g., and respective digital transportation) and using a counterfeit digital media content model, whether digital media content comprises a counterfeit of an authorized release of the original digital media content, wherein the counterfeit digital media content model has been generated based on machine learning applied to time domains and/or frequency domains of past original digital media content (e.g., and respective digital transportation) and to past digital media content (e.g., counterfeit digital media content) (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellect al Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Di Chou, James Ho, Chinglung Wen
  • Patent number: 12028566
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system, a method and a computer-readable medium for tagging live streaming data. The method includes generating a first intermediate tag for the live streaming program, generating a second intermediate tag for the live streaming program, and determining a final tag for the live streaming program according to the first intermediate tag and the second intermediate tag. The present disclosure can categorize contents in a more granular and precise way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: 17LIVE Japan Inc.
    Inventors: Hemanth Kumar Ajaru, Kshitiz Yadav, Durgesh Kumar, Hardik Taneja, Shih Bo Lin
  • Patent number: 12008039
    Abstract: The object of the present disclosure is to provide a method, apparatus and selection engine for classification matching of videos. The method according to the present disclosure includes: performing multi-dimensional identification of the content of at least one video in order to determine the abstract information of the at least one video; generating the respective classification attribute information of the at least one video based on the respective abstract information of the at least one video, wherein the classification attribute information includes the humanistic attribute information of the video; wherein the humanistic attribute information is used to indicate the value judgement corresponding to the video. The present disclosure has the following advantages: fully excavate various classification attributes of video content through multi-dimensional identification of the video, and then obtains the humanistic attributes of the video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING ALLOOK TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD
    Inventors: Jiangchun Luo, Xiyan Chen
  • Patent number: 11991499
    Abstract: A hearing aid microphone system includes M microphones providing corresponding electric input signals. Environmental sound at a given microphone includes a target sound signal propagated via an acoustic propagation channel from a direction to or a location of a target sound source to the microphone, and possible additive noise signals. The acoustic propagation channel is modeled. The hearing aid system includes: a processor connected to the microphones, and a database ? having a multitude of dictionaries ?p, p=1, . . . , P, where p is a person index, of vectors, termed ATF-vectors, whose elements ATFm, m=1, . . . , M, are frequency dependent acoustic transfer functions representing direction- or location-dependent, and frequency dependent propagation of sound. The processor is configured to, at least in a learning mode of operation, determine personalized ATF-vectors based on the multitude of dictionaries ?p, the electric input signals, and the model of the acoustic propagation channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Oticon A/S
    Inventors: Poul Hoang, Jan M. De Haan, Michael Syskind Pedersen, Jesper Jensen
  • Patent number: 11991405
    Abstract: System and methods for finding and analyzing targeted content from audio and video content sources, including means and methods for extracting captions from audio and video content sources; searching the captions for a mention of at least one target; extracting audio and video segments relating to the at least one target; delivering extracted audio and video segments to a user device; harvesting social media data relevant to the at least one target; analyzing the search results in correlation with the social media data for target content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: CROSSBAR MEDIA GROUP, INC
    Inventor: Samir Abed
  • Patent number: 11915681
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a signal acquisition unit that acquires a voice signal of an object person outputted from a mic array and a control unit that acquires at least one of noise level information indicating a noise level of noise and first information as information indicating whether or not an obstructor is speaking while obstructing speech of the object person and changes a beam width as a width of a beam corresponding to an angular range of acquired sound, centering at the beam representing a direction in which voice of the object person is inputted to the mic array, and dead zone formation intensity as a degree of suppressing at least one of the noise and voice of the obstructor inputted to the mic array based on at least one of the noise level information and the first information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Ito, Satoru Furuta
  • Patent number: 11893056
    Abstract: A media application selects, from a collection of images associated with a user account, candidate pairs of images, where each pair includes a first static image and a second static image from the user account. The media application applies a filter to select a particular pair of images from the candidate pairs of images. The media application generates, using an image interpolator, one or more intermediate images based on the particular pair of images. The media application generates a video that includes three or more frames arranged in a sequence, where a first frame of the sequence is the first static image, a last frame of the sequence is the second static image, and each of the one or more intermediate images is a corresponding intermediate frame of the sequence between the first frame and the last frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Janne Kontkanen, Jamie Aspinall, Dominik Kaeser, Navin Sarma, Brian Curless, David Salesin
  • Patent number: 11816886
    Abstract: A system may include a wearable apparatus dimensioned to be worn by a user about an axial region of the user’s body such that, when the wearable apparatus is worn by the user, the user’s field of view into a local environment is substantially free of a view of the wearable apparatus. The system may also include a machine-perception subsystem that is coupled to the wearable apparatus and that gathers information about the local environment by observing the local environment. Additionally, the system may include an experience-analysis subsystem that infers, based on the information about the local environment and information about the user, contextual information about an experience of the user in the local environment. Furthermore, the system may include a non-visual communication subsystem that outputs the contextual information about the experience of the user. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Richard Andrew Newcombe, Renzo De Nardi
  • Patent number: 11800174
    Abstract: A method of presenting an audio signal to a user of a mixed reality environment is disclosed, the method comprising the steps of detecting a first audio signal in the mixed reality environment, where the first audio signal is a real audio signal; identifying a virtual object intersected by the first audio signal in the mixed reality environment; identifying a listener coordinate associated with the user; determining, using the virtual object and the listener coordinate, a transfer function; applying the transfer function to the first audio signal to produce a second audio signal; and presenting, to the user, the second audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Anastasia Andreyevna Tajik, Jean-Marc Jot
  • Patent number: 11797510
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for key-value store and file system integration to optimize key value store operations. A key-value store is integrated within a file system of a node. A log structured merge tree of the key-value store may be populated with a key corresponding to a content hash of a value data item stored separate from the key. A random distribution search may be performed upon a sorted log of the log structured merge tree to identify the key for accessing the value data item. A starting location for the random distribution search is derived from key information, a log size of the sorted log, and/or a keyspace size of a keyspace associated with the key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Sanjay Subramanian Seshadri, Arindam Banerjee, Manan Dahyabhai Patel, Raymond Jordan Go, Anil Paul Thoppil, Ananthan Subramanian, Santhosh Selvaraj, Nikul Y. Patel, Vikhyath Rao, Meera Odugoudar, Kevin Daniel Varghese
  • Patent number: 11785276
    Abstract: A method of replacing low-quality audio content by better-quality audio content in media content comprising the low-quality audio content synchronized with video content. Tag data and/or fingerprint data associated with the low-quality audio content are used to perform a search to find a matching portion of better-quality audio content. The low-quality audio content can be replaced with the matched portion of the better-quality audio content by compiling the matched audio portion with the video content of the media content. Included is any of: compensating for an amount of timing misalignment between the low-quality audio content and the matched portion of audio content; obtaining fingerprint data for the audio content of the media content by using hash values of spectrogram frequency peaks; obtaining one or more feature vectors from the audio content of the media content to reduce a size of a search of stored instances of audio content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Tagmix Limited
    Inventor: Andy Dean
  • Patent number: 11743557
    Abstract: In accordance with some implementations of the disclosed subject matter, mechanisms for presenting recommended media content items are provided. In some implementations, a method for providing media guidance is provided, the method comprising: receiving a request for supplemental content relating to a program being presented by a media device; causing a content interface to be presented on a mobile device; identifying the program that is being presented on a media device; determining keywords associated with the program, wherein each of the keywords is associated with a particular portion of the program; obtaining and storing supplemental content items corresponding to the program based on the keywords; causing the content interface to present a first supplemental content item; receiving state information associated with the mobile device that indicates a subsequent visit to the content interface; and causing the content interface to present a second supplemental content item based on the state information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ingrid Mcaulay Trollope, Ant Oztaskent, Yaroslav Volovich
  • Patent number: 11694710
    Abstract: Audio processing systems and methods include an audio sensor array configured to receive a multichannel audio input and generate a corresponding multichannel audio signal and target-speech detection logic and an automatic speech recognition engine or VoIP application. An audio processing device includes a target speech enhancement engine configured to analyze a multichannel audio input signal and generate a plurality of enhanced target streams, a multi-stream target-speech detection generator comprising a plurality of target-speech detector engines each configured to determine a probability of detecting a specific target-speech of interest in the stream, wherein the multi-stream target-speech detection generator is configured to determine a plurality of weights associated with the enhanced target streams, and a fusion subsystem configured to apply the plurality of weights to the enhanced target streams to generate an enhancement output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Francesco Nesta, Saeed Mosayyebpour Kaskari
  • Patent number: 11671821
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to update audio sensor configuration are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Inventors: Christen V. Nielsen, James J. Vitt, Timothy Scott Cooper, Douglas Brent Turnbow
  • Patent number: 11670309
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture for research data gathering are disclosed. An example apparatus disclosed herein is to detect whether the apparatus is powered by an internal power source or an external power source. The example apparatus is also to, in response to detecting the apparatus is powered by the internal power source, perform first processing on a received audio signal to determine audio data to store in storage of the apparatus. The example apparatus is further to, in response to detecting the apparatus is powered by the external power source, perform second processing on the stored audio data to recover the code, the second processing different from the first processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC
    Inventors: Alan R. Neuhauser, Jack C. Crystal
  • Patent number: 11589124
    Abstract: Methods and Systems are disclosed for displaying objects between disparate devices connected to an electronic network. One method comprises detecting, by a multimedia device connected to an electronic network, an object in a multimedia stream; determining an identifier associated with the detected object; detecting a mobile device connected to the electronic network, the mobile device being a device other than the multimedia device; and generating a display of the detected object at the detected mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Worldpay Limited
    Inventors: Kevin Gordon, Charlotte Spender
  • Patent number: 11546667
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for associating and synchronizing extrinsic data with video content at particular points of time in the video content. In one embodiment, an application identifies a video content feature currently being presented via a display device. A current time in the video content feature are determined. Performers potentially depicted in the video content feature at the current time are determined. The application then generates a user interface configured to receive a user selection of a particular performer from the performers, where the user selection indicates that the particular performer is depicted in the video content feature at the current time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: IMDb.com, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrej Gregov, Francis J. Kane, Douglas M. Treder
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11509956
    Abstract: A system for quantifying viewer engagement with a video playing on a display includes at least one camera to acquire image data of a viewing area in front of the display. A microphone acquires audio data emitted by a speaker coupled to the display. The system also includes a memory to store processor-executable instructions and a processor. Upon execution of the processor-executable instructions, the processor receives the image data and the audio data and determines an identity of the video displayed on the display based on the audio data. The processor also estimates a first number of people present in the viewing area and a second number of people engaged with the video. The processor further quantifies the viewer engagement of the video based on the first number of people and the second number of people.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: TVISION INSIGHTS, INC.
    Inventors: Inderbir Sidhu, Yanfeng Liu, Yun Fu
  • Patent number: 11503365
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus and a method of controlling the same are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a communication interface and a processor configured to receive multimedia data from an external apparatus, obtain a first finger print of first frames among a plurality of frames included in the multimedia data, the first frames being included in a first time interval, and transmit the first finger print to the server; identify whether a content in the multimedia data has been changed and a time point indicating a time of identifying a change in the content; based on identifying that the content has been changed, obtain a second finger print of a frame corresponding to the time point, and transmit the second finger print to the server; receive content information corresponding to the second finger print, and determine whether to change the first time interval based on the content information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hyunsoo Choi, Younguk Kim, Hyunhan Kim, Hyosang Kim, Sungjin Kim, Jaewoo Lee, Jongmyoung Joh
  • Patent number: 11477708
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for a user equipment (UE) to report packet switched voice call capabilities to a base station. The UE may explicitly report voice call capabilities via one or more system-level parameters that are transmitted to the base station. The base station may operate in a first radio access network (RAN), such as a 5G or new radio (NR) RAN. In cases where the UE indicates a capability for packet switched voice calls via the first RAN, one or more voice calls may be established with the UE via the first RAN. In cases where the UE indicates that it is not capable of packet switched voice calls via the first RAN, the UE may fall back to a different RAN (e.g., a 4G or LTE RAN, a 3G RAN, or a 2G RAN) for voice calls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Xipeng Zhu, Masato Kitazoe, Tom Chin, Gavin Bernard Horn, Haris Zisimopoulos, Shyamal Ramachandran, Min Wang, Aziz Gholmieh, Ajith Payyappilly, Luis Fernando Brisson Lopes
  • Patent number: 11477510
    Abstract: A method of presenting an audio signal to a user of a mixed reality environment is disclosed, the method comprising the steps of detecting a first audio signal in the mixed reality environment, where the first audio signal is a real audio signal; identifying a virtual object intersected by the first audio signal in the mixed reality environment; identifying a listener coordinate associated with the user; determining, using the virtual object and the listener coordinate, a transfer function; applying the transfer function to the first audio signal to produce a second audio signal; and presenting, to the user, the second audio signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Anastasia Andreyevna Tajik, Jean-Marc Jot
  • Patent number: 11450109
    Abstract: Systems and methods for replacing original media bookmarks of at least a portion of a digital media file with replacement bookmarks is described. A media fingerprint engine detects the location of the original fingerprints associated with the portion of the digital media file and a region analysis algorithm characterizes regions of media file spanning the location of the original bookmarks by data class types. The replacement bookmarks are associated with the data class types and are overwritten or otherwise are substituted for the original bookmarks. The replacement bookmarks then are subjected to a fingerprint matching algorithm that incorporates media timeline and media related metadata.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: SYNERGY SPORTS TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Nils B. Lahr, Garrick C. Barr
  • Patent number: 11376740
    Abstract: A robot detects a voice using a microphone array, and identifies a sound source direction. The robot directs a head portion in the sound source direction. When an object including characteristics as a voice emitting body is detected in a filming region of a sound source direction identified using the microphone array, the voice emitting body is identified as a voice emission source. When a voice emitting body is identified as a voice emission source, the robot directs a body toward a sound source (emission source). When a special environmental sound is detected, a predetermined motion is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: GROOVE X, INC.
    Inventor: Kaname Hayashi
  • Patent number: 11350182
    Abstract: In accordance with some implementations of the disclosed subject matter, mechanisms for presenting recommended media content items are provided. In some implementations, a method for providing media guidance is provided, the method comprising: receiving a request for supplemental content relating to a program being presented by a media device; causing a content interface to be presented on a mobile device; identifying the program that is being presented on a media device; determining keywords associated with the program, wherein each of the keywords is associated with a particular portion of the program; obtaining and storing supplemental content items corresponding to the program based on the keywords; causing the content interface to present a first supplemental content item; receiving state information associated with the mobile device that indicates a subsequent visit to the content interface; and causing the content interface to present a second supplemental content item based on the state information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ingrid McAulay Trollope, Ant Oztaskent, Yaroslav Volovich
  • Patent number: 11290776
    Abstract: A computing system compares various reference fingerprints each representing a reference media stream broadcast on a different respective known channel, and the computing system determines that a plurality of the reference fingerprints match each other, thus defining a multi-match group of the matching reference fingerprints. In response, the computing system identifies a fingerprint feature that could define a distinction between the reference fingerprints, and the computing system resolves the multi-match based on the identified feature, thereby determining the channel carrying the media stream being rendered by the media presentation device. And the server then takes channel-specific action based on the determined channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Roku, Inc.
    Inventors: Jaehyung Lee, Dewey Ho Lee, Markus Cremer
  • Patent number: 11197060
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to count people in an audience are disclosed. An apparatus includes a location determiner to determine a location of a portable device was outside of a media exposure environment, and a proximity determiner to determine a person was in proximity to the portable device. The apparatus also includes a presence detector to: generate first presence information based on the location of the portable device and the proximity of the person to the portable device, the first presence information to indicate that the person was absent from the media exposure environment; compare the first presence information to second presence information collected by a people meter; and, when the second presence information indicates the person was present in the media exposure environment, modify the second presence information based on the first presence information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Inventors: Padmanabhan Soundararajan, Venugopal Srinivasan, Alexander Topchy
  • Patent number: 11195171
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a server, a data transmission of video content destined for a data storage device. The method includes generating, by the server, a content signature by application of a wavelet transform to a plurality of frames of a time sequence of frames of the video content. The method includes selecting, by the server based on content metadata for the video content, particular prohibited content signatures from a plurality of prohibited content signatures. Each prohibited content signature of the particular prohibited content signatures corresponds to a wavelet transform of a plurality of frames of prohibited content. The method also includes, in response to a first determination that a first prohibited content signature of the particular prohibited content signatures matches the content signature, preventing transmission of the video content from the server to the data storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Zhi Li, Canhui Ou, Raghvendra Savoor, Dipak Ghosal
  • Patent number: 11184670
    Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus according to an embodiment includes a display, a memory configured to store UI pattern information, a communication interface comprising communication circuitry, and a processor configured to control the display apparatus to obtain identification information indicating a type of changed multimedia content from the memory based on UI pattern information obtained from the changed multimedia content based on an event that changes a multimedia content output through the display occurring, control the communication interface to: transmit the identification information and fingerprint obtained from the changed multimedia content to a server, and receive content information corresponding to the fingerprint obtained based on the identification information from the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiwoong Choi, Younguk Kim, Yoonhee Choi, Minsoo Kim, Hyosang Kim, Hyunsoo Choi
  • Patent number: 11173611
    Abstract: This specification relates to robots and audio processing in robots. In general, one innovative aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in a robot that includes: a body and one or more physically moveable components; a plurality of accessory input subsystems and one or more other sensor subsystems; one or more processors; and one or more storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more processors, to cause the robot to perform operations. The operations can include: receiving one or more sensor inputs from the one or more other sensor subsystems; determining a predicted direction of a detected sound emitter based on the one or more sensor inputs of the one or more other sensor subsystems; calculating a spatial filter based on the predicted direction; obtaining, by the plurality of accessory input subsystems, respective audio inputs; and processing the respective audio inputs according to the calculated spatial filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Digital Dream Labs, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Thomas Casner, Lee Crippen, Hanns W. Tappeiner, Kevin Yoon
  • Patent number: 11094349
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for synchronizing event media content comprising remote audio and video content recorded by a spectator or fan user at an event performance with the remote audio content recorded from the speakers at an event performance, and with source audio content recorded directly from the performance as recorded by a promotor, club or the like. The source audio content has a better quality than the remote audio content recorded by the spectator. The better quality audio source content replaces the lower quality audio content recorded by the spectator. The resulting source audio/remote video media content provides a user's personalized memento of the event with clean studio-clear sound quality audio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Tagmix Limited
    Inventor: Andy Dean
  • Patent number: 11095380
    Abstract: First fingerprint data is accumulated in a first fingerprint buffer of a channel identification server in parallel with accumulation of second fingerprint data in a second fingerprint buffer of the channel identification server. The first and second fingerprint data include multiple fingerprints representing broadcast content broadcast by corresponding broadcast sources during contiguous time periods, and accumulating the fingerprints includes appending newly received first fingerprints to previously received first fingerprints to generate continuous fingerprints. The channel identification server also receives an unmatched fingerprint representing broadcast content received from an unknown broadcast source by the end-user device. The unmatched fingerprint into probes, which are scrubbed against both first and second continuous fingerprints in an attempt to determine a match between the unmatched fingerprint and either the first or second continuous fingerprint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: iHeartMedia Management Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Dyon Anniballi, Philippe Generali
  • Patent number: 11044520
    Abstract: There is provided mechanisms for determining a time offset for a video segment of a video stream using metadata. The metadata comprises time information of at least one of a start time and an end time of the video segment. A method is performed by a video network node. The method comprises extracting a first video part and a second video part from the video stream. Each of the first video part and the second video part comprises a common video segment. The method comprises identifying a sequence of video frames in the first video part that represents the common video segment. The method comprises determining the time offset based on a time difference between an end-point frame of the Identify sequence of video identified sequence of video frames and the time information in the metadata.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Sarel Cohen, Nir Drang
  • Patent number: 10972786
    Abstract: A computing system compares various reference fingerprints each representing a reference media stream broadcast on a different respective known channel, and the computing system determines that a plurality of the reference fingerprints match each other, thus defining a multi-match group of the matching reference fingerprints. In response, the computing system identifies a fingerprint feature that could define a distinction between the reference fingerprints, and the computing system resolves the multi-match based on the identified feature, thereby determining the channel carrying the media stream being rendered by the media presentation device. And the server then takes channel-specific action based on the determined channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Gracenote, Inc.
    Inventors: Jaehyung Lee, Dewey Ho Lee, Markus Cremer
  • Patent number: 10924791
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to estimate demographics of a household are disclosed. An example method to determine demographics for non-panelist households includes calculating a first demographic constraint average and a second demographic constraint average based on a first demographic distribution of a first tuning event of a household and a second demographic distribution of a second tuning event of the household. The household is a non-panelist household. The example method also includes, based on the first demographic constraint average, determining a first likelihood of the household being associated with a first demographic constraint. The example method also includes, based on the second demographic constraint average, determining a second likelihood of the household being associated with a second demographic constraint. The example method also includes estimating a household characteristic of the household based on the first likelihood and the second likelihood.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Sullivan, Peter Lipa, Michael Sheppard, Alejandro Terrazas
  • Patent number: 10909174
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to, among other things, a system that may receive a stream of data content that corresponds with a content classification. A machine learning (ML) model may be selected based at least in part on the metadata and/or content classification. The data content may be inputted to the ML model and an output from the ML model may indicate that data content is associated with the content classification, a start location, and an end location of the stream of data content. The stream of data content may be truncated or cut by removing portions of the stream of data content that fall before the start location and after the end location. The remaining portion of the stream may be stored as a file and provided to the user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Martin, Michael Bartholomew, Steve Huynh
  • Patent number: 10893315
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a content presentation system, a content presentation method, and a program which are capable of optimizing and streamlining allocation of a plurality of transport media. A content delivery apparatus delivers content to a client that reproduces the content using a plurality of networks with different transport characteristics. A content providing apparatus provides the content delivery apparatus with a policy serving as a determination criterion when delivery of each of streams is distributed by the plurality of networks when the content constituted by a plurality of streams with different characteristics. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a content presentation system that provides content using MPEG DASH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuaki Yamagishi, Kazuhiko Takabayashi
  • Patent number: 10810254
    Abstract: A method includes computing match scores for each portion of multiple portions of a first audio fingerprint. The match scores are based on a comparison of the portion with each of multiple portions of a second audio fingerprint. The method includes generating a list of runs based on the highest score for each portion of the multiple portions of the first audio fingerprint. The method includes determining, based on the list of runs, an unordered match between a set of consecutive portions of the first audio fingerprint and a set of non-consecutive portions of the second audio fingerprint. The method includes, in response to determining that a length of the unordered match satisfies a length criterion, outputting an indicator that the first audio fingerprint matches the second audio fingerprint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: iHeartMedia Management Services, Inc.
    Inventor: Dyon Anniballi
  • Patent number: 10766144
    Abstract: This specification relates to robots and audio processing in robots. One aspect of the subject matter includes: a body and one or more physically moveable components; a plurality of microphones; one or more processors; and one or more storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more processors, to cause the robot to perform operations. The operations can include: obtaining map data of an environment of the robot; selecting a test location from the map data; navigating to the selected test location; receiving a sound wave propagating through the environment of the robot; computing one or more acoustic transfer functions for the test signal, wherein each acoustic transfer function represents how the test signal was transformed by the environment of the robot during its propogation through the environment of the robot; and storing each of the transfer functions in association with the test location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: DIGITAL DREAM LABS, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Thomas Casner, Lee Crippen, Hanns W. Tappeiner, Anthony Armenta, Kevin Yoon
  • Patent number: 10764639
    Abstract: A computer system including a processor, a system memory, a non-transitory storage medium having modules such as a broadcast obtain module, an other media obtain module, a content aggregate module, an aggregated content send module, a context determine module, a formulate overlay module, and an overlay send module. The system may have a Wi-Fi router. The context determine module may determine a function or access services. The context determine module may access a calendar item for a user. The formulate overlay module may overlay data based on a calendar item. The formulate overlay module may overlay data relevant to aggregated content. A social media access module accessing a number of relevant services and a notice module providing notice to a user may be included. The notice module may identify the notice by using a date, a time, and a location of the computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Inventor: Sun Chang
  • Patent number: 10715860
    Abstract: In combination with video content transmitted by a video streaming service, additional content may also be displayed to viewers. The video streaming service may provide a framework that allows the additional content to be provided by third parties. By allowing third parties to develop and provide additional content, the range of interactions and experiences made available through such content may, in some cases, be significantly expanded. The additional content may be displayed inside a respective assigned area, such as an inline frame (Iframe), embedded within a web page or other interface in which the video content is displayed. Additionally, techniques may be provided for controlling focus between a video player that displays the video content and the embedded area that displays the additional content, for example to help ensure that user input is provided to its intended target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Twitch Interactive, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Bartlett, Joshua Madewell, Ke Zhang, Karl Patrick, Matthew Rudder, Ryan Lubinski, Greg Humphreys, Yoh Suzuki, Matthew Herbert Earl Walsh, David Cusatis, Patrick Sanchez
  • Patent number: 10530507
    Abstract: An end user can sample a radio or television broadcast, generate a user representation of the broadcast sample, and send the user representation to a comparison system, which also receives known representations of content broadcast by multiple different stations. The known representations are stored in a continuous fashion, and represent actually broadcast content. The comparison system identifies the source of the broadcast sample by comparing the user representation to the known representations associated with each of the different stations using a bit count method, such as the Hamming distance. By comparing two representations of content that was actually broadcast, a broadcast source can be identified without requiring the use of watermarks, timestamps, or a database of discreet content items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: iHeartMedia Management Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Dyon Anniballi, Philippe Generali
  • Patent number: 10524000
    Abstract: A computing system compares various reference fingerprints each representing a reference media stream broadcast on a different respective known channel, and the computing system determines that a plurality of the reference fingerprints match each other, thus defining a multi-match group of the matching reference fingerprints. In response, the computing system identifies a fingerprint feature that could define a distinction between the reference fingerprints, and the computing system resolves the multi-match based on the identified feature, thereby determining the channel carrying the media stream being rendered by the media presentation device. And the server then takes channel-specific action based on the determined channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Gracenote, Inc.
    Inventors: Jaehyung Lee, Dewey Ho Lee, Markus Cremer
  • Patent number: 10516762
    Abstract: A system is provided in which portable electronic devices may be provided to people for accessing services in mass quantities. Each portable electronic device, which may be a tablet, may be configured in advance with one or more service programs and an authentication process. The tablet may also include cellular data access and/or paired peripheral devices. Such pre-configuration may provide subsequent ease of use and/or guarantee compatibility with a provider's server. A device control module on the tablet may communicate with a device manager on a server to monitor progress of the service program. If data values associated with the service program, such as measurements and/or transferred content, fail to meet a threshold within a period of time, the device control module may implement an action on the device to encourage the user, such as triggering repetitive alerts, disabling cellular access, disabling system applications, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Zillion Group, Inc.
    Inventors: William Van Wyck, Theresa Biasi, Kelly Jura, Michelle Stevens, Anuja Ketan
  • Patent number: 10440439
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, registering a first mobile device of a subscriber as a first candidate device to receive a notification of a future streaming of a media content item; registering a second mobile device of the subscriber as a second candidate device to receive the notification of the future streaming of the media content item; determining first and second usage status of the first and second mobile devices; selecting, based upon the first usage status and the second usage status, one of the first and second mobile devices; sending to the selected mobile device a notification that the future streaming of the media content item will begin; receiving from the selected mobile device a streaming instruction to initiate streaming of the media content item; and streaming to the selected mobile device the media content item. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Sudheer Bandela, Hai Nguyen, Binny Asarikuniyil, Heather Truong
  • Patent number: 10418039
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture for research data gathering are disclosed. Example apparatus disclosed herein to recover a code from media include memory including computer readable instructions, and a processor to execute the instructions to at least process the media based on a sample corresponding to a first window of time to determine whether the code is recoverable from the media using the first window of time, and in response to determining that the code is not recoverable from the media using the first window of time, process the media again based on a sample corresponding to a second window of time larger than the first window of time to recover the code from the media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Alan R. Neuhauser, Jack C. Crystal
  • Patent number: 10298982
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to estimate demographics of a household are disclosed. An example method to determine demographics for non-panelist households includes calculating a first demographic constraint average and a second demographic constraint average based on a first demographic distribution of a first tuning event of a household and a second demographic distribution of a second tuning event of the household. The household is a non-panelist household. The example method also includes, based on the first demographic constraint average, determining a first likelihood of the household being associated with a first demographic constraint. The example method also includes, based on the second demographic constraint average, determining a second likelihood of the household being associated with a second demographic constraint. The example method also includes estimating a household characteristic of the household based on the first likelihood and the second likelihood.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Sullivan, Peter Lipa, Michael Sheppard, Alejandro Terrazas
  • Patent number: 10241741
    Abstract: A method including generating respective audio signals from microphones of an apparatus; determining which camera(s) of a plurality of cameras of the apparatus has been selected for use; and based upon the determined camera(s) selected for use, selecting an audio processing mode for at least one of the respective audio signals to be processed, where the audio processing mode at least partially automatically adjusts the at least one respective audio signals based upon the determined camera(s) selected for use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventors: Lasse Juhani Laaksonen, Miikka Tapani Vilermo, Mikko Tapio Tammi
  • Patent number: 10204160
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for disambiguating user input based on a physical location of items in a vicinity of a user. The system determines that a query received from a user contains an ambiguity. In response, the system identifies several items in the physical vicinity of the user. Then, the system analyzes the identified plurality of items to determine whether the plurality of items forms a first ensemble of items or a second ensemble of items. If the plurality of items forms a first ensemble of items, the system performs a search using the search query and a first keyword related to the first ensemble of items. If the plurality of items forms a second ensemble of items, the system performs a search using the search query and a second keyword related to the second ensemble of items. The system then outputs results of the performed search.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: ROVI GUIDES, INC.
    Inventors: Alexis Yelton, Xin Xu, Shreyas Mahimkar
  • Patent number: 10129610
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to monitor media are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a network interface to obtain media monitoring information from a content publisher. The apparatus further includes a media identifier to determine a first media identifier based on the obtained media monitoring information corresponding to media presented at a media device, map the first media identifier to a second media identifier in a look-up table, the second media identifier based on an audience measurement entity (AME) media analyzer obtaining the media before the media device accessed the media, and credit the presentation of the media to the media device based on the mapping. The apparatus further includes a report generator to generate a media crediting report based on the crediting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: Steven J. Splaine, Arun Ramaswamy, Kevin K. Gaynor, Chris G. Nicotra, Alan N. Bosworth