AUDIO WATERMARKING FOR PEOPLE MONITORING

Patent №

US 11,250,865

Granted

2022-02-15

Filed 2019

Owner

THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC

Lab

AI components

1

speech

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

16426979

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to utilize audio watermarking for people monitoring are disclosed. Example people monitoring methods disclosed herein include determining, at a user device, whether a first trigger condition for emitting an audio watermark identifying at least one of the user device or a user of the user device is satisfied. Such example methods also include, in response to determining that the first trigger condition is satisfied, providing a first audio signal including the audio watermark to an audio circuit that is to output an acoustic signal from the user device.

SpeechG10L 19/018H04H 60/45G06F 21/1063H04H 60/51H04H 2201/50

AI classification

Speech0.73
AI hardware0.49
Machine learning0.01
Knowledge representation0.00
Natural language0.00
Planning0.00
Vision0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC

assignment · 505270621

Assignors

TOPCHY, ALEXANDER, SOUNDARARAJAN, PADMANABHAN, SRINIVASAN, VENUGOPAL

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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