METHODS, APPARATUS, AND MACHINE-READABLE STORAGE MEDIA TO MONITOR A MEDIA PRESENTATION
Patent №
US 11,601,714
Granted
2023-03-07
Filed 2021
Owner
THE NEILSEN COMPANY (US), LLC
Lab
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AI components
3
kr · planning · hardware
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
17344620
Methods, apparatus, and machine-readable storage media to monitor media presentations are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes a locator to compare a location of a mobile device with a set of reference locations at which audio monitoring is to be performed. The disclosed example apparatus further includes an audio receiver to enable a microphone of the mobile device to collect audio for media monitoring when (1) the location of the mobile device corresponds to a first one of the reference locations and (2) a media presentation monitor at the first one of the reference locations indicates a likelihood of media being presented at the first location satisfies a threshold. In some disclosed examples, the audio receiver of the example apparatus is to disable the microphone from collecting audio for media monitoring when the location of the mobile device does not correspond to any of the reference locations.
AI classification
Ownership
THE NEILSEN COMPANY (US), LLC
assignment · 604580539
Assignors
BESEHANIC, JAN
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