METHODS AND APPARATUS TO MONITOR A MEDIA PRESENTATION

Patent №

US 11,683,070

Granted

2023-06-20

Filed 2022

Owner

ARBITRON, INC.

+2 more

Lab

AI components

1

nlp

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

17856766

Methods and apparatus for gathering research data indicating exposure to media are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a first wireless receiver to receive a first modulated audio signal via a wireless data connection from a media device using a wireless communication protocol, the first modulated audio signal associated with the media, the first wireless receiver to output a baseband audio signal corresponding to the first modulated audio signal. The example apparatus includes a first wireless transmitter to modulate the baseband audio signal to form a second modulated audio signal, the first wireless transmitter to transmit the second modulated audio signal to wireless headphones using the wireless communication protocol. The example apparatus includes a monitoring device to receive the baseband audio signal, and to generate research data identifying the media, the media device including a second wireless transmitter to transmit the first modulated audio signal to the first wireless receiver, and the wireless headphones including a second wireless receiver to receive the second modulated audio signal from the first wireless transmitter.

Natural languageG06F 3/165H04B 5/24H04L 65/403H04R 3/005H04R 5/04H04R 29/00H04W 4/70G11B 2020/10546+4 more

AI classification

Natural language0.92
Vision0.03
Speech0.02
Planning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
AI hardware0.00
Machine learning0.00
Knowledge representation0.00

Ownership

ARBITRON, INC.

assignment · 612060116

NIELSEN AUDIO, INC

namechg · 615350689

THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC

assignment · 615350692

Assignors

KRUG, WILLIAM K., ZHANG, JAMES

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

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