METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NON-INVASIVELY IDENTIFYING THE OPERATIONAL STATUS OF A VCR

Patent №

US 5,165,069

Granted

1992-11-17

Filed 1990

Owner

A. C. NIELSEN COMPANY

+1 more

Lab

AI components

2

ml · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

07559825

A method and apparatus are provided for identifying one of a plurality of operational modes of a monitored video cassette recorder (VCR). A sensor is positioned near the monitored VCR for detecting a radiated signal of the monitored VCR. The detected signal is appplied to a filter for filtering the detected signal and for providing a plurality of predetermined band-pass filtered signals. A neural network is used for processing the plurality of predetermined band-pass filtered signals to identify the operational mode of the VCR.

AI classification

Machine learning1.00
AI hardware0.93
Vision0.48
Knowledge representation0.01
Natural language0.01
Planning0.00
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

A. C. NIELSEN COMPANY

assignment · 53940876

NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC, THE

merger · 227930454

Assignors

VITT, JAMES J., FULMER, ALLEN L., LU, DAOZHENG

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

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