TELEVISION PROXIMITY SENSOR

Patent №

US 7,100,181

Granted

2006-08-29

Filed 2002

Owner

NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC, THE, A DELAWARE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY

+1 more

Lab

AI components

1

speech

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10125577

Systems and methods for determining whether a television is on and in as near proximity are provided. An example system includes a sensor, an analog-to-digital converter, and a digital signal processor. The digital signal processor processes a set of digital audio samples detected by the sensor to determine if the sensor is in near proximity to a television in an on state.

SpeechH04H 60/52H04H 60/32H04H 60/56

AI classification

Speech0.86
Evolutionary computation0.04
AI hardware0.01
Machine learning0.00
Natural language0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Planning0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC, THE, A DELAWARE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY

merger · 230790949

NIELSEN MEDIA RESEARCH, INC., A DELAWARE CORPORATION

assignment · 230850037

Assignors

SRINIVASAN, VENUGOPAL, PEIFFER, JOHN C., NELSON, DAN

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

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