METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR NONINTRUSIVE MONITORING OF WEB BROWSER USAGE

Patent №

US 8,090,822

Granted

2012-01-03

Filed 2008

Owner

THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), INC., A NEW YORK CORPORATION

+2 more

Lab

AI components

3

nlp · vision · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12181841

Methods and apparatus for nonintrusive monitoring of web browser usage are disclosed. An example method for monitoring web browsing disclosed herein comprises obtaining a video signal from a video output of a device implementing a web browser, processing a video image obtained from the video signal to identify a region of the video image displaying at least a portion of the web browser, determining textual information displayed by the web browser in the identified region of the video image, and using the textual information to record usage of the web browser.

Natural languageVisionAI hardwareG06V 30/1452H04N 7/163H04N 21/44008H04N 21/44224H04N 21/4782G06F 11/3495G06V 30/10

AI classification

Natural language0.95
Vision0.92
AI hardware0.51
Knowledge representation0.01
Speech0.00
Planning0.00
Machine learning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), INC., A NEW YORK CORPORATION

assignment · 213810071

NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC, THE

assignment · 234260885

TNC (US) HOLDING, INC., A NEW YORK CORPORATION

namechg · 234290667

Assignors

LEE, MORRIS

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

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