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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2016
Applicant:
The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc, New York, NY (US);
Inventors:
Marc Messier, Dallas, TX (US);
James Joseph Vitt, Oldsmar, FL (US);
Venugopal Srinivasan, Tarpon Springs, FL (US);
Alexander Topchy, New Port Richey, FL (US);
Assignee:
The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 29/00 (2006.01); G10L 19/018 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 29/004 (2013.01); G10L 19/018 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus to analyze microphone placement for watermarks and signatures are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a signal transformer to determine a frequency spectrum of a received noise burst; a variance determiner to compute a variance of a frequency band in the frequency spectrum; and a detection rates determiner to determine a recovery rate of at least one of a watermark or a signature based on the computed variance.