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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2019
The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc, New York, NY (US);
Matja{hacek over (z)} Finc, Izola, SI;
THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed for media monitoring and audience measurement. An example system includes a symbol alphabet meter to generate a query symbol alphabet based on captured data of an optical pulse stream, the optical pulse stream detected from a media remote control. The example system also includes a symbol alphabet matcher to apply a probability function to the query symbol alphabet and a reference symbol alphabet to determine a symbol alphabet matching probability, and determine a symbol alphabet match based on the symbol alphabet matching probability. In addition, the example system includes a key code detector to determine a key code based on the symbol alphabet match.