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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2018
The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc, New York, NY (US);
David Gish, Riverdale, NJ (US);
Sadhana Gupta, Columbia, MD (US);
Vladimir Kuznetsov, Ellicott City, MD (US);
Wendell D. Lynch, East Lansing, MI (US);
Alan R. Neuhauser, Silver Spring, MD (US);
The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to implement power efficient detection of watermarks in media signals are disclosed. Example metering apparatus disclosed herein include detector means for detecting watermarks in a media signal. Disclosed example metering apparatus also include controller means for operating the detector means to (1) detect a first watermark in the media signal, and (2) cycle between sleep intervals and active intervals to detect a second watermark at a second location in the media signal relative to a first location of the first watermark in the media signal after the first watermark has been verified.