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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2020
The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc, New York, NY (US);
John T. LiVoti, Clearwater, FL (US);
Stanley Wellington Woodruff, Palm Harbor, FL (US);
Rajakumar Madhanganesh, Tampa, FL (US);
Khushboo Agarwal, Oldsmar, FL (US);
THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a controller to cause a people meter to emit a prompt for input of audience identification information at a first time and determine a first audience count based on the input, an audio detector to determine a second audience count based on signatures generated from audio data captured in the media environment, and a comparator to cause the people meter to not emit the prompt for at least a first time period after the first time when the first audience count is equal to the second audience count.