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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2023

Filed:

May. 27, 2022
Applicant:

The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc, New York, NY (US);

Inventors:

Joseph Gregory Milavsky, Dunedin, FL (US);

Hashem Alsaket, Palos Hills, IL (US);

James Bartelme, Chicago, IL (US);

Jan Besehanic, Tampa, FL (US);

Edward Stembier, Odessa, FL (US);

Assignee:

The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/442 (2011.01); G10L 15/08 (2006.01); G06F 17/18 (2006.01); H04H 60/33 (2008.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01); G06F 16/635 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/44226 (2020.08); G06F 16/635 (2019.01); G06F 17/18 (2013.01); G10L 15/083 (2013.01); G10L 15/22 (2013.01); H04H 60/33 (2013.01); H04N 21/44204 (2013.01); H04N 21/44222 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to determine audio source impact on an audience of media are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes at least one memory, instructions in the apparatus, and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to: divide audio of monitored media into successive audio segments; perform speaker identification on the audio segments; generate confidence values for speakers identified in the audio segments; generate speaker identification data for ones of the speakers having respective confidence values that satisfy a threshold; and analyze the speaker identification data to determine a speaker impact on audience ratings data.


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