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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 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);
The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an audio detector to determine a first audience count based on signatures of audio data captured in the media environment, a thermal image detector to determine a heat blob count based on a frame of thermal image data captured in the media environment, and an audience image detector to identify at least one audience member based on a comparison of a frame of audience image data with a library of reference audience images, the audience image detector to perform the comparison in response to the first audience count not matching the heat blob count.