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Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2024

Filed:

Jul. 27, 2022
Applicant:

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

Inventor:

Kevin Keqiang Deng, Safety Harbor, FL (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/438 (2011.01); H04N 21/439 (2011.01); H04N 21/466 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/44204 (2013.01); H04N 21/4383 (2013.01); H04N 21/4394 (2013.01); H04N 21/4666 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed that improve short content identification in an audio stream through channel change detection and audio block realignment. Example instructions cause one or more processors to form a first audio block from an audio stream, detect whether the first audio block contains a channel change, the first audio block being one of a plurality of audio blocks the accessed audio, determine an offset of time from a beginning of the first audio block to when the channel change occurs in response to the channel change being detected in the first audio block, and create a new audio block aligned to start at the offset of time beyond the beginning of the first audio block using audio information from the audio stream, the new audio block to include a single channel of audio stream data.


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