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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2022
The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc, New York, NY (US);
Justin David Lee Fahnestock, Tampa, FL (US);
John C. Kistenmacher, Brunswick, ME (US);
Ronan Heffernan, Wesley Chapel, FL (US);
Scott Daniel Barraclough, New Port Richey, FL (US);
John Wesley Kercher, Iv, Tampa, FL (US);
The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to monitor a split screen media presentation. Example apparatus includes means for processing audio output from a media device to determine audio metering data to identify first media presented by the media device, means for generating one or more video signatures associated with video output from the media device, and means for identifying a first region-of-interest of a split screen presentation of the media device including the first media, the means for identifying to identify the first region-of-interest in response to a determination that the one or more generated video signatures do not match reference video signatures corresponding to the first media.