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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2024
The Nielsen Company (Us), Llc, New York, NY (US);
Timothy Scott Cooper, Oldsmar, FL (US);
Mark Charles Ficco, Palm Harbor, FL (US);
Alexander Topchy, New Port Richey, FL (US);
The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system for helping to facilitate fingerprint-based automatic content recognition when audio may be subject to dialog enhancement (DE). An example method includes, for each of multiple audio time segments, (a) a computing system generating alternate digital reference fingerprint data representing the audio time segment, including at least (i) non-DE reference fingerprint data representing the audio time segment without the audio time segment being dialog enhanced and (ii) DE reference fingerprint data representing the audio time segment with the audio time segment being dialog enhanced and (b) providing the generated alternate digital reference fingerprint data for storage in a reference-fingerprint library for use in fingerprint matching. Including the DE reference fingerprint data may help to facilitate more robust matching of query fingerprint data that represents dialog enhanced audio content.