US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on July 28 for "Content recognition with audio fingerprints when dialog enhancement is enabled on playback devices" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,943, issued on July 28, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Content recognition with audio fingerprints when dialog enhancement is enabled on playback devices" was invented by Timothy Scott Cooper (Oldsmar, Fla.), Mark Charles Ficco (Palm Harbor, Fla.) and Alexander Topchy (New Port Richey, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "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 dat...