ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,255, issued on March 3, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).
"Methods and apparatus for identifying media content using temporal signal characteristics" was invented by Morris Lee (Palm Harbor, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for identifying media content using temporal signal characteristics are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, computer readable instructions, and at least one processor to execute the instructions to identify intervals in a media signal; generate interval sums for respective ones of the intervals, a first interval sum of the interval sums based on...