Telecommunications – Audience survey or program distribution use accounting
Patent
1997-07-14
2000-08-29
Miller, John W.
Telecommunications
Audience survey or program distribution use accounting
348 4, 455 63, H04H 100, H04N 710
Patent
active
061120537
ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides an system, apparatus, and method of recording a viewer's television viewership habits. Sensors passively monitor the audio signal and video signal emanating from the television. By matching the audio signal in the source and emanating from the television and by matching television frame synchronization signal and the television source synchronization signal an unambiguous identification of the viewed channel is made.
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Dunki-Jacobs Robert John
Hopple Michael Robert
Breedlove Jill M.
General Electric Company
Miller John W.
Stoner Douglas E.
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