Patent ID: 11924509
Assignee: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 16:
17. An audience measurement system comprising:
a dedicated audience measurement camera provided to a panelist household by an audience measurement entity, the dedicated audience measurement camera at a first position relative to a television for capturing images of a room of the panelist household, the television in the room of the panelist household; and
a dedicated audience measurement meter provided to a panelist household by the audience measurement entity, the dedicated audience measurement meter separate from the dedicated audience measurement camera and at a second position relative to the television for generating audio signatures representative of portions of media presented by the television, the dedicated audience measurement meter including:
a meter housing;
machine readable instructions; and
one or more processors configured to execute the machine readable instructions to:
determine that the television is presenting media,
based on determining that the television is presenting media, cause the dedicated audience measurement camera to periodically image the room of the panelist household,
generate an audio signature of the media presented by the television in the room of the panelist household, the audio signature based on a frequency spectrum representation of an audio signal of the media,
obtain media identification data based on the audio signature, the media identification data corresponding to the media,
analyze an image of the room of the panelist household to determine whether an audience member is facing toward the television in the room of the panelist household, the image captured by the dedicated audience measurement camera while the media corresponding to the media identification data is presented on the television, the image provided to the dedicated audience measurement meter by the dedicated audience measurement camera,
determine an engagement level of the audience member based on whether the audience member is facing toward the television;
determine audience identification information based on a facial-recognition match between the audience member and a panelist associated with the panelist household; and
cause exposure data including the media identification data, the engagement level, and the audience identification information to be provided to a data collection facility of the audience measurement entity via a network.