Patent ID: 11936945
Assignee: THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. An apparatus comprising:
processor circuitry including one or more of:
at least one of a central processor unit, a graphic processor unit or a digital signal processor, the at least one of the central processor unit, the graphic processor unit or the digital signal processor having control circuitry to control data movement within the processor circuitry, arithmetic and logic circuitry to perform one or more first operations corresponding to instructions, and one or more registers to store a result of the one or more first operations, the instructions in the apparatus;
a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), the FPGA including logic gate circuitry, a plurality of configurable interconnections, and storage circuitry, the logic gate circuitry and interconnections to perform one or more second operations, the storage circuitry to store a result of the one or more second operations; or
an Application Specific Integrate Circuitry (ASIC) including logic gate circuitry to perform one or more third operations;
the processor circuitry to perform at least one of the one or more first operations, the one or more second operations or the one or more third operations to instantiate:
neural network channel change detector circuitry to:
detect whether a first audio block contains a channel change, the first audio block being one of a plurality of audio blocks in an audio stream; and
determine an offset of time from a beginning of the first audio block to when the channel change occurs in response to the channel change being detected in the first audio block; and

audio block creator circuitry to create a new audio block aligned to start at the offset of time beyond the beginning of the first audio block using audio information from the audio stream.