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

Claim 0:
1. At least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors of a machine to at least:
form a first audio block from an audio stream;
detect whether the first audio block contains a channel change, the first audio block being one of a plurality of audio blocks the accessed audio;
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
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, the new audio block to include a single channel of audio stream data.