Source detection apparatus and method for audience measurement

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8434100
APP PUB NO 20120102518A1
SERIAL NO

13092355

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Apparatus, methods and articles of manufacture for determining an operating mode of a recording/playing device are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an extractor to extract signatures associated with a first signal associated with a tuner that is to tune to a program signal, a second signal associated with a recording/playing device that is to at least one of record and play a program, and a third signal associated with a receiver coupled to the recording/playing device. The example apparatus also includes a recording detector to detect a recording signal generated by the recording/playing device during recording of the program to form a recorded program. Also included is a correlator to correlate the first, second, and third signals and a processor to identify the operating mode of the recording/playing device based on detection of the recording signal and correlation of two or more of the first, second, and third signals.

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THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US) LLC A DELAWARE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY150 NORTH MARTINGALE ROAD SCHAUMBURG IL 60173

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Lu, Daozheng Dunedin, US 45 9582
Wheeler, Henry B St. Petersburg, US 8 975

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