Methods and apparatus for embedding codes in compressed audio data streams

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9286903
APP PUB NO 20150170661A1
SERIAL NO

14631395

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Example methods disclosed herein to embed a watermark in a compressed audio stream include accessing a first scale factor and a first set of mantissas for a first set of transform coefficients included in the compressed audio stream, the first set of transform coefficients corresponding to a first band of a compression standard. Such disclosed example methods also include quantizing a second set of transform coefficients based on a second scale factor corresponding to the first scale factor reduced by a unit of resolution to determine a second set of mantissas, the second set of transform coefficients corresponding to the first band of the compression standard and including the watermark. Such disclosed example methods further include replacing the first scale factor with the second scale factor and the first set of mantissas with the second set of mantissas to embed the watermark in the compressed audio stream.

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  • THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC

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Srinivasan, Venugopal Palm Harbor, US 200 5537

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