US 12,003,800 B2
Methods and apparatus to determine headphone adjustment for portable people meter listening to encoded audio streams
Kelly Dixon, Sykesville, MD (US); Francis C. Fasinski, Columbia, MD (US); Robin J. Gentry, Ellicott City, MD (US); Edward Murphy, North Stonington, CT (US); Jacob Martin, Baltimore, MD (US); Colin King, Silver Spring, MD (US); Emily Neuhoff, Baltimore, MD (US); Katherine T. Williams, Takoma Park, MD (US); Christopher Heider, Baltimore, MD (US); Rachel Szabo, Tampa, FL (US); and Khaldoon Abu-Hakmeh, Redondo Beach, CA (US)
Filed by The Nielsen Company (US), LLC, New York, NY (US)
Filed on Mar. 6, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/179,323.
Application 18/179,323 is a continuation of application No. 17/347,518, filed on Jun. 14, 2021, granted, now 11,601,701.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/105,179, filed on Oct. 23, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/039,410, filed on Jun. 15, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0209117 A1, Jun. 29, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04N 21/258 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01)
CPC H04N 21/25883 (2013.01) [H04N 21/44204 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
a processor;
memory having stored thereon computer readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the system to perform operations including:
determining an audience estimate for streaming media based on media data measured by a media meter, the media meter to measure the streaming media based on an identification of the streaming media in ambient audio collected by a microphone of the media meter;
calculating at least one headphone adjustment factor based on a first determined proportion of an audience that listens to streaming media via headphones and a second determined proportion of the audience that listens to streaming media without headphones;
applying the at least one headphone adjustment factor to the audience estimate for streaming media, wherein application of the at least one headphone adjustment factor generates a headphone-use-adjusted audience estimate that accounts for presentation of the streaming media that is not accounted for by the media meter collection of ambient audio due to headphone usage; and
reporting the headphone-use-adjusted audience estimate.