ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,629, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to GRACENOTE INC. (New York).
"Methods and apparatus to identify media" was invented by Robert Coover (Orinda, Calif.), Matthew James Wilkinson (Emeryville, Calif.), Jeffrey Scott (Berkeley, Calif.) and Yongju Hong (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify media. An example method includes: in response to a query, generating an adjusted sample media fingerprint by applying an adjustment to a sample media fingerprint; comparing the adjusted sample media fingerprint to a reference media fingerprint; and in res...