US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on Aug. 12 for "Compensating for time scale differences between audio and other signals in fingerprinting and matching applications" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,888, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Compensating for time scale differences between audio and other signals in fingerprinting and matching applications" was invented by Alexander Topchy (Oldsmar, Fla.), Christen V. Nielsen (Dunedin, Fla.) and Jeremey M. Davis (Oldsmar, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, by a computing system, an audio signal, where the audio signal defines a segment of media content over time. The method also includes establishing by the computing system, based on the received audio signal, a normalized query frequency-domain representation of th...