US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on Feb. 4 for "Methods and apparatus to determine an audience composition based on voice recognition, thermal imaging, and facial recognition" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,527, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Methods and apparatus to determine an audience composition based on voice recognition, thermal imaging, and facial recognition" was invented by John T. LiVoti (Clearwater, Fla.) and Stanley Wellington Woodruff (Palm Harbor, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an audio detector to determine a first audience count based on signatures of audio data captured in the media environment, a thermal image detector to determine a heat blob count based on a frame of therm...