US Patent Issued to The Nielsen Company (US) on May 13 for "Display device on/off detection methods and apparatus" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,784, issued on May 13, was assigned to The Nielsen Co. (US) LLC (New York).

"Display device on/off detection methods and apparatus" was invented by Christen V. Nielsen (Palm Harbor, Fla.) and Dan Nelson (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Display device ON/OFF detection methods and apparatus are disclosed. Example display activity detectors disclosed herein are to extract regions from respective ones of captured video frames, the regions corresponding to a depiction of a display of a monitored media device Disclosed example display activity detectors are also to compute a distance metric that is to represent an amount a first...