Audio matching with semantic audio recognition and report generation

• US 10,360,883 B2
• Filed: 08/29/2017
• Issued: 07/23/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: The Nielsen Company LLC (MOOD Media Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nielsen Company (US) LLC (RR Donnelley & Sons Company)
• Inventors: Neuhauser, Alan, Stavropoulos, John
• Primary Examiner(s): Abebe, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US15/689,225
• Publication Number:
  US 20170358283A1
• Time in Patent Office: 693 Days
• Field of Search: 704203
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/0008 Associated control or indicating means
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/036 of musical genre, i.e. analysing the style of musical pieces, usually for selection, filtering or classification
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/041 based on mfcc [mel -frequency spectral coefficients]
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/056 for extraction or identification of individual instrumental parts, e.g. melody, chords, bass; Identification or separation of instrumental parts by their characteristic voices or timbres
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/066 for pitch analysis as part of wider processing for musical purposes, e.g. transcription, musical performance evaluation; Pitch recognition, e.g. in polyphonic sounds; Estimation or use of missing fundamental
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/071 for rhythm pattern analysis or rhythm style recognition rhythm pattern per se G10H2210/341
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/076 for extraction of timing, tempo; Beat detection tempo display G10H2220/081; tempo control G10H2210/375
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/081 for automatic key or tonality recognition, e.g. using musical rules or a knowledge base
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2250/235 Fourier transform; Discrete Fourier Transform [DFT]; Fast Fourier Transform [FFT]
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2250/251 Wavelet transform, i.e. transform with both frequency and temporal resolution, e.g. for compression of percussion sounds; Discrete Wavelet Transform [DWT]
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/00 Speech recognition G10L17/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 25/51 for comparison or discrimination
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 25/81 for discriminating voice from music
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 25/84 for discriminating voice from noise

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