Apparatus, systems, and methods for user presence detection for audience monitoring
AssigneeThe Nielsen Company (US), LLC
InventorsStanley Wellington Woodruff, John T. Livoti
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Abstract
Apparatus, systems, and method for user presence detection for audience monitoring are disclosed. Example apparatus disclosed herein are to detect movement of a user relative to an area based on one or more signals output by one or more motion detection sensors, the area associated with a media presentation device. Disclosed example apparatus are also to generate a request for verification of user presence in the viewing area in response to detection of the user movement. Disclosed example apparatus are further to correlate a user input responsive to the request with media presented via the media presentation device.
Claims20
An audience measurement system comprising:
- a processor and
- a memory having stored thereon machine readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the audience measurement system to perform operations comprising:
- providing, via a network and in response to a detected movement of a user in a media presentation area, an instruction to a smart home device to output a request for verification of user presence in the media presentation area;
- obtaining, via the network and from the smart home device, an audio speech input received from the user by the smart home device;
- providing, via the network, an instruction to the smart home device to notify the user that the audio speech input responsive to the request for verification of user presence is received;
- generating user presence data that correlates the audio speech input with media presented by a media presentation device;
- and
- storing the user presence data in a database.
A non-transitory machine readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed, cause a processor to perform operations comprising:
- providing, via a network and in response to a detected movement of a user in a media presentation area, an instruction to a smart home device to output a request for verification of user presence in the media presentation area;
- obtaining, via the network and from the smart home device, an audio speech input received from the user by the smart home device;
- providing, via the network, an instruction to the smart home device to notify the user that the audio speech input responsive to the request for verification of user presence is received;
- generating user presence data that correlates the audio speech input with media presented by a media presentation device;
- and
- storing the user presence data in a database.
A method comprising:
- providing, via a network and in response to a detected movement of a user in a media presentation area, an instruction to a smart home device to output a request for verification of user presence in the media presentation area;
- obtaining, via the network and from the smart home device, an audio speech input received from the user by the smart home device;
- providing, via the network, an instruction to the smart home device to notify the user that the audio speech input responsive to the request for verification of user presence is received;
- generating user presence data that correlates the audio speech input with media presented by a media presentation device;
- and
- storing the user presence data in a database.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.