Down-mixing compensation for audio watermarking

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9472198
APP PUB NO 20150317988A1
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14800376

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Example methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to implement down-mixing compensation for audio watermarking are disclosed. Example watermark embedding methods disclosed herein include determining respective attenuation factors for a plurality of audio bands based on energy values associated with down-mixed audio samples corresponding to a first audio channel of a multi-channel audio signal and a second audio channel of the multi-channel audio signal. Disclosed example watermark embedding methods also include embedding a watermark in audio samples of the first audio channel based on the attenuation factors.

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  • THE NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC

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Srinivasan, Venugopal Tarpon Springs, US 207 5897
Topchy, Alexander New Port Richey, US 128 1586

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