How does Umami figure out what I'm watching?
Last Updated: Nov 08, 2011 09:51AM EST
Audio from your TV is captured by your iPad's microphone and encoded into tiny signatures (called fingerprints) that are then compared with our library of TV programming. The audio never leaves your device - fingerprints are calculated on the iPad itself, and cannot be translated back into real sounds.
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