US Patent Issued to Charter Communications Operating on Aug. 5 for "Avatar based mitigation of sporadic pixelation in digital video" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,547, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Avatar based mitigation of sporadic pixelation in digital video" was invented by Srilal M. Weerasinghe (Parker, Colo.), Vipul Patel (Parker, Colo.), David Chen (Aurora, Colo.) and Erdogan Simsek (Englewood, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for detecting and/or mitigating video artifacts in a video. A processor in a computing device may be configured to receive the video from a video source (e.g., codec or from any other video source compressed or uncompressed) subtract pixel intensities from two consecutive frames in the v...