ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,866, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).
"Video management" was invented by Srinath V. Ramaswamy (East Windsor, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a method of processing a sequence of image frames to reduce its length. One implementation may involve extracting coefficients (e.g., Discrete Cosine Transform coefficients) from components of individual frames, and comparing the resulting coefficients for sequential frames to identify frames having the least change from a prior frame. Also, scene change values for each frame may be calculated and placed in a sorted...