US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Dec. 23 for "Coding unit prediction using template matching costs" (Russian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,884, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Coding unit prediction using template matching costs" was invented by Alexey Konstantinovich Filippov (Khimki, Russia), Vasily Alexeevich Rufitskiy (Vladimir, Russia) and Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Template matching (TM) costs for a coding unit (CU) may be used to determine a bi-directional prediction with CU weights (BCW) weights to predict the CU. The TM cost may be determined based on templates of a block (e.g., a current block and/or a reference block). The TM cost may be determined based on one or more c...