US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Dec. 30 for "Magnitude prediction with candidate pruning" (Russian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,302, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Magnitude prediction with candidate pruning" was invented by Vasily Alexeevich Rufitskiy (Vladimir, Russia), Alexey Konstantinovich Filippov (Khimki, Russia) and Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Encoding and/or decoding a block of a video frame may be based on a previously decoded reference block in the same frame or a different frame. The reference block may be indicated by a block vector (BV). A block vector difference (BVD) predictor may be used to make predictions about the magnitude of a BVD. The BVD predictor...