US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on July 22 for "Video compression using block vector predictor refinement" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,859, issued on July 22, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Video compression using block vector predictor refinement" was invented by Damian Ruiz Coll (Reston, Va.) and Tae Meon Bae (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 in a different frame. The reference block may be indicated by a block vector (BV). The BV may be encoded as difference between a block vector predictor (BVP) and the BV. The BVP may be adjusted to improve prediction accuracy of the BVP."

The patent was filed ...