US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Oct. 14 for "Block vector predictor candidate selection" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,599, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Block vector predictor candidate selection" was invented by Damian Ruiz Coll (Reston, Va.) and Vikas Warudkar (Herndon, 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 selected based on a distance between the BVP and another BVP which may improve diversit...