US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Oct. 14 for "Method and apparatus for content-adaptive frame duration extension" (New Jersey Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,629, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Method and apparatus for content-adaptive frame duration extension" was invented by Alexander Giladi (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described herein for processing video data. An encoder may transmit information indicating a duration that a particular frame should be displayed. The information may comprise an indication of whether the particular frame should be displayed for an increased duration. The encoder may decide during encoding, a whether the particular frame should be displayed for an increased d...