US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Oct. 21 for "Scene classification and learning for video compression" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,436, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Scene classification and learning for video compression" was invented by Weidong Mao (West Windsor, N.J.) and Alexander Giladi (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for encoding a scene of media content based on visual elements of the scene. A scene of media content may comprise one or more visual elements, such as individual objects in the scene. Each visual element may be classified based on, for example, the motion and/or identity of the visual element. Based on the visual element clas...