US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Oct. 28 for "Video compression using boundary based template refinement" (Russian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,324, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Video compression using boundary based template refinement" was invented by Alexey Konstantinovich Filippov (Khimki, Russia), Vasily Alexeevich Rufitskiy (Vladimir, Russia) and Damian Ruiz Coll (Reston, 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 template associated with the block. The length of the template may be determined based on at least one of: a position of the block relative to a boundary, available reference samples above the boundary, and/or the length of a second template of ...