US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Oct. 28 for "Video compression using template-based determination of intra prediction mode" (Russian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,328, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Video compression using template-based determination of intra prediction mode" was invented by Young-Yoon Lee (McLean, Va.), Alexey Konstantinovich Filippov (Khimki, Russia) and Vasily Alexeevich Rufitskiy (Vladimir, Russia).

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 previously decoded reference information in the frame. A weighted sum of the reference information may be used as a prediction of the block for encoding and/or decoding the block. The weights to be applied for determining the weig...