US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Oct. 7 for "Edge feature-assisted processing of multiview images" (Finnish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,056, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Edge feature-assisted processing of multiview images" was invented by Vinod Kumar Malamal Vadakital (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multiview images may comprise attribute frames and geometry frames. Samples of a geometry frames may comprise depth information corresponding to collocated samples of the attribute frames. Additional edge feature frames may be generated, for the multiview images, with samples of the edge feature frame indicating whether collocated samples of the geometry frames are at edges and/or discontinuities. Inf...