US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Oct. 7 for "Luma mapping for template matching" (Russian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,030, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Luma mapping for template matching" was invented by Vasily Alexeevich Rufitskiy (Vladimir, Russia), Alexey Konstantinovich Filippov (Khimki, Russia) and Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The current block may be predicted using a reference block and a difference between templates of the current bock and the reference block. The reference block may be selected from a plurality of candidate reference blocks. The selection may be based on a template matching cost that indicates the differences between the templates of th...