US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Sept. 23 for "Methods, systems, and apparatuses for content-adaptive multi-layer coding based on neural networks" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,615, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Methods, systems, and apparatuses for content-adaptive multi-layer coding based on neural networks" was invented by Dan Grois (Beer-Sheva, Israel) and Alexander Giladi (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for encoding video. Video content to be encoded and sent to a computing device may be downscaled into one or more layers. The one or more layers may represent one or more versions of the video content such as one or more versions encoded at different resolutions. The residuals between each lay...