US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Feb. 24 for "Methods, systems, and apparatuses for detecting blockiness in content" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,239, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Methods, systems, and apparatuses for detecting blockiness in content" was invented by Matthew Robert Ebersviller (Centennial, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses for detecting blockiness in frames of content are described herein. Frame of content may include blocks of pixels. Blockiness may be perceptible in encoded frames, once decoded, due to encoding-related artifacts and/or other artifacts related to processing and/or delivery of the content. Cumulative differences between neighboring pixel values within a...