US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on June 23 for "Clustering BVP candidates" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,039, issued on June 23, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Clustering BVP candidates" was invented by Damian Ruiz Coll (Reston, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flipping or non-flipping type of each BVP candidate in a candidate list may require correct classification/identification, for example, for correct reordering and accurate refinement A block vector predictor (BVP) candidate list may be adjusted to provide a more accurate prediction of a block vector (BV). A coder (e.g., encoder or decoder) may determine a final candidate list, for example, by pruning invalid candidates."

The patent was file...