US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on May 12 for "Magnitude coding and decoding using prediction" (Russian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,807, issued on May 12, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Magnitude coding and decoding using prediction" was invented by Alexey Konstantinovich Filippov (Khimki, Russia), Vasily Alexeevich Rufitskiy (Vladimir, Russia) and Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Encoding and/or decoding a block of a video frame may be based on a previously decoded reference block in the same frame or a different frame. The reference block may be indicated by a block vector (BV). A block vector (BV) may be based on a block vector predictor (BVP) and a block vector difference (BVD). The BVD may be i...