US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Nov. 11 for "Magnitude symbol determination for encoding and decoding" (Russian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,714, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Magnitude symbol determination for encoding and decoding" 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 difference (BVD) predictor may be used to make predictions about the symbols of one or more m...