US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Sept. 1 for "Flipped templates for reconstruction-reordered intra block copy" (Russian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,608, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Flipped templates for reconstruction-reordered intra block copy" was invented by Vasily Alexeevich Rufitskiy (Vladimir, Russia), Alexey Konstantinovich Filippov (Khimki, Russia) and Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A current block may be encoded/decoded based on a reference block flipped relative to the current block. An indication of whether a value of a parameter (e.g., a block vector difference) indicating the reference block matches a value of a predictor for the parameter (e.g., a block vector difference predi...