ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,955, issued on July 8, was assigned to BEIJING DAJIA INTERNET INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Methods and apparatus of video coding using improved matrix-based intra prediction coding mode" was invented by Tsung-chuan Ma (San Diego), Xianglin Wang (San Diego), Yi-wen Chen (San Diego), Xiaoyu Xiu (San Diego), Hong-Jheng Jhu (San Diego), Shuiming Ye (San Diego) and Yun-fei Zheng (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus performs a method of updating a most probable modes candidate list for a current block of video data. The electronic apparatus first identifies a neighboring block located at a predefi...