ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,953, issued on June 24, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Intra prediction-based image coding method and apparatus using MPM list" was invented by Ling Li (Seoul, South Korea), Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jin Heo (Seoul, South Korea), Sunmi Yoo (Seoul, South Korea), Jangwon Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Jungah Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video decoding method according to this document includes constructing a most probable mode (MPM) list by deriving MPM candidates for a current block based on a neighboring block adjacent to the current block, deriving an intra p...