US Patent Issued to InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings on Feb. 18 for "Method and apparatus for video encoding and decoding with matrix based intra-prediction" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,643, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Method and apparatus for video encoding and decoding with matrix based intra-prediction" was invented by Franck Galpin (Thorigne-Fouillard, France), Fabien Racape (San Francisco), Jean Begaint (Menlo Park, Calif.), Swayambhoo Jain (Milpitas, Calif.) and Shahab Hamidi-Rad (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Different implementations are described, particularly implementations for video encoding and decoding based on linear weighted intra prediction, also called matrix based intra prediction, are presented. Accordingly, for a block ...