US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Feb. 25 for "Matrix-based intra prediction device and method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,299, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Matrix-based intra prediction device and method" was invented by Mehdi Salehifar (Seoul, South Korea) and Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method according to the present document may comprise the steps of: receiving flag information indicating whether or not matrix-based intra prediction (MIP) is to be used for a current block; receiving matrix-based intra prediction (MIP) mode information on the basis of the flag information; generating intra prediction samples for the current block on the basis of th...