US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Oct. 7 for "Matrix intra prediction-based image coding apparatus and method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,028, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Matrix intra prediction-based image coding apparatus and method" was invented by Jangwon Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Jin Heo (Seoul, South Korea), Sunmi Yoo (Seoul, South Korea), Jungah Choi (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 includes obtaining image information including prediction mode information from a bitstream, obtaining matrix-based intra prediction (MIP) flag information related to whether an MIP is applied to a current block based on the prediction mode information, d...