ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,776, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and device for intra prediction based on plurality of DIMD modes" was invented by Jie Zhao (Seoul, South Korea), Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Seethal Paluri (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment of the present specification, provided is an image decoding method performed by a decoding device. The method comprises the steps of: acquiring, from a bitstream, image information comprising information related to decoder-side intra mode derivation (DIMD); determining, on the basis of the information r...