US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Feb. 3 for "Method and apparatus for down-sampling and up-sampling in matrix intra prediction for video" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,923, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for down-sampling and up-sampling in matrix intra prediction for video" was invented by Saifeng Ni (Santa Clara, Calif.), Madhukar Budagavi (Plano, Texas) and Rajan Laxman Joshi (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a communication interface configured to receive a bitstream for a compressed video and a processor operably coupled to the communication interface. The processor is configured to decode the bitstream for the compressed video and obtain reference samples associated with a block of a vi...