ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,413, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Selection of an extended intra prediction mode" was invented by Narae Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Bora Jin (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yinji Piao (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Minwoo Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a video decoding method and a video decoding device, which, during video encoding and decoding processes, obtain most probable mode (MPM) information indicating whether to use MPMs of a current block determined based on at least two of a prediction mode of a left neighboring block adjacent to ...