US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on April 15 for "Allowing a matrix based intra prediction block to have multiple transform blocks" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,993, issued on April 15, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Allowing a matrix based intra prediction block to have multiple transform blocks" was invented by Zhi Zhang (Solna, Sweden), Kenneth Andersson (Gavle, Sweden), Davood Saffar (Solna, Sweden), Rickard Sjoberg (Stockholm), Jacob Strom (Stockholm) and Ruoyang Yu (Taby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, decoder, and apparatus are provided. Responsive to a current block being a MIP predicted block, it is determined whether it has one or multiple transform blocks. A MIP weight matrix to be used to decode the current block is determined...