ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,973, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea), KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) and DIGITALINSIGHTS INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for video coding using matrix based cross-component prediction" was invented by Yong Jo Ahn (Seoul, South Korea), Jong Seok Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Seung Wook Park (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for video coding using a matrix-based cross-component prediction are disclosed. The video coding method and apparatus predict a chroma component of a current block, by using a deep learning-based matrix oper...