US Patent Issued to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings on Feb. 10 for "Matrix-based intra prediction with asymmetric binary tree" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,731, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Matrix-based intra prediction with asymmetric binary tree" was invented by Fabrice Le Leannec (Cesson-Sevigne, France), Karam Naser (Cesson-Sevigne, France), Thierry Dumas (Cesson-Sevigne, France) and Franck Galpin (Cesson-Sevigne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Several methods are described to jointly use the ABT (Asymmetric Binary Tree) partitioning mode and Matrix-based Intra Prediction (MIP). In a first embodiment, we propose to forbid the use of the MIP intra prediction mode, for block sizes that are resulted from ABT partitioning. In a ...