US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on March 17 for "Intra prediction method and device using MPM list" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,067, issued on March 17, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Intra prediction method and device using MPM list" was invented by Jie Zhao (Seoul, South Korea), Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Seethal Paluri (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a method by which a decoding device decodes an image is provided. The method comprises the steps of: acquiring image information including primary most probable mode (MPM) flag information and secondary MPM flag information; configuring an MPM list including candidate intra prediction modes for th...