ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,145, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Intra-prediction method and device based on intra-prediction mode derivation" was invented by Sunmi Yoo (Seoul, South Korea), Hyeongmoon Jang (Seoul, South Korea), Jangwon Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the present disclosure, a method by which a decoding device decodes an image comprises the steps of: acquiring a bit-stream including image information; deriving a decoder-side intra mode derivation (DIMD) mode for the current block; deriving an intra-prediction mode for the cu...