ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,159, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Matrix-based intra prediction device and method" was invented by Mehdi Salehifar (Seoul, South Korea) and Seunghwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image decoding method according to the present document can comprise the steps of: receiving flag information indicating whether a matrix-based intra prediction (MIP) is used with respect to a current block; receiving matrix-based intra prediction (MIP) mode information on the basis of the flag information; generating an intra prediction sample for the current block on the basis of...