US Patent Issued to MediaTek on March 31 for "Adaptive regions for decoder-side intra mode derivation and prediction" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,037, issued on March 31, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Adaptive regions for decoder-side intra mode derivation and prediction" was invented by Hong-Hui Chen (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chia-Ming Tsai (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Chih-Wei Hsu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video coding method using decoder-side intra mode derivation (DIMD) based on multiple histograms of gradients (HoGs) is provided. A video coder receives data to be encoded or decoded as a current block of a current picture of a video. The video coder derives a plurality of HoGs for different intra prediction angles. Differ...