US Patent Issued to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES on June 23 for "Matrix-based intra prediction device and method" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,048, issued on June 23, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"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: on the basis of first flag information indicating whether or not matrix-based intra prediction (MIP) can be applied to a current block, receiving second flag information indicating whether or not the MIP is used for the current block; receiving matrix-based intra prediction (MIP) mode information on th...