US Patent Issued to Ofinno on June 2 for "Template matching based decoder side intra mode prediction" (Russian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,576, issued on June 2, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Template matching based decoder side intra mode prediction" was invented by Kalyan Goswami (Reston, Va.), Alexey Konstantinovich Filippov (Khimki, Russia), Vasily Alexeevich Rufitskiy (Vladimir, Russia) and Damian Ruiz Coll (Reston, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus determines a first template of a first block of samples. The apparatus searches, in a search region based on the first template, for a second template of a second block of samples. The apparatus decodes the first block of samples based on an intra prediction mode determined for the second block...