Patent ID: 11924473
Assignee: SK TELECOM CO., LTD.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 9:
10. A method for encoding a video sequence of pictures, the apparatus comprising:
determining a current coding unit to be encoded among coding units which are divided from a current picture by block partitioning; and
encoding, into a coding unit level of a bitstream, syntax elements resulting from encoding of the current coding unit; and
reconstructing the current coding unit,
wherein the encoding of the syntax elements comprising:
encoding prediction syntax elements for the current coding unit at the coding unit level, the prediction syntax elements including a skip flag indicating whether the current coding unit is predicted in a skip mode; and
encoding, after the encoding of the prediction syntax elements, transform syntax elements for the current coding unit at the coding unit level, wherein the transform syntax elements include a single flag of coding unit cbf indicating whether all coefficients in both of a luma block and two chroma blocks constituting the current coding unit are zero; and
wherein the transform syntax elements are not encoded until the encoding of the prediction syntax elements is completed, and are not encoded when the skip flag indicates that the current coding unit is predicted in the skip mode.