Patent ID: 11863739
Assignee: INTERDIGITAL VC HOLDINGS, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 14:
15. An apparatus comprising: a memory; and a processor, configured to perform: intra frame prediction for a portion of a video image comprising one or more block of predicted samples, wherein said intra frame prediction production comprises:
if one or more reference samples are unavailable or missing on a line bordering one edge of said one or more prediction units, or portion thereof, for a particular directional mode, replacing the particular directional mode with a counterpart directional mode that is oppositely directed to the particular directional mode when reference samples are available in the counterpart directional mode direction;
and filling pixels of the prediction unit with the available reference samples of said another line using the counterpart directional mode; and, decoding said portion of a video image using said intra frame prediction.