Patent ID: 11924435
Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 13:
14. A device for video coding, comprising:
a memory to store at least a portion of a video frame, the video frame comprising a first largest coding unit (LCU) and a second LCU horizontally aligned with and immediately to the right of the first LCU, wherein each of the first and second LCUs comprises upper-left, upper-right, lower-left, and lower-right coding units (CUs); and
one or more processors coupled to the memory, the one or more processors to:
perform first integer motion estimation (IME) for the upper-left CU of the second LCU and second IME for the lower-right CU of the first LCU in parallel;
perform, immediately subsequent to the first and second IMEs, third IME for the upper-right CU of the second LCU and fourth IME for the lower-left CU of the second LCU in parallel, wherein the first IME for the upper-left CU of the second LCU uses a first resultant motion vector corresponding to the upper-right CU of the first LCU as a motion vector merge candidate and disables usage of a motion vector merge candidate corresponding to the first LCU; and
encode the first and second LCUs into a bitstream based on the first, second, third, and fourth IMEs.