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

Claim 9:
10. At least one non-transitory machine readable medium comprising a plurality of instructions that, in response to being executed on a computing device, cause the computing device to code video by:
receiving first and second largest coding units (LCUs) of a video frame, wherein the second LCU is horizontally aligned with and immediately to the right of the LCU and each of the first and second LCUs comprises upper-left, upper-right, lower-left, and lower-right coding units (CUs);
performing 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;
performing, 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;
performing first partitioning and coding mode selections for the upper-left CU of the second LCU and second partitioning and coding mode selections for the lower-right CU of the first LCU in parallel;
performing, immediately subsequent to the first and second partitioning and coding mode selections, third partitioning and coding mode selections for the upper-right CU of the second LCU and fourth partitioning and coding mode selections for the lower-left CU of the second LCU in parallel, wherein the first, second, third, and fourth partitioning and coding mode selections are based on the first, second, third, and fourth IMEs, respectively; and
encoding the first and second LCUs into a bitstream using the first, second, third, and fourth partitioning and coding mode selections.