Patent ID: 11949862
Assignee: TENCENT AMERICA LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method of video decoding at a video decoder, comprising:
receiving a bitstream including at least one first syntax element associated with a parent coding unit (CU) in a picture, the at least one first syntax element indicating that a direct split mode is enabled for partitioning the parent CU directly into more than 4 child CUs and indicating one of plural predefined child CU templates, each of the plural child CU templates defining a different set of more than 4 child CUs into which the parent CU may be split and at least one of the child CU templates including child CUs having sizes different from each other;
partitioning, at a single partitioning depth, the parent CU directly into a set of more than 4 child CUs defined by the at least one first syntax element; and
reconstructing the parent CU based on the partitioned more than 4 child CUs.