Patent ID: 11956446
Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 6:
7. A video system for decoding an encoded video bit stream, comprising:
an entropy decoding component configured to:
decode a merge flag for an individual inter-predicted prediction unit (PU) from the encoded video bit stream, wherein decoding the merge flag is independent of a maximum number of motion vector candidates for a merging candidate list;
construct the merging candidate list for the inter-predicted PU; and
add at least one zero motion vector merging candidate to the merging candidate list;

an inverse quantization component coupled to the entropy decoding component and configured to de-quantize quantized transform coefficients of residual prediction units decoded from the encoded video bit stream;
an inverse transform component coupled to the inverse quantization component and configured to inverse transform the transform coefficients of residual prediction units from the inverse quantization component from a frequency domain to residual prediction units;
a motion compensation component coupled to the entropy decoding component and configured to form reconstructed prediction units;
an adder component coupled to the motion compensation component and the inverse transform component and configured to combine residual prediction units and reconstructed prediction units;
a memory coupled to the adder component and configured to store a picture; and
a display coupled to the memory to display the picture.