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

Claim 15:
16. An apparatus of video decoding, comprising:
circuitry configured to
receive a bitstream including at least one syntax element associated with a parent coding unit (CU) in a picture, the at least one 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;
partition, at a single partitioning depth, the parent CU directly into a set of more than 4 child CUs defined by the at least one syntax element; and

reconstruct the parent CU based on the partitioned more than 4 child CUs.