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

Claim 0:
1. 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;
perform 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;
perform, 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

encode the first and second LCUs into a bitstream using the first, second, third, and fourth partitioning and coding mode selections.