Patent ID: 9357218
Filing Date: 2016-05-31
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method for decoding a video signal comprising at least one coding block with a decoding apparatus, comprising: obtaining, with the decoding apparatus, a plurality of prediction blocks being partitioned from the coding block; obtaining, with the decoding apparatus, merge flag information of a current prediction block of the plurality of prediction blocks from the video signal; and decoding, with the decoding apparatus, the current prediction block based on prediction information of a merging candidate selected from among merging candidates when the merge flag information indicates that prediction information of the current prediction block is determined by prediction information of one of the merging candidates, the merging candidates comprising at least one neighboring prediction block adjacent to the current prediction block, wherein, when the coding block is partitioned into two prediction blocks each of which has a horizontal size greater than a vertical size, and the current prediction block is a bottom prediction block of the two prediction blocks, a top prediction block of the two prediction blocks is not included in the merging candidates.