Patent ID: 9374591
Filing Date: 2016-06-21
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method of decoding image, the method comprising: extracting information that indicates an intra prediction mode applied to a current block to be decoded, from a bitstream; determining one of non-filtered neighboring pixels adjacent to the current block, first filtered neighboring pixels filtered by using the neighboring pixels according to a first filtering method, and second filtered neighboring pixels filtered by using the neighboring pixels according to a second filtering method as reference pixels, based on at least one of a size of the current block and an intra prediction mode of the current block; performing intra prediction on the current block using the extracted information and the determined reference pixels, wherein, when the current block has a size of N×N, where N is integer, the neighboring pixels include 2N neighboring pixels adjacent to an upper side and an upper right side of the current block and 2N neighboring pixels adjacent to a left side and a below left side of the current block, wherein the image is split into a plurality of maximum coding units, according to information about a maximum size of a coding unit, the maximum coding unit is hierarchically split into one or more coding units of depths according to split information, a coding unit of a current depth is one of rectangular data units split from a coding unit of an upper depth, when the split information indicates a split for the current depth, the coding unit of the current depth is split into coding units of a lower depth, independently from neighboring coding units, and the coding unit of the current depth is split into at least one prediction unit.