Patent ID: 9319716
Filing Date: 2016-04-19
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method of encoding video data, the method comprising: determining spatial candidate motion vectors associated with a current portion of a current video frame, wherein the spatial candidate motion vectors comprise motion vectors determined for neighboring portions of the current video frame adjacent to the current portion, and wherein determining the spatial candidate motion vector comprises pruning only the spatial candidate motion vectors to remove duplicate ones of the spatial candidate motion vectors; determining a temporal candidate motion vector associated with the current portion of the current video frame, wherein the temporal candidate motion vector comprises a motion vector determined for a portion of a reference video frame, wherein the determined temporal candidate motion vector is a duplicate of one of the spatial candidate motion vectors, and wherein the spatial candidate motion vectors and the determined temporal candidate motion vectors each comprises a vertical component and a horizontal component; selecting the temporal candidate motion vector or one of the spatial candidate motion vectors remaining after pruning as a selected candidate motion vector for a motion vector prediction process; and signaling the selected candidate motion vector in a bitstream.