Patent ID: 9467701
Filing Date: 2016-10-11
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A method for encoding video data, the method comprising: receiving or generating the video data, the video data representing a series of pictures; generating a bitstream that includes a sequence of bits that forms an encoded representation of the video data, the bitstream including data that represent a residual quad tree (RQT) for a coding unit (CU) of a picture of the series of pictures, the CU being larger than a maximum-allowable transform unit (TU) size, the RQT including a hierarchy of nodes, wherein a root node of the RQT corresponds to the CU as a whole, each of the nodes of the RQT corresponds to a respective block, and respective leaf nodes of the RQT correspond to respective TUs of the CU, wherein generating bitstream comprises: outputting the bitstream.