Patent ID: 9319713
Filing Date: 2016-04-19
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A decoding apparatus comprising: an extractor which extracts, from a bitstream, split information of a coding unit and partition type information; and a decoder which splits a picture into a plurality of maximum coding units, hierarchically splits at least one coding unit from a maximum coding unit among the plurality of maximum coding units based on the split information, determines a position of a current prediction unit in a current coding unit among the at least one coding unit based on the partition type information, determines a lower-left position outside of the current prediction unit based on the partition type information and the position of the current prediction unit, determines a scan index of a minimum unit corresponding to the lower-left position; and when the scan index of the minimum unit corresponding to the lower-left position is less than a scan index of a minimum unit included in the current prediction unit, determines that a neighboring unit corresponding to the lower-left position is available to use for the current prediction unit, wherein the scan index follows a raster scan order between the plural maximum coding units, wherein the scan index follows an upper-left, upper-right, lower-left, and lower-right order between the coding units and between the minimum units in the coding units, wherein the split information indicates whether a coding unit of a first depth is split into coding units of a second depth lower than the first depth, wherein the current coding unit is a coding unit which is not split according to the split information, wherein the current prediction unit is determined by splitting the current coding unit based on the partition type information, wherein the minimum unit corresponding to the lower-left position is located below and to the left of the current prediction unit in the picture where the current prediction unit is located, and wherein the partition type information indicates a partition type of asymmetrically splitting the current coding unit along a height or a width of the current coding unit.