Patent ID: 9582845
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: G06T,H04N

Claim:
1. A method of determining a partitioning pattern used to divide texture data elements of a block of texture data elements into separate partitions within the block for encoding and decoding purposes, the method comprising: when a given block of texture data elements is to be encoded, using by processing circuitry a partitioning pattern generation function to create one or more partitioning patterns to be used to divide texture data elements of the block of texture data elements into separate partitions within the block for encoding and decoding purposes, the partitioning pattern generation function creating the one or more partitioning patterns by sorting the texture data elements into respective partitions within the block of texture data elements without using one or more pre-defined partitioning patterns stored in memory; testing by the processing circuitry the encoding of the block of texture data elements using one or more of the created partitioning patterns; and selecting by the processing circuitry a partitioning pattern to use when encoding the block on the basis of the testing.