Patent ID: 9225987
Filing Date: 2015-12-29
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of decoding a video, the method comprising: receiving a bitstream of encoded video; extracting, from the bitstream, split information of a coding unit in a maximum coding unit of a picture; when the split information indicates a split for a current depth, splitting a coding unit of the current depth, independently from neighboring coding units, into coding units of a lower depth; and when the split information indicates a non-split for the current depth, determining at least one partition from the coding unit of the current depth and decoding the coding unit of the current depth by performing a prediction based on the at least one partition, wherein, when skip information for the coding unit of the current depth indicates a skip mode, the coding unit of the current depth is decoded by performing a prediction in the skip mode based on a partition having a size equal to a size of the coding unit of the current depth, and when the skip information for the coding unit of the current depth does not indicate the skip mode, the coding unit of the current depth is decoded by performing a prediction in a prediction mode indicated by prediction mode information obtained from the bitstream.