Patent ID: 8345757

Claim:
A method of deriving a motion vector of a bi-predictive block based on a list 0 motion vector of a co-located block in a first reference picture performed by a moving picture coding system, comprising: selecting, by the moving picture coding system, the list 0 motion vector of the co-located block for the bi-predictive block as a motion vector for deriving motion vectors of the bi-predictive block regardless of whether the co-located block includes a list 1 motion vector if the co-located block has the list 0 motion vector, the first reference picture being a type of reference picture permitted to be located temporally before a current picture when the first reference picture precedes the current picture and permitted to be located temporally after the current picture when the first reference picture follows the current picture, the current picture including the bi-predictive block; scaling, by the moving picture coding system, the selected motion vector of the co-located block in the first reference picture based on a temporal distance between the current picture and a second reference picture referred by the co-located block; and deriving, by the moving picture coding system, the motion vector of the bi-predictive block based on the scaled motion vector of the co-located block.