Patent ID: 8548056

Claim:
A method of coding information in a scalable video coding (SVC) scheme comprising: coding, by a video coder, first video blocks defined in a base layer of the SVC scheme; and coding second video blocks defined in an enhancement layer of the SVC scheme, wherein the second video blocks provide spatial scalability enhancement relative to the first video blocks, and wherein coding the second video blocks comprises: performing inter-layer prediction for the enhancement layer relative to the base layer for a first subset of the second video blocks that fully overlap the first video blocks; and performing inter-layer prediction to code an overlapping portion of a second subset of the second video blocks, wherein the second subset of the second video blocks partially overlap the first video blocks; and performing a supplemental coding technique to code a non-overlapping portion of the second subset of the second video blocks, wherein the supplemental coding technique is different than the inter-layer prediction.