Patent ID: 8824541

Claim:
A method for decoding a video frame in a video sequence, said method comprising: a) receiving a bitstream; b) identifying a reconstruction slice in said bitstream; c) analyzing a flag of a slice header in said bitstream, d) identifying a first partitioned slice and a second partitioned slice, each of which is a partitioning of a region of a picture in said reconstruction slice in said bitstream; e) entropy decoding said first partitioned slice, thereby producing a first entropy-decoded partitioned slice; f) entropy decoding said second partitioned slice, thereby producing a second entropy-decoded partitioned slice; g) reconstructing a first portion of a video frame associated with said first partitioned slice using said first entropy-decoded partitioned slice, thereby producing a first reconstructed portion of said video frame; and h) reconstructing a second portion of said video frame associated with said second partitioned slice using said second entropy-decoded partitioned slice and said first reconstructed portion of said video frame; wherein in case of said flag is equal to 1, said slice header is a partitioned slice header, in case of said flag being equal to 0, said slice header is a regular slice header, and said partitioned slice header is different than the regular slice header and shares some of the slice attributes with said regular slice header, and the size of said partitioned slice header is smaller than the size of said regular slice header.