Patent ID: 8351503

Claim:
A method of deriving a motion vector of a bi-predictive block based on temporal distances associated with a co-located block in a first reference picture performed by a moving picture coding system, comprising: selecting, by the moving picture coding system, a list 0 motion vector of the co-located block in the first reference picture as a motion vector for deriving motion vectors of the bi-predictive block if the co-located block has both a list 1 motion vector and 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; deriving, by the moving picture coding system, a first temporal distance between the current picture and a second reference picture referred by the co-located block; deriving, by the moving picture coding system, a second temporal distance between the first reference picture and the second reference picture; scaling, by the moving picture coding system, the selected motion vector based on the first and second temporal distances; and deriving, by the moving picture coding system, the motion vector of the bi-predictive block based on the scaled motion vector.