Patent ID: 8619856

Claim:
A method of encoding video data, the method comprising: receiving, with a video encoder, a video block having a size of more than 16Ã—16 pixels; partitioning the video block into partitions; encoding one of the partitions using a first encoding mode, wherein the first encoding mode comprises intra-prediction encoding mode (I-mode), and wherein encoding the partition using the first encoding mode comprises predicting the partition from one or more neighboring pixels according to the I-mode; encoding another of the partitions using a second encoding mode, wherein the second encoding mode comprises one of I-mode, P-mode, and B-mode, and wherein the second encoding mode is different from the first encoding mode; and generating block-type syntax information for the video block that indicates the size of the video block and identifies the partitions of the video block and the encoding modes used to encode the partitions.