Patent ID: 8654860

Claim:
A method for video coding, the method comprising: partitioning video input data into largest coding units (LCUs); configuring a slice to include a plurality of LCUs, having a first LCU and a last LCU; wherein the first LCU and the last LCU are selected from a group consisting of a fractional LCU and a whole LCU and wherein the fractional LCU is formed by partitioning the whole LCU into leaf CUs according to a quadtree; applying video coding to the slice to generate compressed video data for the slice; generating a slice layer bitstream comprising the compressed video data for the slice, further comprising: incorporating first information at a sequence level, wherein the first information indicates minimum CU size required for a leaf CU in the last LCU to incorporate an end of slice flag; incorporating a first flag in each of the LCUs in the slice to indicate possibility of being the last LCU in the slice; incorporating the end of slice flag in the leaf CU of the last LCU indicated by the first flag if the leaf CU is same or larger than the minimum CU size for the end of slice; and incorporating the end of slice flag for sharing by the leaf CUs of the last LCU indicated by the first flag, wherein the leaf CUs sharing the end of slice flag are within a block having the minimum CU size for the end of slice; and generating a video bitstream comprising the slice layer bitstream.