Patent ID: 8265155

Claim:
A method for a video compression device to partition a block in inter prediction of a video compression process that uses a H.264 standard, comprising: selecting, by a computing unit of the video compression device, one standard reference frame from a plurality of reference frames which are a comparison target in the inter prediction; performing, by the computing unit of the video compression device, a first block size search using the selected standard reference frame; determining, by the computing unit of the video compression device, a first block size of the selected standard reference frame; performing, by the computing unit of the video compression device, a second block size search for a second block size using another one of the plurality of reference frames; and comparing, by the computing unit of the video compression device, the first and second block sizes, and when the first and second block sizes are of an equal value, using the equal value as a partitioning size for a block partitioning.