Patent Document ID: 9973750
Application ID: 13812026
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A video encoding apparatus for encoding a current block which is located in a current frame, the apparatus comprising: an inter-predictor configured to generate a reference template surrounding at least two sides of the current block, the reference template comprised of pixels within one or more pre-encoded adjacent blocks in the current frame which are adjacent to the current block, wherein the reference template does not include pixels in the current block, search for, in a previously encoded reference frame other than the current frame, a predicted template which has a shape corresponding to the reference template and pixel values similar to the reference template, and set split information of the current block as split information of a central block surrounded by pixels in the predicted template, and generate a predicted block by predicting each partition divided from the current block based on the split information of the current block; a subtractor configured to generate a residual block by subtracting the predicted block from the current block; a transformer and quantizer configured to generate a transformed and quantized residual block by transforming and quantizing the residual block; and an encoder configured to encode the transformed and quantized residual block, without encoding the split information of the current block.