Modification of unification of intra block copy and inter signaling related syntax and semantics

1. In a processing device for processing a video sequence having a plurality of pictures, each picture having a plurality of slices, a method of processing a slice of a current picture, comprising:

determining when a slice of the current picture excludes any predictive coding derived from another picture;

when the slice of the current picture is designated to exclude any predictive coding derived from another picture, setting a flag to a first logic state;

when the slice of the current picture is not designated to exclude any predictive coding derived from another picture, setting the flag to a second logic state; and

bypassing at least a portion of predicted weight processing of inter picture processing of the slice of the current picture according to the logic state of the flag when coding if the flag is in the first logic state,

wherein the slice of the current picture is of one of an intra coding type (I-slice), a predictive coding type (P-slice) and bi-predictive coding type (B-slice),

wherein the processing of the slice is performed according to a slice a header having inter picture processing,

wherein bypassing at least a portion of the predicted weight processing of the inter picture processing of the current picture according to the logic state of the flag comprises:

skipping at least a portion of the inter picture processing of the slice of the current picture including the at least a portion of the predicted weight processing according to the flag and a determination that the slice is a P-type slice or a B-type slice, and

wherein the skipped at least a portion of the inter picture processing comprises:

B-slice motion vector difference signaling;

entropy coding method signaling processing;

collocated reference picture signaling;

weighted prediction signaling processing; and

integer motion vector signaling processing.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining if the slice of the current picture excludes any predictive coding reference to another picture comprises:

determining if the current picture is an intra random access (IRAP) picture;

determining if the current picture is permitted to be a reference picture for itself; and

when the current picture is an IRAP picture and the current picture is permitted to be a reference picture of itself, determining that the slice of the current picture excludes reference to another picture.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein:

the current picture is determined to be an IRAP picture according to a network abstraction layer (NAL) unit value in a range associated with a broken link access (BLA) picture, an instantaneous decoder refresh (IDR) picture, and a clean random access (CRA) picture.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the current picture is permitted to be its reference picture according to a second flag in a parameter set associated with the picture.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the skipped at least a portion of the inter picture processing includes:

reference picture index signaling;

reference picture list modification signaling;

B-slice motion vector difference signaling;

entropy coding method signaling processing;

collocated reference picture signaling;

weighted prediction signaling processing;

motion vector maximum candidate signaling processing; and

integer motion vector signaling processing.