Weighted angular prediction coding for intra coding

1. An apparatus for coding video data comprising one or more processors configured to:

receive a bitstream indicating how a coding tree unit was partitioned into coding units according to a partitioning structure that allows nodes to be split according to a partitioning technique;

parsing said bitstream to generate at least one predictor based on an intra prediction mode signaled in the bitstream, the intra prediction mode selected from a plurality of intra prediction modes for calculating a prediction pixel P[x,y] at coordinate x,y for the coding unit,

wherein the prediction pixel P[x,y] at coordinate x,y for the coding unit is calculated according to:

P [ x,y ]=(((( x+ 1)*recon[ x+y+ 2,−1])+(( y+ 1)*(recon[−1, x+y+ 2]))+( y+x+ 2)/2)/( y+x+ 2))

wherein recon[x,y] are reconstructed pixels;

wherein a number of intra prediction modes available for coding the coding unit are reduced by replacing two or more non-weighted intra prediction modes by a weighted intra prediction mode.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein 65 JVET intra angular prediction modes are reduced to 64 intra prediction modes by replacing a non-weighted intra prediction mode 2 and a non-weighted intra prediction mode 66 with at least one of a weighted intra prediction mode 2 or a weighted intra prediction mode 66 .

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the calculation uses a weighted average of reconstructed pixels of one or more above neighboring blocks and the reconstructed pixels of one or more left neighboring blocks as the predictions for the pixels within the coding unit; and

using the prediction pixel based on the weighted average to code the coding unit.

4. A method of intra prediction coding of a JVET bitstream, the method comprising:

receive a bitstream indicating how a coding tree unit was partitioned into coding units according to a partitioning structure that allows nodes to be split according to a partitioning technique;

select a coding unit for coding;

calculating a prediction pixel P[x,y] at coordinate x,y for the coding unit according to:

p [ x,y ]=(((( x+ 1)*recon[ x+y+ 2,−1])+(( y+ 1)*(recon[−1, x+y+ 2]))+( y+x+ 2)/2)/( y+x+ 2))

wherein recon[x,y] are reconstructed pixels,

wherein the calculation uses a weighted average of reconstructed pixels of one or more above neighboring blocks and the reconstructed pixels of one or more left neighboring blocks as the predictions for the pixels within the coding unit; and

using the prediction pixel based on the weighted average to code the coding unit.