Method of deriving motion information

1. A method of reconstructing video data using a merge mode, the method comprising:

constructing a merge list using available spatial and temporal merge candidates;

determining a merge candidate on the merge list corresponding to a merge index as motion information of a current prediction unit;

generating a predicted block of the current prediction unit using the motion information;

generating a transformed block by inverse-quantizing a block of quantized coefficients using a quantization parameter;

generating a residual block by inverse-transforming the transformed block; and

generating a reconstructed block using the predicted block and the residual block,

wherein when the current prediction unit is a second prediction unit partitioned by asymmetric partitioning, a spatial merge candidate corresponding to a first prediction unit partitioned by the asymmetric partitioning is excluded from the merge list, and a motion vector of a temporal merge candidate is determined depending on a position of the current prediction unit within a largest coding unit (LCU),

wherein the quantization parameter is derived per a quantization unit and a minimum size of the quantization unit is adjusted per picture,

wherein, when a left quantization parameter of a current coding unit is not available and an above quantization parameter and a previous quantization parameter of the current coding unit are available, a quantization parameter predictor is set as an average of the above quantization parameter and the previous quantization parameter of the current coding unit, and when the above quantization parameter of the current coding unit is not available and the left quantization parameter and the previous quantization parameter of the current coding unit are available, the quantization parameter predictor is set as an average of the left quantization parameter and the previous quantization parameter of the current coding unit.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein a reference picture index and a motion vector of the current prediction unit are a reference picture index and a motion vector of a merge candidate corresponding to the merge index.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the reference picture index of the temporal merge candidate is set as 0.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein a motion vector of the temporal merge candidate is a motion vector of a temporal merge candidate block within a temporal merge candidate picture, and a position of the temporal merge candidate block is determined depending on a position of a current block within the LCU.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the motion vector of the temporal merge candidate is a motion vector of a motion vector storing unit corresponding to the position of the temporal merge candidate block.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein a size of the motion vector storing unit is 16×16.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein if multiple coding units belong to the quantization unit, the quantization parameter for a first coding unit of the multiple coding units is derived and used for the multiple coding units.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein if an absolute value of a differential quantization parameter is zero, a bin indicating a sign of the differential quantization parameter does not exist.

9. A method of reconstructing video data using a merge mode, the method comprising:

constructing a merge list using available spatial and temporal merge candidates;

determining a merge candidate on the merge list corresponding to motion information of a current prediction unit and generating a merge index which specifies the motion information on the merge list, wherein the merge index is entropy encoded;

generating a predicted block of the current prediction unit using the motion information;

generating a transformed block by inverse-quantizing a block of quantized coefficients using a quantization parameter;

generating a residual block by inverse-transforming the transformed block; and

generating a reconstructed block using the predicted block and the residual block,

wherein when the current prediction unit is a second prediction unit partitioned by asymmetric partitioning, a spatial merge candidate corresponding to a first prediction unit partitioned by the asymmetric partitioning is excluded from the merge list, and a motion vector of a temporal merge candidate is determined depending on a position of the current prediction unit within a largest coding unit (LCU),

wherein the quantization parameter is derived per a quantization unit and a minimum size of the quantization unit is adjusted per picture,

wherein, when a left quantization parameter of a current coding unit is not available and an above quantization parameter and a previous quantization parameter of the current coding unit are available, a quantization parameter predictor is set as an average of the above quantization parameter and the previous quantization parameter of the current coding unit, and when the above quantization parameter of the current coding unit is not available and the left quantization parameter and the previous quantization parameter of the current coding unit are available, the quantization parameter predictor is set as an average of the left quantization parameter and the previous quantization parameter of the current coding unit.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing information causing a decoding apparatus to carry out the method of reconstructing video data using a merge mode of claim 1 .