IP Library Granted Patent US 9,930,359
Granted Patent B2
US 9,930,359 · App. 15/378,101 · Granted Mar 27, 2018

Method for inducing a merge candidate block and device using same

Inventors: Bae Keun Lee (Gyeonggi-do, KR); Jae Cheol Kwon (Daejeon, KR); Joo Young Kim (Gyeonggi-do, KR)
Assignee: KT CORPORATION
H04N19/52H04N19/122H04N19/436H04N19/61H04N19/91H04N19/176
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Patent No.
US 9,930,359
App. No.
15/378,101
Granted
Mar 27, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for inducing a merge candidate block and a device using same. An image decoding method involves decoding motion estimation region (MER) related information; determining whether or not a predicted target block and a spatial merge candidate block are included in the same MER; and determining the spatial merge candidate block to be an unavailable merge candidate block when the predicted target block and the spatial merge candidate block are included in the same MER. Accordingly, by parallely performing the method for inducing a merge candidate, parallel processing is enabled and the computation amount and implementation complexity are reduced.

Claims (12)

1. A method of decoding a video signal under a merge mode in a decoding apparatus, the method comprising:

obtaining a spatial merge candidate of a current block from a neighboring block adjacent to the current block, motion prediction related information of the spatial merge candidate being determined based on the neighboring block

obtaining a collocated reference index for identifying a collocated picture among a plurality of previously decoded pictures;

determining the collocated picture having a different temporal order from a current picture including a current block based on the collocated reference index, wherein one of a plurality of decoded pictures specified by the collocated reference index is determined to be the collocated picture; and

determining a collocated block included in the collocated picture based on whether or not a boundary of the current block adjoins a boundary of a largest coding unit;

obtaining a temporal merge candidate of the current block from the collocated block in the collocated picture, motion prediction related information of the temporal merge candidate being determined based on the collocated block;

generating a merge candidate list including the spatial merge candidate and the temporal merge candidate; and

performing inter prediction of the current block based on the generated merge candidate list.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the adjoined boundary of the current block and the largest coding unit is a bottom boundary.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the collocated block is determined to be one of a first block including a position corresponding to a bottom-right position of the current block and a second block including a position corresponding to a central position of the current block.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein when the bottom boundary of the current block does not adjoin the bottom boundary of the largest coding unit, one of the first block and the second block is determined to be the collocated block, and

wherein when the bottom boundary of the current block adjoins the bottom boundary of the largest coding unit, the other of the first block and the second block is determined to be the collocated block.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 14, 2016
From: LEE, BAE KEUN; KWON, JAE CHEOL; KIM, JOO YOUNG
To: KT CORPORATION
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Priority Claims (2)
KR 10-2011-0096138 · Sep 23, 2011 · national
KR 10-2012-0039500 · Apr 17, 2012 · national
Continuity (3)
Continuation 14971260 · Dec 16, 2015
Continuation 13977778
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