Granted Patent B2

US 12,604,030 · App. 18/955,926 · Granted Apr 14, 2026

Inventor: Bae Keun Lee (Gyeonggi-do, KR)

Assignee: KT CORPORATION

H04N19/521H04N19/52H04N19/577H04N19/597

Abstract

Claims (35)

1 . A method of decoding an image, the method comprising:

deriving one or more merge candidates for a current block, the one or more merge candidates comprising at least one of a spatial merge candidate and a temporal merge candidate;

generating a merge candidate list by adding the merge candidates to the merge candidate list;

obtaining motion information of the current block based on the merge candidate list;

obtaining a prediction sample of the current block based on the motion information; and

obtaining a reconstruction sample based on the prediction sample,

wherein when the number of the merge candidates included in the merge candidate list is less than a threshold, a motion information candidate included in a motion information candidate list is added to the merge candidate list as a merge candidate,

wherein the motion information candidate included in the motion information candidate list is derived based on motion information of a spatial block that is included in the same slice as the current block, and

wherein after adding the motion information candidate to the merge candidate list, an average merge candidate generated by using two merge candidates included in the merge candidate list is added to the merge candidate list.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the motion information candidate list is updated with the motion information of the current block, and

wherein a new motion information candidate derived based on the motion information of the current block is added with a largest index to the motion information candidate list.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein if a first motion information candidate with a largest index in the motion information candidate list is the same with one of the merge candidates included in the merge candidate list, a second motion information candidate with an index smaller than the first motion information candidate is added to the merge candidate list.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the motion information candidate list is initialized when a new slice is encountered.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein a motion vector of the average merge candidate is derived by averaging motion vectors of the two merge candidates.

6 . A method of encoding an image, the method comprising:

deriving one or more merge candidates of a current block, the one or more merge candidates comprising at least one of a spatial merge candidate and a temporal merge candidate;

generating a merge candidate list by adding the merge candidates to the merge candidate list;

obtaining motion information of the current block based on the merge candidate list;

obtaining a prediction sample of the current block based on the motion information; and

obtaining a residual sample of the current block based on the prediction sample,

wherein when the number of the merge candidates included in the merge candidate list is less than a threshold, a motion information candidate included in a motion information candidate list is added to the merge candidate list as a merge candidate,

wherein the motion information candidate included in the motion information candidate list is derived based on motion information of a spatial block that is included in the same slice as the current block, and

wherein after adding the motion information candidate to the merge candidate list, an average merge candidate generated by using two merge candidates included in the merge candidate list is added to the merge candidate list.

7 . A method of transmitting compressed video data, the method comprising:

obtaining the compressed video data; and

transmitting the compressed video data,

wherein obtaining the compressed video data comprises:

deriving one or more merge candidates of a current block, the one or more merge candidates comprising at least one of a spatial merge candidate and a temporal merge candidate;

generating a merge candidate list by adding the merge candidates to the merge candidate list;

obtaining motion information of the current block based on the merge candidate list;

obtaining a prediction sample of the current block based on the motion information; and

obtaining a residual sample of the current block based on the prediction sample,

wherein when the number of the merge candidates included in the merge candidate list is less than a threshold, a motion information candidate included in a motion information candidate list is added to the merge candidate list as a merge candidate,

wherein the motion information candidate included in the motion information candidate list is derived based on motion information of a spatial block that is included in the same slice as the current block, and

wherein after adding the motion information candidate to the merge candidate list, an average merge candidate generated by using two merge candidates included in the merge candidate list is added to the merge candidate list.

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