| CPC H04N 19/119 (2014.11) [H04N 19/176 (2014.11); H04N 19/96 (2014.11)] | 16 Claims |

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1. A method, comprising:
decoding a value indicating a maximum allowed depth of a tree structure, wherein said maximum allowed depth is bounded by twice the difference of a first value and a second value, said first value indicating a size of a largest allowed coding block, and said second value indicating a minimum allowed coding block size; and
partitioning a node representing said largest allowed coding block or a partition of said largest allowed coding block, by said tree structure into coding blocks, wherein said tree structure uses a quadtree followed by at least one of horizontal binary splitting, vertical binary splitting, horizontal ternary splitting, and vertical ternary splitting.
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