US 11,949,862 B2
Method and apparatus for video coding
Shan Liu, San Jose, CA (US); Zhenzhong Chen, Wuhan (CN); Sijia Chen, Shenzhen (CN); and Yiming Li, Wuhan (CN)
Assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed by TENCENT AMERICA LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 14, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/501,837.
Application 17/501,837 is a continuation of application No. 16/879,445, filed on May 20, 2020, granted, now 11,240,499.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/857,162, filed on Jun. 4, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/852,853, filed on May 24, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0038697 A1, Feb. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 19/119 (2014.01); H04N 19/169 (2014.01); H04N 19/192 (2014.01); H04N 19/70 (2014.01); H04N 19/96 (2014.01)
CPC H04N 19/119 (2014.11) [H04N 19/1883 (2014.11); H04N 19/192 (2014.11); H04N 19/70 (2014.11); H04N 19/96 (2014.11)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of video decoding at a video decoder, comprising:
receiving a bitstream including at least one first syntax element associated with a parent coding unit (CU) in a picture, the at least one first syntax element indicating that a direct split mode is enabled for partitioning the parent CU directly into more than 4 child CUs and indicating one of plural predefined child CU templates, each of the plural child CU templates defining a different set of more than 4 child CUs into which the parent CU may be split and at least one of the child CU templates including child CUs having sizes different from each other;
partitioning, at a single partitioning depth, the parent CU directly into a set of more than 4 child CUs defined by the at least one first syntax element; and
reconstructing the parent CU based on the partitioned more than 4 child CUs.