| CPC H04N 19/11 (2014.11) [H04N 19/105 (2014.11); H04N 19/176 (2014.11); H04N 19/593 (2014.11)] | 20 Claims |

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1. A method, comprising:
determining one or more gradients for available reference pixels surrounding a current video block;
determining an intra prediction mode to use for encoding the current video block based on said gradients; and,
encoding the current video block using the determined intra prediction mode, wherein when horizontal and vertical gradients are equal magnitude and same sign the intra prediction mode is 34, and when horizontal and vertical gradients are equal magnitude and opposite sign, the intra prediction mode is 66.
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