US 12,425,628 B2
Inter-prediction candidate index coding
Minhua Zhou, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US)
Filed by Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US)
Filed on Jun. 17, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/745,142.
Application 18/745,142 is a continuation of application No. 18/120,608, filed on Mar. 13, 2023, granted, now 12,022,102.
Application 18/120,608 is a continuation of application No. 17/243,638, filed on Apr. 29, 2021, granted, now 11,606,573, issued on Mar. 14, 2023.
Application 17/243,638 is a continuation of application No. 16/839,284, filed on Apr. 3, 2020, granted, now 11,025,941, issued on Jun. 1, 2021.
Application 16/839,284 is a continuation of application No. 16/384,750, filed on Apr. 15, 2019, granted, now 10,638,149, issued on Apr. 28, 2020.
Application 16/384,750 is a continuation of application No. 15/864,952, filed on Jan. 8, 2018, granted, now 10,264,275, issued on Apr. 16, 2019.
Application 15/864,952 is a continuation of application No. 13/523,772, filed on Jun. 14, 2012, granted, now 9,866,859, issued on Jan. 9, 2018.
Application 13/523,772 is a continuation in part of application No. 13/421,519, filed on Mar. 15, 2012, abandoned.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/504,404, filed on Jul. 5, 2011.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/501,441, filed on Jun. 27, 2011.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/496,934, filed on Jun. 14, 2011.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/452,715, filed on Mar. 15, 2011.
Prior Publication US 2024/0340435 A1, Oct. 10, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04N 19/00 (2014.01); H04N 19/109 (2014.01); H04N 19/463 (2014.01); H04N 19/50 (2014.01); H04N 19/176 (2014.01); H04N 19/625 (2014.01)
CPC H04N 19/463 (2014.11) [H04N 19/109 (2014.11); H04N 19/50 (2014.11); H04N 19/176 (2014.11); H04N 19/625 (2014.11)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
a receiver configurable to receive a bit stream including a coded representation of a picture; and
a decoder coupled to the receiver and configurable to:
decode a syntax element from the bit stream;
determine, based on the syntax element, a maximum allowed number of merge candidates for a merge candidate list for all coding blocks in a slice region in the picture;
decode, from the bit stream, a merge candidate index for a coding block in the slice region, wherein one less than the maximum allowed number of merge candidates is used as a maximum codeword size for truncated unary decoding of the merge candidate index; and
construct the merge candidate list for the coding block,
wherein the merge candidate list includes the maximum allowed number of merge candidates.