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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2010
Lazar Bivolarsky, Cupertino, CA (US);
Mattias Nilsson, Sundbyberg, SE;
Renat Vafin, Tallinn, EE;
Soren Vang Andersen, Luxembourg, LU;
Lazar Bivolarsky, Cupertino, CA (US);
Mattias Nilsson, Sundbyberg, SE;
Renat Vafin, Tallinn, EE;
Soren Vang Andersen, Luxembourg, LU;
Skype, Dublin, IE;
Abstract
A method of selecting reference blocks for intra or inter prediction coding of a current block of a video signal. Each reference blocks is selected by: (i) determining a group of candidate blocks comprising at least some candidate blocks other than immediately adjacent spatial neighbors of the current block; and (ii) selecting one of the candidate blocks as the reference block based on a second metric, different from the first metric, the second metric relating to a number of bits that would be required in the encoded bitstream to encode both the residual block and the side information identifying the respective reference block.