Abstract:
An apparatus for decoding frames of a compressed video data stream having at least one frame divided into partitions, includes a memory and a processor configured to execute instructions stored in the memory to read partition data information indicative of a partition location for at least one of the partitions, decode a first partition of the partitions that includes a first sequence of blocks, decode a second partition of the partitions that includes a second sequence of blocks identified from the partition data information using decoded information of the first partition.
Abstract:
A current block and a reference frame used to compress the current block are selected from a bitstream. The reference frame has an alternate reference block created by obtaining a preliminary alternate reference block for the current block, obtaining a predictor block that is generated based on a frame other than the current frame, and creating the alternate reference block when the difference between the two predictors is less than a threshold. The alternate reference block is created by using certain blocks from the sequence of frames that are more different from the preliminary alternate reference block than other non-selected blocks. The current block is decoded using the alternate reference block. In this way, a predictor block that is different from a golden frame predictor is made available when an existing alternate reference block is too similar to the golden frame predictor to be useful.