METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAJOR COLOR INDEX MAP CODING

摘要

A method and apparatus for palette coding of a block of video data using multiple color index scanning orders are disclosed. The system determines a scanning direction for the current block, where the scanning direction is selected from a scan group consisting of at least one non-horizontal scan. If the non-horizontal scan is used, the color indices of the current block are encoded or decoded according to the non-horizontal scan using a palette or a triplet palette. In another embodiment, the system uses a transposed color index map to code the color indices.