COMBINED REFERENCE PICTURE LIST CONSTRUCTION FOR VIDEO CODING

摘要

This disclosure relates to techniques for constructing a combined reference picture list, List C, based on List 0 and List 1, used for uni-directional prediction of video blocks in any direction. The techniques include coding one or more syntax elements defined to indicate construction information for List C, and performing reference picture list construction for List C from List 0 and List 1 based on the syntax elements. The one or more syntax elements may indicate that List C is used for uni-directional prediction, and may also indicate a number of reference pictures identified in List C and a reference index of a reference picture for each entry in List C. Each coded video block of a B slice may have an associated syntax element, i.e., inter_pred_idc, to indicate whether the video block is bi-predicted from List 0 and List 1 (Bi) or uni-directional predicted from List C (Pred_LC).