For purposes of illustration, the techniques described in the disclosure are described using examples where there are only two layers. One layer can include a lower level layer or reference layer, and another layer can include a higher level layer or enhancement layer. For example, the reference layer can include a base layer or a temporal reference on an enhancement layer, and the enhancement layer can include an enhanced layer relative to the reference layer. It should be understood that the examples described in this disclosure extend to multiple enhancement layers as well.
Base layer block 2 includes sub-blocks 3A-3H, and enhanced layer block 4 includes sub-blocks 5A-5H. Each of sub-blocks 3A-3H may be co-located with each of sub-blocks 5A-5H, respectively. For example, each of sub-blocks 3A-3H may correspond to a respective one of sub-blocks 5A-5H. In some coders, the motion information from the top left sub-block (e.g., sub-block 3B) may be used to predict the motion information for enhanced layer block 4. However, this sub-block may be less optimal than other sub-blocks in some instances.