US Patent 11523104 Methods for constructing a merge candidate list

The present disclosure provides systems and methods for constructing a merge candidate list used for video processing. One exemplary method includes: inserting a set of spatial merge candidates to a merge candidate list of a coding block, wherein the set of spatial merge candidates are inserted according to an order of: top neighboring block, left neighboring block, top neighboring block, left neighboring block and above-left neighboring block. The method can further include adding to the merge candidate list at least one of: a temporal merge candidate from collocated coding units, a history-based motion vector predictor (HMVP) from a First-In, First-Out (FIFO) table, a pairwise average candidate, or a zero motion vector.