3. The method of claim 1 , wherein said one or more neighboring blocks of the current block correspond to a left neighboring block, an above neighboring block, or both the left neighboring block and the above neighboring block of the current block.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein said one or more neighboring blocks of the current block correspond to a left neighboring block, an above neighboring block, or both the left neighboring block and the above neighboring block of the current block. 5. The method of claim 3 , wherein said one or more neighboring blocks of the current block correspond to the left neighboring block, wherein the left neighboring block is considered unavailable if the left neighboring block is in another CTU (coding tree unit) different from a current CTU that contains the current block.