Patent ID: 9565449
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. A method of encoding video data, the method comprising: receiving a texture view component comprising texture data for a temporal instance of a view of video data; receiving a depth view component comprising depth data corresponding to the texture data for the temporal instance of the view of video data; encapsulating the texture view component in a first network abstraction layer (NAL) unit followed by the depth view component in a second NAL unit to form a view component for the temporal instance of the view, such that the texture view component and the depth view component are encapsulated within a common bitstream, and such that the first NAL unit is separated from the second NAL unit in the common bitstream; signaling the view component; signaling, in a five-bit field of a header of the first NAL unit, the five-bit field being associated with a NAL unit type of the first NAL unit, a first indication that the first NAL unit includes the texture data; and signaling, in a five-bit field of a header of the second NAL unit, the five-bit field being associated with a NAL unit type of the second NAL unit, a second indication that the second NAL unit includes the depth data.