Patent ID: 9716897
Date: 2017-07-25
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. A three-dimensional (3D) video encoder comprising: circuitry to generate a flag associated with a block of a depth view of multiview video, the flag to indicate the block of the depth view is encoded based on inherited prediction parameters associated with a block of a texture view of the multiview video, wherein the depth view and the texture view are of a same view, the block of the depth view and the block of the texture view are co-located, and the prediction parameters comprise at least a motion vector and a reference index; circuitry to encode the flag and the prediction parameters into a bitstream representing 3D video, wherein the block of the texture view comprises video information for rendering a picture including luminance and chroma samples and the block of the depth view comprises information corresponding to the block of the texture view for forming 3D video comprising depth values on a per-pixel basis; circuitry to determine a mode decision for the block of the depth view based on a set of best prediction parameters from locally derived prediction parameters or the inherited prediction parameters; and circuitry to generate at least one locally derived prediction parameter for the block of the depth view, wherein the circuitry to encode is further to encode the at least one locally derived prediction parameter into the bitstream.