Patent ID: 9743110
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. A method for 3D (three-dimensional) or multi-view video encoding or decoding, the method comprising: receiving input data associated with a current block for texture data in a dependent view, or for depth data in the dependent view or a base view; determining an extra-candidate-number associated with one or more extra Merge candidates for the current block according to one or more 3D enabling flags comprising a VSP (view synthesis prediction) flag, wherein the VSP flag indicates whether view synthesis prediction is enabled for the current block; determining a modified list size for a 3D Merge list corresponding to a sum of the extra-candidate-number and an original list size, wherein the original list size corresponds to a base-view list size for a base-view Merge list, a default size or a transmitted size; deriving the 3D Merge list with the modified list size based on original Merge candidates used to derive the base-view Merge list for video data in a base view and one or more 3D Merge candidates as enabled by said one or more 3D enabling flags according to a priority order; and encoding or decoding the current block using a Merge mode based on the 3D Merge list.