Patent ID: 9716920
Date: 2017-07-25
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. A method of signaling information for video data, the method comprising: receiving, for multimedia content, video data for two or more views of a scene; determining horizontal locations of camera perspectives for each of the two or more views, wherein the two or more views includes a first view and a second view, wherein the first view corresponds to a first horizontal location of a first camera perspective and the second view corresponds to a second horizontal location of a second camera perspective; assigning view identifiers to the two or more views based on the relative horizontal locations of the camera perspectives, wherein assigning view identifiers to the two or more views based on the relative horizontal locations of the camera perspective comprises assigning a first view identifier to the first view and a second view identifier to the second view such that the first view identifier assigned to the first view relative to the second view identifier assigned to the second view is indicative of whether the first horizontal location of the first camera perspective corresponding to the first view is to the left of or to the right of the second horizontal location of the second camera perspective corresponding to the second view; forming a representation of the multimedia content, the representation comprising a subset of the two or more views; and sending, as a part of a manifest of the representation of the multimedia content, information indicative of a maximum view identifier and a minimum view identifier for the representation to a client device and ordering information indicative of whether the first view identifier and the second view identifier indicate that the first horizontal location of the first camera perspective corresponding to the first view is to the left of or to the right of the second horizontal location of the second camera perspective corresponding to the second view.