Patent ID: 9635342
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. A method, performed in an encoding apparatus, of encoding data pertaining to at least two video views, the method comprising: providing a first picture stream belonging to at least one first video view; performing a first encoding operation to encode at least a portion of a first picture of the first picture stream based on a single-view video codec, wherein the first encoding operation provides encoder state information relating to reference information for predictively encoding at least a portion of a second picture of the first picture stream or of another portion of the first picture of the first picture stream; generating a first video stream comprising the encoded picture of the first picture stream; providing a second picture stream belonging to at least one second video view; performing a second encoding operation to encode at least a portion of a picture of the second picture stream based on the single-view video codec and the encoder state information provided by the first encoding operation; and generating a second video stream comprising the encoded picture of the second picture stream, wherein the first encoding operation and the second encoding operation are performed by a single encoder, wherein the first picture stream and the second picture stream are multiplexed before performing the encoding operations, and wherein the resulting encoded video stream is de-multiplexed for generating the first video stream and the second video stream.