Patent ID: 8139929
Filing Date: 2012-03-20
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An encoding method for encoding an image and generating coded sequences and identification information, said method comprising the steps of: encoding a stereoscopic image and generating a coded stereoscopic image that includes a first coded image which is encoded from a right image of the stereoscopic image and a second coded image which is encoded from a left image of the stereoscopic image, encoding a first non-stereoscopic image and generating a coded first non-stereoscopic image which is different from the first coded image and the second coded image, generating a first coded sequence that includes a mixture of i) the coded stereoscopic image, and ii) the coded first non-stereoscopic image, encoding a second non-stereoscopic image and generating a coded second non-stereoscopic image which is different from the first coded image and the second coded image, generating a second coded sequence that includes the coded second non-stereoscopic image, and that does not include any stereoscopic image, generating identification information which indicates whether a coded sequence is the first coded sequence including the mixture of the coded stereoscopic image and the coded first non-stereoscopic image, or the second coded sequence including the coded second non-stereoscopic image without any stereoscopic image, outputting the identification information, the first coded sequence and the second coded sequence.