Patent ID: 9036714
Filing Date: 2015-05-19
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method, executed by a processor, comprising: accessing a video picture that includes multiple pictures combined into a single picture, the video picture being part of a received video stream; accessing information that is part of the received video stream, the accessed information indicating how the multiple pictures in the accessed video picture are combined, wherein the accessed information includes spatial interleaving information and sampling information, wherein the spatial interleaving information indicates spatial interleaving applied to the multiple pictures in forming the single picture and wherein the sampling information indicates one or more parameters related to an upsampling filter for restoring each of the multiple pictures to another resolution, the one or more parameters related to the upsampling filter including an indication of filtering direction, and wherein the spatial interleaving information further includes relationship information, the relationship information indicating a type of relationship that exists between the multiple pictures, the relationship information indicating that the multiple pictures are stereo views of an image, the multiple pictures are not related, the multiple pictures are a 2D image and its related depth map (2D+Z), the multiple pictures are multiple sets of a 2D+Z (MVD), the multiple pictures represent images in a layer depth video format (LDV), or the multiple pictures represent images in two sets of LDV (DES), and the multiple pictures are formatted according to a depth related format; and decoding the video picture to provide a decoded representation of at least one of the multiple pictures.