Patent ID: 9167222
Filing Date: 2015-10-20
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of providing a three-dimensional (3D) image performed by a 3D image providing apparatus including at least one processor, the method comprising: obtaining first-viewpoint image data of first-viewpoint images and second-viewpoint image data of second-viewpoint images; producing relation information indicating relation between a pair of a first-viewpoint image and a second-viewpoint image to compose a 3D image; producing time information that represents when the first-viewpoint image data and the second-viewpoint image data, corresponding to the first-viewpoint images and the second-viewpoint images, respectively, are to be processed, and represents, in connection with the relation information, which pair of the first-viewpoint image data and the second-viewpoint image data, among a sequence of pairs of first-viewpoint image data and second-viewpoint image data, corresponds to the pair of the first-viewpoint image and the second-viewpoint image; and transmitting the first-viewpoint image data, the second-viewpoint image data, and the time information, wherein the first-viewpoint image data is transmitted in a first stream and the second-viewpoint image data is transmitted in a second stream, wherein the time information comprises type information which is determined according to whether a time value for processing the first-viewpoint image data and a time value for processing the second-viewpoint image data is same or not, wherein the producing the time information comprises producing time information regarding the first-viewpoint image data and the second-viewpoint image data, according to a first type or a second type, and wherein the first type represents that pieces of time information allocated to a pair of pieces of image data that provide the 3D image have a common value, and the second type represents that pieces of time information allocated to the pair of image data that provides the 3D image have non-common values.