Patent ID: 7817866
Filing Date: 2010-10-19
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for decoding multi-view video data in a multi-view video data stream, with a decoder, the method comprising: obtaining, with a Network Abstraction Layer parsing unit, inter-view prediction structure information of a random access picture and a non-random access picture from a sequence area in the multi-view video data stream, the inter-view prediction structure information including number information and view identification information, the number information indicating a total number of views in the multi-view video data, and the view identification information providing a view identifier of each reference view in the multi-view video data as two dimension structure; obtaining, with the Network Abstraction Layer parsing unit, a random access flag for inter-view prediction, the random access flag indicating whether a type of a current picture represents the random access picture or the non-random access picture, all slices in the random access picture referring only to slices having a same temporal position and being in a different view of the multi-view video data, the non-random access picture representing a picture other than the random access picture; determining, with a decoded picture buffer unit, a reference picture list of a current slice in the current picture for inter-view prediction using the inter-view prediction structure information of the non-random access picture, when the current picture corresponds to the non-random access picture based on the random access flag; determining, with an inter-prediction unit, a prediction value of a macroblock in the current slice based on the determined reference picture list for inter-view prediction; and decoding the macroblock in the current slice using the prediction value, wherein the decoder includes the Network Abstraction Layer parsing unit, the decoded picture buffer unit, and the inter-prediction unit.