Patent ID: 10080010

Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method of encoding a video data signal for use with a multi-view rendering device, a method of decoding the video data signal, the video data signal, an encoder of the video data signal, a decoder of the video data signal, a computer program product comprising instructions for encoding the video data signal and a computer program product comprising instructions for decoding a video data signal. The method of encoding provides (401) a first image (10) of a scene associated with a first viewpoint, a depth map (20) associated with the first image, metadata (30) for use in depth map processing or rendering one or more views for further viewpoints by the multi-view rendering device, and generates (404) the video data signal. The video data signal comprises video frames partitioned in sub-images comprising a sub-image based on the first image and a depth sub-image based on the depth map, and metadata encoded in a color component of the depth sub-image.