Patent ID: 8711203

Claim:
A method in a graphics system for decoding a data stream, wherein the data stream comprises at least first and second segments, the first segment comprising two-dimensional graphics data and the second segment comprising information relating to the two-dimensional graphics data, the method, operable in a processor within the graphics system, comprising: receiving the data stream, comprising a window definition segment, a presentation composition segment and a palette definition segment; forming a first decoded data sequence from the first segment on a first plane, said first decoded data sequence being cropped and positioned on the first plane within a first area in a first window, and a second decoded data sequence from the second segment on a second plane, said second decoded data sequence being cropped and positioned on the second plane within a first area in a second window; color converting said first and second decoded data sequences separately; and outputting, separately, the first color-converted decoded data sequence and the second color-converted decoded data sequence to a display unit for rendering a three-dimensional graphics data by combining the first color-converted decoded data sequence and the second color-converted decoded data sequence, wherein the second segment comprises one of: a depth map and an audio data for the two-dimensional graphics data.