Patent ID: 8542734

Claim:
A multi-view video encoding apparatus comprising: a multi-view video input unit which receives a multi-view video; an I frame location determination unit which designates a location of an I reference frame among I frames included in multi-view frames, which is a basis for encoding the multi-view video, according to characteristics of multi-view frames at an initial time; and an encoding unit which encodes the multi-view video based on the designated location of the I reference frame, wherein the I frame location determination unit and the encoding unit are implemented in a processor, and wherein the I frame location determination unit designates the location of the I reference frame by designating a first I frame, among the I frames at the initial time as the reference I frame and prediction-encoding remaining I frames at the initial time as P reference frames to determine a first compression efficiency, and designates a second I frame, among the I frames at the initial time as the reference I frame and prediction-encoding remaining I frames at the initial time as P reference frames to determine a second compression efficiency, and compares the first compression efficiency and the second compression efficiency in order to determine a highest compression efficiency.