Patent ID: 8472625

Claim:
A method for video processing, the method comprising: performing by one or more processors and circuits in a video processing system: encrypting a base view video of a compressed three-dimensional (3D) video using an encryption engine; encrypting an enhancement view video of said compressed 3D video using said encryption engine, wherein pictures of one or more coding layers with corresponding coding layer index less than or equal to N layer, where N Layer is a coding layer index threshold and N layer is a positive integer, of said compressed 3D video are encrypted using said encryption engine and pictures of one or more coding layers with corresponding coding layer index greater than N layer of said compressed 3D video are not encrypted; buffering said encrypted base view video and said encrypted enhancement view video into at least one coded data buffer memory; and transporting the buffered said encrypted base view video and said encrypted enhancement view video of the at least one coded data buffer memory to a video decryption engine for decryption and subsequently transporting the decrypted base view and enhancement view videos to a video decoding engine for viewing.