Patent ID: 8810628

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: receiving processing circuitry configured to receive an encoded stream, an image capture type, and image capturing order information, the encoded stream being produced by encoding image data of multi-viewpoint images including images from a first viewpoint and images from a second viewpoint that form a stereoscopic image, the image capture type indicating that the images from the first viewpoint have been captured at different timings than the images from the second viewpoint, the image capturing order information indicating an image capturing order in which the multi-viewpoint images have been captured; decoding processing circuitry configured to decode the encoded stream received by the receiving processing circuitry to generate image data; and control processing circuitry configured to control a display apparatus to display the multi-viewpoint images corresponding to the image data generated by the decoding processing circuitry in the same order as the image capturing order in accordance with the image capture type and image capturing order information received by the receiving processing circuitry.