Patent ID: 8213781

Claim:
A data processing apparatus for processing coded data, wherein: the coded data includes: coded video data, in access units, obtained by coding video data in predetermined units; and utilization information immediately prior to each of one or more decode startable points in the coded video data in the access units, the utilization information being used in decoding the coded video data, wherein said utilization information includes number information representing the number of the access units, size information representing the size of each of the access units the access units being located between said utilization information and the next utilization information; and the data processing apparatus comprises a processor configured to: search for said utilization information from the coded data; read, on the basis of the size information included in said utilization information, the coded video data in the access units from the coded data, and supply the read data to a video decoder; and repeat, for as many times as the number represented by the number information included in said utilization information, reading of the coded video data in the access units from the coded data based on the size information included in said utilization information and supplying the read data to the video decoder.