Patent ID: 8526504

Claim:
A method for decoding multi-view video data in a multi-view video stream with a decoding apparatus, comprising: receiving, with the decoding apparatus, the multi-view video stream, the multi-view video stream including a random access picture, the random access picture including a random access slice, the random access slice referencing only slices corresponding to a same time and a different view of the random access picture; obtaining, with the decoding apparatus, initialization information of a reference picture list for the random access slice from the multi-view video stream, the initialization information representing a reference relation between a plurality of views, the initialization information including view number information and view identification information; obtaining, with the decoding apparatus, type information indicating whether the random access slice is predicted from one reference picture or two reference pictures; initializing, with the decoding apparatus, the reference picture list, the initializing including ordering reference pictures used for inter-view prediction of the random access slice, the reference pictures being specified by the view number information and the view identification information according to the type information, the ordering including assigning an inter-view reference index to each reference picture, the inter-view reference index identifying a reference picture in the reference picture list used for inter-view prediction of a block to be decoded, the block to be decoded having a same time with the reference pictures and a different view from the reference pictures; obtaining, with the decoding apparatus, modification information for the initialized reference picture list from the multi-view video stream, the modification information representing how to change the inter-view reference index in the initialized reference picture list; determining, with the decoding apparatus, an assignment modification value for changing the inter-view reference index in the initialized reference picture list according to the modification information; modifying, with the decoding apparatus, the initialized reference picture list for inter-view prediction, wherein the modifying includes reordering the reference picture by changing the inter-view reference index assigned to the reference picture based on the determined assignment modification value; determining, with the decoding apparatus, a prediction value of a macroblock in the random access picture based on the modified reference picture list; and decoding, with the decoding apparatus, the macroblock using the prediction value, wherein the initialization information is obtained based on a value indicating decoding order between the plurality of views.