Patent ID: 8488680

Claim:
A method, comprising: encoding a video sequence including images in the form of digital samples, the encoding including: producing, by spatially subsampling said video sequence using a multiple-description filter decomposer, a number N of different multiple descriptions of said video sequence, each multiple description including 1/N samples of said video sequence, and producing, by spatially subsampling, an additional subsampled version of said video sequence, said subsampled version having a resolution lower or equal to the resolution of said N multiple descriptions, and producing a scalable video coding (SVC) encoded signal having a base layer and N enhancement layers predicted from said base layer by subjecting said N multiple descriptions and said subsampled version to scalable video coding (SVC), wherein SVC-encoded versions of said subsampled version of said video sequence and said N multiple descriptions of said video sequence constitute the base layer and the enhancement layers, respectively, of the said SVC encoded signal, and said enhancement layers are encoded independent of each other.