Patent ID: 8923689

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: a video receiver which receives a stream comprising a first-eye image and a second-eye image, corresponding to a frame of a three-dimensional (3D) image, wherein the first-eye image is one of an I frame, a P frame and a B frame, and the second-eye image refers to the first-eye image; a decoding unit which performs a first decoding of the first-eye image and the second-eye image; an encoding unit which encodes the first decoded first-eye image and the first decoded second-eye image; and a controller which controls the encoding unit to encode the first decoded first-eye image into an I frame and to encode the first decoded second-eye image into a P frame that refers to the encoded first-eye image, and controls the decoding unit to perform a second decoding of the encoded first-eye image and the encoded second-eye image—in response to a reverse playing operation of the stream.