Patent ID: 8719309

Claim:
A method for processing readable content stored in a first set of data which contains samples for presenting a presentation that can be viewed from any one of a plurality of views of multiview content, the method comprising: storing the first set of data in a base track; and deriving a plurality of extractor track sets, wherein, each of the plurality of extractor track sets corresponds to one of a plurality of views of the multiview content and the plurality of extractor track sets are stored separately from the multiview content, wherein the multiview content is stored in a file and one of the plurality of extractor track sets includes a second set of data derived from the first set of data, the second set of data containing references to the first set of data for use in identifying first operating point data, for a first operating point of a plurality of operating points within the multiview content, from the first set of data, wherein each of the plurality of operating points correspond to a different view from the plurality of views of a subject of the multiview content and at least one of the different views includes content from a plurality of viewpoints and the identification of the first operating point data is accomplished without examining each piece of data in the first set of data and without examining all of the plurality of extractor track sets.