Patent ID: 8538234

Claim:
A transmission device for transmitting stream data that includes left-view frames and right-view frames of stereoscopic video images and control information, comprising: a control unit operable to set a 3D playback mode in the control information when a user operation or an instruction of an application program causes a device being a transmission destination of the stream data to process a pair of a left-view frame and a right-view frame over one frame period of the stereoscopic video images, the control unit operable to set a 2D playback mode in the control information when a user operation or an instruction of an application program causes the device being the transmission destination to process only a left-view frame or a right-view frame over one frame period of the stereoscopic video images; a format conversion unit operable to convert the stream data into a predetermined transmission format so that a pair of a left-view frame and a right-view frame is transmitted over one frame period of the stereoscopic video images, regardless of whether the control information indicates the 3D playback mode or the 2D playback mode; and a transmission unit operable to transmit the stream data converted in the transmission format.