Patent ID: 8553761

Claim:
A method comprising: a step of determining a first coding basis, as one of a per-field basis and a per-frame basis, that applies to both an interlaced picture 1 and an interlaced picture 2 both included in an access unit, wherein a view point at which the interlaced picture 1 is captured is different from a view point at which the interlaced picture 2 is captured; a step of determining a second coding basis, as one of a per-top-field basis and a per-bottom-field basis, that applies to both the interlaced picture 1 and the interlaced picture 2 , when the determined first coding basis is the per-field basis; and a step of (i) coding the interlaced picture 1 and the interlaced picture 2 , both included in the access unit, on the determined first coding basis, when the determined first coding basis is the per-frame basis and (ii) coding the interlaced picture 1 and the interlaced picture 2 , both included in the access unit, on the determined second coding basis, when the determined first coding basis is the per-field basis.