Patent ID: 8081680

Claim:
A method at least partially implemented by a computing device, the method comprising: selectively employing only objectively efficient inter-layer predictions to generate a layered coded video structure from an input video data sequence; and responsive to receiving a request from an application for an entire set of layers of the layered coded video structure, communicating the entire set of layers of the layered coded video structure to the application for decoding and presentation to a user, the entire set of layers being free of objectively inefficient inter-layer predictions coded in the entire set of layers, wherein an inter-layer prediction is objectively inefficient if an error associated with coding a frame of a first layer of the layered coded video structure with the inter-layer prediction using one or more frames of a second layer is larger than an error associated with coding the frame of the first layer of the layered coded video structure with an intra-layer prediction using one or more frames of the first layer.