Patent ID: 7831102

Claim:
A method for decoding multi-view video data in a multi-view video data stream, with a decoder, the method comprising: obtaining, with a Network Abstraction Layer parsing unit, inter-view prediction structure information of a random access picture from the multi-view video data stream, the inter-view prediction structure information indicating a reference relation between a plurality of views; obtaining, with the Network Abstraction Layer parsing unit, a random access flag for inter-view prediction, when a Network Abstraction Layer unit type represents extension data for the multi-view video data, the random access flag indicating whether a type of a current picture represents the random access picture, all slices in the random access picture referring only to slices having a same temporal position and being in a different view of the multi-view video data; deriving, with an inter-prediction unit, a prediction value of the current picture using the inter-view prediction structure information of the random access picture when the type of the current picture represents the random access picture according to the random access flag; and decoding the current picture using the prediction value, wherein the multi-view video data includes video data of a base view and an ancillary view, the base view indicating a view being decoded independently of other views without using inter-view prediction, and the ancillary view being a view other than the base view, wherein the decoder includes the Network Abstraction Layer parsing unit, and the inter-prediction unit.