Patent ID: 8611427

Claim:
A video player, comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive a multi-view video signal, the multi-view video signal including a random access picture, the random access picture including a random access slice, the random access slice referencing only a slice corresponding to a same time and a different view of the random access picture, the multi-view video signal being transmitted as a digitally-encoded signal; a digital signal processing unit configured to decode a target video signal from the multi-view video signal, the decoding including, obtain initialization information of an inter-view reference picture list for the random access slice, the initialization information representing view relationships between a plurality of views, the initialization information including view number information and view identification information, the view number information indicating a number of inter-view reference pictures referred for inter-view prediction of the random access picture, the view identification information identifying to which of the plurality of views each of the inter-view reference pictures belongs, initialize the inter-view reference picture list for inter-view prediction, the initializing including assigning an inter-view reference index to each of the inter-view reference picture based on the view number information and the view identification information and appending the inter-view reference pictures to an initialized temporal reference picture list for temporal prediction, the inter-view reference index identifying inter-view reference pictures in the inter-view reference picture list used for inter-view prediction of a block to be decoded in the random access picture, the block to be decoded having a same time with the inter-view reference pictures and a different view from the inter-view reference pictures, obtain modification information for the initialized inter-view reference picture list from the multi-view video signal, the modification information representing how to change the inter-view reference index in the initialized inter-view reference picture list, determine an assignment modification value for changing the inter-view reference index in the initialized inter-view reference picture list according to the modification information, modify the initialized inter-view reference picture list for inter-view prediction, the modifying including reordering the inter-view reference picture by changing the inter-view reference index assigned to the inter-view reference picture based on the determined assignment modification value, determine a prediction value of a macroblock in the random access picture based on the modified inter-view reference picture list, and decode the macroblock using the prediction value, the initialization information being obtained from an extension area of a sequence header, and a D/A converter configured to convert the target video signal into an analog video signal; and a display unit configured to output the analog video signal.