Patent ID: 7970221

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, identification information representing the multi-view video data stream including inter-view prediction structure information; obtaining, with the Network Abstraction Layer parsing unit, the inter-view prediction structure information of a random access picture and a non-random access picture from the multi-view video data stream based on the identification information, the inter-view prediction structure information indicating a reference relation between inter-view reference pictures; obtaining, with the Network Abstraction Layer parsing unit, a random access flag from the multi-view video data stream, the random access flag indicating whether a current picture represents the random access picture or the non-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, the non-random access picture representing a picture other than the random access picture; determining, with a decoded picture buffer unit, a reference picture list of a current slice in the current picture for inter-view prediction using the inter-view prediction structure information of the non-random access picture, when the current picture corresponds to the non-random access picture based on the random access flag; determining, with an inter-prediction unit, a prediction value of a macroblock in the current slice based on the determined reference picture list for inter-view prediction; and decoding the macroblock in the current slice using the prediction value, wherein the inter-view reference pictures are identified by decoding order information between pictures, output order information between pictures and view information identifying a view of each picture, wherein the decoder includes the Network Abstraction Layer parsing unit, the decoded picture buffer unit, and the inter-prediction unit.