Patent ID: 8565303

Claim:
A method for decoding multi-view data in a multi-view video stream with a decoding apparatus, the method comprising: receiving, with the decoding apparatus, the multi-view video stream, the multi-view video stream 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; obtaining, with the decoding apparatus, identification information representing the multi-view video stream, the multi-view video stream including initialization information of a reference picture list for inter-view prediction of the random access slice; obtaining, with the decoding apparatus, the initialization information based on identification information, the initialization information including view number information and view identification information, the view number information indicating a number of reference views of the random access picture, the view identification information providing a view identifier of each reference view for the random access picture; initializing, with the decoding apparatus, the reference picture list for inter-view prediction of the random access slice, the initializing including assigning an inter-view reference index to a reference picture in the reference picture list using the view number information and the view identification information; obtaining, with the decoding apparatus, modification information for the initialized reference picture list from the multi-view video stream, the modification information indicating that reference pictures in the initialized reference picture list are reordered; obtaining, with the decoding apparatus, a view information difference from the multi-view video stream based on modification information, the view information difference representing a difference between inter-view reference indices assigned to reference pictures included in the initialized reference picture list; determining, with the decoding apparatus, an assignment modification value for changing the inter-view reference index in the initialized reference picture list according to the view information difference; modifying, with the decoding apparatus, the initialized reference picture list for inter-view prediction, the modifying including reordering the reference picture by changing the inter-view reference index assigned to the reference picture based on the determined assignment modification value; determining, with the decoding apparatus, a prediction value of macroblock in the random access picture based on the modified reference picture list; and decoding, with the decoding apparatus, the macroblock using the prediction value, wherein the initialization information is obtained based on a value indicating decoding order between the plurality of views.