Patent ID: 7728877

Claim:
A method for synthesizing multiview videos, comprising the steps of: acquiring a plurality of multiview videos of a scene with corresponding cameras arranged at a plurality of poses such that there is view overlap between adjacent pairs of cameras; synthesizing a synthesized multiview video from an input video, wherein the input video includes at least one of the multiview videos, and the synthesized multiview video corresponds to single pose different than the input video; maintaining a reference picture list for a picture associated with a particular time instant and a particular one of the plurality of multiview videos, wherein the reference picture list indexes temporal reference pictures and spatial reference pictures of the plurality of acquired multiview videos and the synthesized reference pictures of the synthesized multiview video, and wherein where the temporal reference pictures are associated with a time instant that is different than the particular time instant and the spatial reference pictures are associated with the same particular time instant, and wherein each reference picture is assigned a unique picture order count; and predicting each current frame of the plurality of multiview videos according to reference pictures indexed by the associated reference picture list.