Patent ID: 8432972

Claim:
A method for decoding multi-view video data in a multi-view video stream with a decoding apparatus, 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, initialization information of a reference picture list for the random access slice, the initialization information representing a reference relation for a single direction or a bi-direction between a plurality of views, the initialization information including view number information and view identification information; obtaining, with the decoding apparatus, type information indicating whether the random access slice is predicted from one reference picture or two reference pictures; initializing, with the decoding apparatus, the reference picture list for inter-view prediction according to the type information, the initializing including assigning an inter-view reference index to inter-view reference picture based on the view number information and the view identification information; obtaining, with the decoding apparatus, a difference value from the multi-view video stream according to the type information, the difference value representing a difference between inter-view reference indices 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 difference value; modifying, with the decoding apparatus, the initialized 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; determining, with the decoding apparatus, a prediction value of a 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 from an extension area of a sequence header.