Patent ID: 7817865

Claim:
A method for decoding a multi-view video data in a multi-view video data stream, comprising: using a Network Abstraction Layer unit for: obtaining identification information representing the multi-view video data stream including inter-view prediction structure information; obtaining the inter-view prediction structure information from the multi-view video data stream based on the identification information, the inter-view prediction structure information including number information and view identification information, the number information indicating a total number of views in the multi-view video data, and the view identification information providing a view identifier of each reference view in the multi-view video data as two dimension structure; using an inter-view prediction unit for deriving a prediction value of a current picture using the inter-view prediction structure information; and using a decoding unit for decoding the current picture using the prediction value, wherein the multi-view video data includes video data of a base view and an ancillary view, the base view indicating a view being decoded independently of other views without using inter-view prediction, the ancillary view being a view other than the base view.