Patent ID: 6999513

Claim:
An apparatus for encoding multi-view video source data, comprising: preprocessing stage, when multi-view video source data is input, for eliminating from the input data a noise and solving an imbalancing problem; disparity prediction stage and motion prediction stage for estimating a disparity vector and a motion vector, respectively, on the basis of a moving picture axis including an I picture; disparity/motion compensation stage for compensating an image predicted by the disparity and the motion estimation stages by using a sub-pixel compensation technique; residual image encoding stage for receiving an original picture from the preprocessing stage and a reconstructed picture provided from the disparity/motion compensation stage and performing a residual image encoding process in order to improve a picture quality and enhance a three-dimensional effect of the picture; bit rate control stage for controlling a bit rate for each frame in a recovered picture encoded by the residual image encoding stage; and entropy encoding stage for generating bit streams for the multi-view moving picture source data according to the bit rates controlled by the bit rate control stage.