Patent ID: 8023560

Claim:
An apparatus for processing three-dimensional video, comprising: a storing means for storing video acquired with a predetermining video acquisition device; a three-dimensional video generating means for converting a size and color of video transmitted from the storage; an MPEG-4 control signal generating means for generating a Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)-4 object descriptor and a Binary Format for Scene (BIFS) descriptor; an encoding means for encoding the three-dimensional video control signal and the MPEG-4 control signal inputted from the three-dimensional video generating means and the MPEG-4 control signal generating means, respectively through an MPEG-4 and encoding method, and outputting elementary stream (ES); an MP4 file generating means for generating an MP4 file in conformity to an MPEG-4 system standards by receiving media data of the elementary stream outputted from the encoding means and the MPEG-4 control signal; a packetizing means for extracting three-dimensional video media stream and the MPEG-4 control signal that are stored in the MP4 file generated in the MP4 file generating means, and generating and transmitting the extracted three-dimensional video media stream and the MPEG-4 control signal based on the MPEG-4 system standards; a depacketizing means for receiving the packet stream transmitted from the packetizing means and depacketizing three-dimensional video data including a header and a payload; a decoding means for decoding the data transmitted from the depacketizing means and restoring three-dimensional video; and a display means for displaying the video decoded in the decoding means, wherein the MPEG-4 object descriptor includes information indicating whether the video inputted through the video acquisition device is binocular or multi-viewpoint three-dimensional video, and information indicating the number of viewpoints of the inputted video.