Patent ID: 8170108

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 slices having a same time with the random access picture; obtaining, with the decoding apparatus, a random access flag for inter-view prediction from the multi-view video stream, the random access flag indicating whether a type of picture is the random access picture; obtaining, with the decoding apparatus, initialization information of a reference picture list for the random access slice based on the random access flag, the initialization information representing view relationships between a plurality of views, the initialization information including view number information and view identification information for the plurality of views; initializing, with the decoding apparatus, the reference picture list using the view number information and the view identification information; obtaining, with the decoding apparatus, a difference value from the a multi-view video stream, the difference value representing a difference between an inter-view reference index of a current reference picture in the initialized reference picture list and a predicted inter-view reference index, the predicted reference view index representing an inter-view reference index of a reference picture assigned right before; determining, with the decoding apparatus, an assignment modification value for modifying 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 using 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 in the multi-view video stream.