Patent ID: 7782950

Claim:
A method for decoding multi-view video data in a multi-view video stream with a decoding apparatus, the method 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 from the multi-view video stream, 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; 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 using the view number information and the view identification information according to the type information; determining, with the decoding apparatus, a prediction value of a macroblock in the random access picture based on the initialized 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.