Patent ID: 8855199

Claim:
A method comprising: encoding a first scalability unit of a first view component based at least in part on a first picture of a first view into a bitstream; predicting a second scalability unit of the first view component from the first scalability unit of the first view component; encoding the second scalability unit of the first view component into the bitstream; encoding a second view component based at least in part on a first picture of a second view into the bitstream; predicting a first scalability unit of the second view component from the first scalability unit of the first view component; and encoding the first scalability unit of the second view component into the bitstream; wherein the first scalability unit of the first view component is of different spatial resolution than the first scalability unit of the second view component and the second scalability unit of the first view component is of different spatial resolution than the second scalability unit of the second view component.