Patent ID: 8014621

Claim:
A method of generating three-dimensional (3D) compression data, the method comprising: generating configuration information of a 3D compression data sequence; generating a plurality of pieces of individual 3D compression data to be included in the 3D compression data sequence; and generating the 3D compression data sequence by combining the plurality of pieces of the individual 3D compression data, combining the 3D compression data sequence with the configuration information, and multiplexing the combined result; wherein the generating of each of the plurality of pieces of individual 3D compression data comprises: generating individual configuration information of each of the pieces of individual 3D compression data, the individual configuration information including a header corresponding to the individual 3D compression data and the header including a data type code containing information regarding the data type of the individual 3D compression data, generating a start code according to a data type of the piece of individual 3D compression data, and generating the pieces of individual 3D compression data wherein a type of encoding used to encode each piece of individual 3D compression data corresponds to the data type code of the piece of individual 3D compression data.