Patent Document ID: 20140355680
Application ID: 14460945
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for image prediction of a multi-view video codec, which encodes multi-view images including a base view and at least one view that is not the base view, the method comprising: partitioning a current image into a plurality of base blocks; predicting the plurality of base blocks by using an image, which has the same view as a view of the current image, but is temporally different, or by using an image, which has a different view from the view of the current image; acquiring a difference between a prediction result of the base block and the base block and then encoding the difference; and generating a bitstream including the encoded difference, wherein the generating of the bitstream comprises of including information associated with the different view used for the prediction of the base block included in the current image in the bitstream in case where the base block included in the current image is predicted by using the image which has the different view from the view of the current image in the predicting of the plurality of base blocks.