Patent Document ID: 9900620
Application ID: 14432404
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A multi-view image coding method, comprising: identifying at least one motion vector candidate associated with encoding of a current block within a first view image; determining a predictive motion vector used for encoding the current block based on the identified at least one motion vector candidate; and transmitting an index of the determined predictive motion vector to a multi-view image decoding apparatus through a bitstream wherein the identifying of the at least one motion vector candidate comprises: identifying an inter-view candidate vector based on a disparity vector of a co-located block located at a same location as the current block within a frame of a view image encoded prior to the first view image if the disparity vector of the co-located block exists, and identifying the inter-view candidate vector based on a disparity vector of a neighbor block adjacent to the current block if the disparity vector of the co-located block does not exist.