Patent Document ID: 20060222079
Application ID: 11392817
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A scalable multi-view image encoding method comprising: filtering M images on a spatial axis, which are input from M cameras, using at least one of spatial motion compensated temporal filtering (MCTF) and hierarchical B-pictures and generating a spatial low-frequency image and (M−1) spatial high-frequency images; filtering N spatial low-frequency images generated for an N period of time using at least one of temporal MCTF and the hierarchical B-pictures and generating a temporal low-frequency image and (N−1) temporal high-frequency images; scalably encoding the temporal low-frequency image and the (N−1) temporal high-frequency images according to a transmission bit rate allocated to each group of M×N two-dimensional (2D) images; and scalably encoding the (M−1) spatial high-frequency images according to a transmission bit rate allocated to the temporal low-frequency image and the (N−1) temporal high-frequency images.