METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECOUPLING FRAME NUMBER AND/OR PICTURE ORDER COUNT (POC) FOR MULTI-VIEW VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC H04N13/02 H04N7/26 

FIELD: information technology.

SUBSTANCE: method for encoding at least one picture corresponding to at least one of at least two views of multi-view video content to form a resultant bitstream, wherein in the resultant bitstream at least one of coding order information and output order information for the at least one picture is decoupled from the at least one view to which the at least one picture corresponds.

EFFECT: possibility to manage the list of reference images for coding of multi-view sequences.

68 cl, 25 dwg