TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, TRANSMISSION METHOD, RECEPTION APPARATUS AND RECEPTION METHOD

摘要

The present invention can well transmit a predetermined number of pieces of high-quality format image data together with basic format image data. The present invention generates a basic video stream obtained by encoding basic format image data and also generates a predetermined number of expanded video streams obtained by encoding the predetermined number of respective pieces of high-quality format image data. A container of a predetermined format containing those video streams is transmitted. The predetermined number of pieces of identification information of the high-quality format to which the predetermined number of respective expanded video streams correspond are inserted into the layers of the video streams and/or the container.