METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING 3D IMAGE DATA STREAM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PLAYING 3D IMAGE DATA STREAM

摘要

A method of generating a 3-dimensional (3D) image data stream includes encoding a first partial image including half of data of a 3D image including a first viewpoint image in full resolution and a second viewpoint image in full resolution; encoding a second partial image including a remaining half of the data of the 3D image; generating streams of the encoded first partial image and the encoded second partial image based on a stream generating method determined from among a first stream generating method that inserts information about the first partial image and information about the second partial image into one stream, and a second stream generating method that inserts the information about the first partial image into a basic layer stream and the information about the second partial image into an enhancement layer stream; and generating an information stream including information indicating the determined stream generating method.

主权项

1. A method of generating a three-dimensional (3D) image data stream, the method comprising:
encoding a first partial image comprising half of data of a 3D image comprising a first viewpoint image in full resolution and a second viewpoint image in full resolution; encoding a second partial image comprising a remaining half of the data of the 3D image, the remaining half of the data not being included in the first partial image; generating streams of the encoded first partial image and the encoded second partial image based on a stream generating method determined from among a first stream generating method that inserts information about the first partial image and information about the second partial image into one stream, and a second stream generating method that inserts the information about the first partial image into a basic layer stream and the information about the second partial image into an enhancement layer stream; and generating an information stream comprising information indicating the determined stream generating method, information indicating whether image data included in a current stream among the generated streams corresponds to the first partial image or the second partial image, and information indicating whether the image data included in the current stream corresponds to the first viewpoint image or the second viewpoint image.