摘要 |
<p>In a receiving side, to make it possible to correctly respond to a change in configuration of elementary streams. Stream association information indicating an association between each of the elementary streams (ES) included in a transport stream (TS) is inserted in the ES. The stream association information indicates the association between a first ES containing first image data and a predetermined number of second ESs respectively containing a predetermined number of second image data and/or metadata associated with the first image data. The stream association information indicates the association between each of the ESs, for example, using identifiers for respectively identifying the ESs. For example, a descriptor is inserted in the TS in which the descriptor indicates a correspondence between each of the identifiers of the ESs and each of packet identifiers or component tags of the respective ESs, so that a link between a registration state in a TS layer of each ES and the stream association information is achieved.</p> |