APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMAGE TRANSMITTING AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IMAGE REPRODUCTION

摘要

PURPOSE: An image transmission apparatus and a method thereof, and an image reproduction apparatus and a method thereof are provided to offer three-dimensional image service of various types without regard to the display type, by referring to supplementary information related with three-dimensional image format when a depth image and a color image included in the three-dimensional image format are reproduced. CONSTITUTION: An image converter (202) converts a color image and a depth image corresponding to multiple points of time into a three-dimensional video format. A bit stream transmitter (204) transmits bit stream including the converted images and the supplementary information related with the three-dimensional video format. [Reference numerals] (202) Image converter; (203) Image encoder; (204) Bit stream transmitter