METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECODING METADATA USED FOR PLAYING STEREOSCOPIC CONTENTS

摘要

Provided are metadata that is newly required to transmit contents containing stereoscopic images and motion pictures that are captured by a stereo camera or a computer graphic/animation making program or reproduce the contents after storing the same. The metadata is defined such that the metadata is contained in a structure of an MPEG-4 initial object descriptor, an object descriptor, and an ES-descriptor. The contents containing the stereoscopic images and motion pictures can be transferred based on MPEG-4 systems. In addition, the contents can be stored based on an MP-4 file and effectively reproduced.