Patent US 8,559,505

The method includes the steps of obtaining identification information representing multi-view video data stream including initialization information of a reference picture list for a random access slice, obtaining initialization information of a reference picture list for the random access slice based on the identification information, the initialization information representing a reference relation between a plurality of views, initializing the reference picture list using the initialization information, obtaining modification information for the initialized reference picture list from a multi-view video data stream, modifying the initialized reference picture list for inter-view prediction based on the modification information.