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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2018
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Zhijie Zhao, Munich, DE;
Jens Schneider, Aachen, DE;
Johannes Sauer, Aachen, DE;
Mathias Wien, Aachen, DE;
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Abstract
An apparatus for decoding 3D video data is provided, the 3D video data comprising a plurality of texture frames and a plurality of associated depth maps, the apparatus comprising: a first texture decoder configured to decode a video coding block of a first texture frame associated with a first view; a first depth map decoder configured to decode a video coding block of a first depth map associated with the first texture frame; a depth map filter configured to generate an auxiliary depth map on the basis of the first depth map; a first view synthesis prediction unit configured to generate a predicted video coding block of a view synthesis predicted second texture frame associated with a second view on the basis of the video coding block of the first texture frame and the auxiliary depth map.