Patent ID: 8756638

Claim:
A method of displaying temporally successive images that constitute a video sequence during spatial navigation in the video sequence in order to pass from a first viewing mode to a second viewing mode over successive images of the video sequence, the video sequence comprising encoded images continuously transmitted from a server to a client machine so as to allow a smooth progressive display of the video sequence on said client machine's side, the client machine decoding the encoded images before displaying, wherein said method comprises the following steps, performed by the client machine, during the navigation between the first and the second viewing mode: sending to the server at least one request for obtaining supplementary data with respect to encoded images to be decoded and displayed according to the second viewing mode, which were received beforehand; while awaiting the reception of a response to said at least one request and before the reception of said response: processing according to the second viewing mode at least one decoded image to be displayed, which was received and decoded beforehand and which precede, in the video sequence, said encoded images to be decoded and displayed, the processing applied modifying the decoded image; and displaying said at least one processed decoded image after the display of an image of current resolution, which has been processed according to the first viewing mode.