Patent ID: 8311279

Claim:
A method of enhancing image analysis comprising: at a computer system having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs that when executed by the one or more processors cause the computer system to perform the method, the method comprising: displaying an image to a first user; tracking gaze of the first user; collecting initial gaze data for the first user, wherein the initial gaze data includes a plurality of gaze points; identifying, based on the initial gaze data: one or more attended regions, wherein the one or more attended regions include distributions of gaze data above a threshold; and one or more attended image features in the one or more attended regions; identifying one or more ignored regions of the image based on a distribution of the gaze data within the image, wherein ignored regions are regions outside of the one or more attended regions; selecting a respective ignored region of the one or more ignored regions in accordance with the criteria that the respective ignored region includes a respective ignored image feature similar to one or more of the attended image features; and displaying at least a first subset of the image in a manner that draws attention to the respective ignored region that includes the respective ignored image feature.