Patent ID: 7027659

Claim:
A method for generating a video image of an object comprising the steps of: generating video data representing video frames for forming the video image of said object; processing said video data by: dividing each video frame into a plurality of regions, each region being representative of a portion of said object, at least one of said plurality of regions being predetermined at least one of said plurality of regions and the other of said plurality of regions being remaining ones of said plurality of regions; selecting said predetermined at least one of said plurality of regions of the video frame; de-emphasising said remaining ones of the plurality of regions of the video frame; transmitting video data indicative of said selected at least predetermined one and said remaining ones of the plurality of regions of said video frames to a receiver having a display for displaying said display video image; and recombining said regions of each of said video frames to form a display video, said recombining step comprising forming a display video image in which the selected region of the video frame is sharp or well-defined, and remaining ones of the plurality of regions of the video frame are de-emphasised or blurred in accordance with the relative distance between the portion of said object in a remaining one of the plurality of regions respective region of said object and a reference point.