Patent ID: 8041133

Claim:
A computer-readable storage device containing instructions for controlling a computer system to display an image, by a method comprising: receiving, in the following order, a first region of the image in a first resolution, a second region of the image in the first resolution, the first region in an intermediate resolution, the first region in a second resolution, the second region in the intermediate resolution, and the second region in the second resolution, the first region of the image having been identified as a region of interest and the second region of the image being a region other than the first region, a region of interest being an area of the image that a viewer would likely perceive as more important than the other region of the image, the first resolution being a lower resolution than the second resolution, the intermediate resolution being a higher resolution than the first resolution and a lower resolution than the second resolution; and displaying the regions of the image in the resolutions in the order received so that a viewer views the first region before the second region and views the first region in the first resolution before the second resolution.