Patent ID: 7260261

Claim:
A method for enhanced image adaptation for a display device having a target area T, the method comprising: modeling an image with respect to a plurality of visual attentions to generate a respective set of attention objects for each attention of the visual attentions; assigning a respective attention value to each attention object, the attention value indicating a relative importance of image information represented by the attention object as compared to other ones of the attention objects; indicating a respective weight for each of the visual attentions; for each visual attention, adjusting assigned attention values of corresponding attention objects based on corresponding visual attention weight, the adjusting comprising: normalizing the assigned attention values to a unit interval; and computing adjusted attention values according to: AV i = w k · AV i k , wherein AV i is an adjusted attention value for attention object i derived from a visual attention model k, w k is a weight of the visual attention model k, and AV i k is a normalized attention value of attention object AO i detected for the visual attention model k; for each of one or more image adaptation schemes, determining a respective objective measure of information fidelity (IF) of a region R of the image as a function of a resource constraint of the display device and as a function of a weighted sum of IF of a value of each attention object (AO i ) in the region R; selecting a substantially optimal adaptation scheme from among the one or more image adaptation schemes, each image adaptation scheme ranked as a function of, at least, its determined objective measure of information fidelity IF with respect to the region R; and adapting the image via the substantially optimal adaptation scheme to generate an adapted image as a function of at least the target area T.