Patent ID: 6868122

Claim:
A method for encoding digital data comprising: accessing a plurality of frames, each frame of the plurality of frames including a digital video image; dividing each frame of said plurality of frames into a plurality of regions, each region of the plurality of regions being assigned a unique consecutive number; encoding all except one region of said plurality of regions in each frame of the plurality of frames into encoded regions using interframe compression; compressing the one region of said plurality of regions in each frame of the plurality of frames without using interframe compression into a compressed region, the one region of the plurality of regions being selected in each frame based on an order of the unique consecutive number, the one region of said plurality of regions being a different region in each frame of the plurality of frames, each region of the plurality of regions being compressed once in the plurality of frames without using interframe compression; and transmitting said encoded regions and said compressed region for each frame of the plurality of frames.