Patent ID: 7912309

Claim:
A method for providing variable video stream resolutions to a multimedia device, comprising: providing a first video stream having a sequence of frames of video data, each frame having an image plane with a predetermined image pixel density wherein the image pixel density comprises an x-dimension of a predetermined number of pixels and a y-dimension of a predetermined number of pixels; detecting a zoom command from the multimedia device, the zoom command comprising an instruction to magnify a portion of the image plane; supplanting the first video stream with a second video stream having a sequence of zoomed frames for the portion of image plane, each zoomed frame having a higher image pixel density than the predetermined pixel density of the first video stream for the portion of the image plane, wherein the higher image pixel density comprises an x-dimension of an increased number of pixels for the portion of the image plane and a y-dimension of an increased number of pixels for the portion of the image plane; and providing the second video stream.