Patent ID: 8098955

Claim:
An imaging device comprising: an imaging array comprising a plurality of pixels; an interface coupled to receive image data from the imaging array and forward the image data over a data link; a data store containing region selection information for each of a plurality or predefined regions of interest, the region selection information indicating whether each of the predefined regions of interest is enabled or disabled, the regions of interest corresponding to subsets of the pixels of the imaging array; a data selection stage configured to selectively make available to the interface for forwarding over the data link image data corresponding to regions of interest indicated by the region selection information as being enabled, wherein the interface is configured to: receive new region selection information comprising a plurality of flags corresponding to the plurality of predefined regions, each flag indicating whether one of the predefined regions of interest is enabled or disabled, and reset the region selection information according to the new region selection information in response to receiving the new region selection information.