Patent ID: 7512283

Claim:
A method of transmitting selected regions of interest of digital video data at selected resolutions, comprising the steps of: a) capturing digital video; b) compressing the digital video into a sequence of individual high resolution frames and simultaneously extracting from the compressed high resolution frames a lower resolution representation of each of the individual high resolution frames; c) storing the individual high resolution frames in a storage device; d) creating a video sequence of the lower resolution representation of each of the stored individual high resolution frames; e) transmitting the video sequence of the lower resolution representation of each of the stored individual high resolution frames to a user; f) creating one or more video sequences of selected regions of interest at selected resolutions greater than the resolution of the video sequence of the lower resolution representation; g) transmitting one or more video sequences of selected regions of interest at selected resolutions; and h) repeating steps (f) and (g) at incrementally increased resolutions until a desired resolution of the selected region of interest is reached according to a viewing objective.