Patent ID: 8184069

Claim:
A method for transmitting data, comprising: receiving information indicating an image of interest associated with a head-mounted display device, wherein the image of interest is within a field of view of the head-mounted display device; receiving prioritization instructions indicating a priority of contents of the image of interest; based on the information indicating the image of interest and the prioritization instructions, determining an order of transmission of data associated with the image of interest; sending data associated with the image of interest in the determined order such that data that pertains to the image of interest having a first priority is sent in a first time frame slot followed by data that pertains to the image of interest having a second priority in a second time frame slot, wherein the first priority is higher than the second priority; progressively sending in the determined order additional data that pertains to the image of interest in subsequent time frame slots until completion of transmission of data associated with the image of interest or until receipt of another request for data from the head-mounted display device; and maintaining a substantially constant data transmission rate by controlling time allocated to encoding data for each time frame slot.