Patent ID: 7805680

Claim:
An apparatus comprising a processor for execution of stored instructions, the execution of which causes the apparatus to: facilitate display of image data comprising a plurality of pixels; and process said image data, wherein, for each of the plural pixels, said image data comprises at least first and second portions of image data that are linked together, the first portion including payload data and the second portion including metadata, said payload data comprises content for the pixel and said metadata comprises a value selected from a predefined set of values which classifies the pixel independently from the other pixels; facilitate classification of each of the processable pixels individually according to a particular metadata value selected from the predefined set of values; perform operations on individual pixels based on their metadata; and facilitate filtering of the content by obscuring the content of only a plurality of pixels that has a metadata value that exceeds a discretionary threshold value without preventing display of the content of the remaining plurality of pixels that does not have a metadata value that exceeds the discretionary threshold value.