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US 6,314,452 B1Granted
System and method for transmitting a digital image over a communication network
AssigneeRTImage, Ltd.
InventorsShai Dekel, Alexander Ovsiankin
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AssigneeRTImage, Ltd.
InventorsShai Dekel, Alexander Ovsiankin
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The imaging system that is described below is an image streaming system which is different from traditional compression systems. It eliminates the necessity to store a compressed version of the original image, by streaming ROI data using the original stored image. The imaging system of the present invention also avoids the computationally intensive task of compression of the full image. Instead, once a user wishes to interact with a remote image, the imaging server performs a fast preprocessing step in near real time after which it can respond to any ROI requests also in near real time. When a ROI request arrives at the server, a sophisticated progressive image encoding algorithm is performed, but not for the full image. Instead, the encoding algorithm is performed only for the ROI. Since the size of the ROI is bounded by the size and resolution of the viewing device at the client and not by the size of the image, only a small portion of the full progressive coding computation is performed for a local area of the original image. This local property is also true for the client. The client computer performs decoding and rendering only for ROI and not the full image. This real time streaming or Pixels-On-Demand™ architecture requires different approaches even to old ideas. For example, similarly to some prior art, the present imaging system is based on wavelets. But while in other systems wavelet bases are selected according to their coding abilities, the choice of wavelet bases in the present imaging system depends more on their ability to perform well in the real time framework. The system of the present invention supports several modes of progressive transmission: by resolution, by accuracy and by spatial order.
A system for transmitting a digital image over a communication network, comprising:
A system for transmitting a digital image over a communication network, comprising:
A system for transmitting a digital image over a communication network, comprising:
A server computer for transmitting a digital image to a client computer over a communication network, the server computer being coupled to an image storage device for storing an original digital image at an original resolution, wherein the client computer generates at least one request for interaction with the original digital image and at least one subsequent request, each identifying a region of interest at a selected resolution within the original digital image, the server computer comprising:
A server computer for transmitting a digital image to a client computer over a communication network, the server computer being coupled to an image storage device for storing an original digital image, wherein the client computer generates at least one request, each request identifying a region of interest within the original digital image, the server computer comprising:
A method for transmitting a digital image from an image storage device to a client computer over a communication network, comprising the steps of:
A method for transmitting a digital image to a client computer over a communication network, comprising the steps of:
A computer-readable media for a server computer, programmed to cause the server computer to transmit a digital image to a client computer over a communication network, the server computer being coupled to an image storage device for storing an original digital image at an original resolution, wherein the client computer generates at least one request for interaction with the original digital image and at least one subsequent request, each identifying a region of interest at a selected resolution within the original digital image, the computer-readable media programmed to performed the steps of:
A computer-readable media for a server computer, programmed to cause the server computer to transmit a digital image to a client computer over a communication network, the server computer being coupled to an image storage device for storing an original digital image, wherein the client computer generates at least one request, each request identifying a region of interest within the original digital image, the computer-readable media programmed to perform the steps of:
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