Display bandwidth reduction with multiple resolutions

Abstract

A system for reducing bandwidth and/or reducing power consumed by a display may comprise a display having a background plane and a region of interest plane that may be identified by a gaze tracker. The region of interest may be of a higher quality picture. In some embodiments, the display may be a large panel display and in others a head mounted display (HMD).

1 . (canceled) 
     
     
         2 . A computing system comprising:
 a processor; and   a non-transitory memory coupled to the processor, the memory storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the computing system to:
 slice a still picture into a plurality of slices; 
 assign a coordinate to each slice with its location within the still picture; 
 attach the coordinates to their slices as metadata; 
 encode each slice as an I-frame; and 
 stream at least a subset of the I-frames over a connection as a video stream. 
   
     
     
         3 . The computing system of  claim 2 , wherein the metadata for each slice is to include information for conducting zooming on that slice. 
     
     
         4 . The computing system of  claim 2 , wherein the at least a subset of the I-frames is to be streamed in response to a client device request. 
     
     
         5 . The computing system of  claim 2 , wherein to stream at least a subset of the I-frames comprises to stream all I-frames for the still picture. 
     
     
         6 . The computing system of  claim 2 , wherein the still picture is comprised of a plurality of high-resolution images stitched together. 
     
     
         7 . The computing system of  claim 6 , wherein the plurality of high-resolution images includes crowd sourced photos. 
     
     
         8 . An apparatus comprising:
 a non-transitory memory; and   logic communicatively coupled to the memory, the logic implemented at least partly in one or more of configurable logic or fixed-functionality hardware logic, the logic to:
 slice a still picture into a plurality of slices; 
 assign a coordinate to each slice with its location within the still picture; 
 attach the coordinates to their slices as metadata; 
 encode each slice as an I-frame; and 
 stream at least a subset of the I-frames over a connection as a video stream. 
   
     
     
         9 . The apparatus of  claim 8 , wherein the metadata for each slice is to include information for conducting zooming on that slice. 
     
     
         10 . The apparatus of  claim 8 , wherein the at least a subset of the I-frames is to be streamed in response to a client device request. 
     
     
         11 . The apparatus of  claim 8 , wherein to stream at least a subset of the I-frames comprises to stream all I-frames for the still picture. 
     
     
         12 . The apparatus of  claim 8 , wherein the still picture is comprised of a plurality of high-resolution images stitched together. 
     
     
         13 . The apparatus of  claim 12 , wherein the plurality of high-resolution images includes crowd sourced photos. 
     
     
         14 . At least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising a set of instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause a computing system to:
 slice a still picture into a plurality of slices;   assign a coordinate to each slice with its location within the still picture;   attach the coordinates to their slices as metadata;   encode each slice as an I-frame; and   stream at least a subset of the I-frames over a connection as a video stream.   
     
     
         15 . The at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium of  claim 14 , wherein the metadata for each slice is to include information for conducting zooming on that slice. 
     
     
         16 . The at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium of  claim 14 , wherein the at least a subset of the I-frames is to be streamed in response to a client device request. 
     
     
         17 . The at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium of  claim 14 , wherein to stream at least a subset of the I-frames comprises to stream all I-frames for the still picture. 
     
     
         18 . The at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium of  claim 14 , wherein the still picture is comprised of a plurality of high-resolution images stitched together. 
     
     
         19 . The at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium of  claim 18 , wherein the plurality of high-resolution images includes crowd sourced photos. 
     
     
         20 . A method comprising:
 slicing a still picture into a plurality of slices;   assigning a coordinate to each slice with its location within the still picture;   attaching the coordinates to their slices as metadata;   encoding each slice as an I-frame; and   streaming at least a subset of the I-frames over a connection as a video stream.   
     
     
         21 . The method of  claim 20 , wherein the metadata for each slice includes information for conducting zooming on that slice. 
     
     
         22 . The method of  claim 20 , wherein the at least a subset of the I-frames is streamed in response to a client device request. 
     
     
         23 . The method of  claim 20 , wherein streaming at least a subset of the I-frames comprises streaming all I-frames for the still picture. 
     
     
         24 . The method of  claim 20 , wherein the still picture is comprised of a plurality of high-resolution images stitched together. 
     
     
         25 . The method of  claim 24 , wherein the plurality of high-resolution images includes crowd sourced photos.