But, what is the cost-benefit ratio of foveated imaging?
Foveated imaging can be very inexpensive both to use and to integrate into existing or coming technology. Our foveated imaging software requires no special hardware, and runs very quickly on a standard PCs using the Windows95/NT OS. The encoder takes as input an image or a video stream and outputs an image or video stream. This output can easily be directed to any other image coding or processing software or hardware. For example, the output images can be directed to a hardware MPEG coder . After transmission, the MPEG stream is decoded and sent to the foveation decoder for display. Because the foveation coder/decoder is all software and is compatible with other forms of video compression, the cost-benefit ratio is quite favorable.
