Suppose I already have a product that is useable within the available bandwidth. Why should I be interested in foveated imaging?
There are several possibilities. First, you might want to provide the user with the option of increasing frame rate without sacrificing resolution in the regions of interest. For example, if you are running at 10 frames per second at a given bandwidth, foveation might increase your framerate to 30 frames per second at the same bandwidth. Many users prefer foveated video sequences with higher framerates over non-foveated video sequences with lower framerates, and a video application could easily allow the user to switch between foveated and non-foveated modes at the user’s discretion. Second, you might want to increase the performance and options of the current product by allowing higher resolution images to be viewed. For example, it might be desirable to step up to a higher resolution camera. When run in the non-foveation mode the camera images could be transmitted at the resolution of the original camera (i.e., the system would behave exactly as before). However, in the foveation mod
