A system and method of transmitting an image adapted to a first display
area size, such as a standard computer screen having a particular
pixel-by-pixel resolution, to an apparatus having a smaller second display
area size by scaling the image through coefficient cropping its frequency
domain representation. When the cropped frequency coefficients are used to
display an image within the second smaller display area, a scaled version
of the image is displayed. In a specific embodiment, frequency domain
coefficients are cropped such that a region of interest of the image is
scaled down less than the remainder of the image when displayed in the
second smaller display area. Scaling in this manner provides the user with
a readable region of interest with the remainder of the image scaled down
so as to facilitate easy image navigation by the user.
