def _view_roi(array, original_area_slice, axis):
    """
    Get a view of the current region of interest during iterative padding.

    When padding multiple dimensions iteratively corner values are
    unnecessarily overwritten multiple times. This function reduces the
    working area for the first dimensions so that corners are excluded.

    Parameters
    ----------
    array : ndarray
        The array with the region of interest.
    original_area_slice : tuple of slices
        Denotes the area with original values of the unpadded array.
    axis : int
        The currently padded dimension assuming that `axis` is padded before
        `axis` + 1.

    Returns
    -------
    roi : ndarray
        The region of interest of the original `array`.
    """
    axis += 1
    sl = (slice(None),) * axis + original_area_slice[axis:]
    return array[sl]