Digital camera with communications interface for selectively transmitting images over a cellular phone network and a wireless LAN network to a destination
View Patent ↗Digital camera includes an image sensor receiving incident light of a scene, the digital camera captures an image corresponding to the incident light; display displays the plurality of captured images and displays a menu of destinations; at least one user input for selection of at least one image from the plurality of captured images and a destination from the menu of destinations displayed on the display; communications interface transmits the at least one selected image to the selected destination over one of a plurality of networks, the plurality of networks including at least two different types of wireless networks; memory; and processor coupled to the image sensor, the display, the at least one user input, the communications interface, and the memory, the processor controlling the transmission of the at least one selected image to the selected destination using either one of the at least two different types of wireless networks.
1. A digital camera for capturing a plurality of images comprising:
an image sensor for receiving incident light of a scene, the digital camera capturing an image corresponding to the incident light of the scene;
a display for displaying the plurality of captured images and for displaying a menu of destinations;
at least one user input for selection of at least one image from the plurality of captured images and a destination from the menu of destinations displayed on the display;
a communications interface for transmitting the at least one selected image to the selected destination over one of a plurality of networks, the plurality of networks including at least two different types of wireless networks;
a memory; and
a processor coupled to the image sensor, the display, the at least one user input, the communications interface, and the memory, the processor controlling the transmission of the at least one selected image to the selected destination using either one of the at least two different types of wireless networks.
2. The digital camera of claim 1 , wherein the at least two different types of wireless networks include a cellular phone network and a wireless LAN.
3. The digital camera of claim 2 , wherein the image sensor, the display, the at least one user input, and the communications interface are directly coupled to the processor, and the memory is coupled to the processor via a memory interface, and wherein the memory stores first information used by the processor to control the communications interface to enable transmission over the cellular phone network, and stores second information used by the processor to control the communications interface to enable transmission over the wireless LAN.
4. The digital camera of claim 3 , wherein the first information is stored in a first configuration file and the second information is stored in a second configuration file.
5. The digital camera of claim 4 , wherein the first and second configuration files are generated by a separate device, and transferred from the separate device to the memory of the digital camera.
6. The digital camera of claim 5 , wherein the separate device is a computer.
7. The digital camera of claim 1 , wherein the memory is an internal memory.
8. The digital camera of claim 1 , wherein the memory is a removable memory card.
9. The digital camera of claim 3 , wherein the first information includes a phone number associated with the selected destination.
10. The digital camera of claim 3 , wherein the first and second information include account data.
11. A digital camera for capturing a plurality of images comprising:
an image sensor for receiving incident light of a scene, the digital camera capturing an image corresponding to the incident light of the scene;
a display for displaying the plurality of captured images;
at least one user input for selection of at least one image from the plurality of captured images;
a communications interface for transmitting the at least one selected image over one of a plurality of networks, the plurality of networks including a cellular phone network and a wireless LAN;
a processor coupled to the image sensor, the display, the at least one user input, and the communications interface, the processor controlling the transmission of the at least one selected image to a destination;
a memory coupled to the processor for storing first information used by the processor to control the communications interface to transmit to the destination over the cellular phone network when the camera is connected to the cellular phone network, and for storing second information used by the processor to control the communications interface to transmit to the destination over the wireless LAN when the camera is connected to the wireless LAN.
12. The digital camera of claim 11 , wherein the first information is stored in a first configuration file and the second information is stored in a second configuration file.
13. The digital camera of claim 12 , wherein the first and second configuration files are generated by a separate device, and transferred from the separate device to said memory of said digital camera.
14. The digital camera of claim 13 , wherein the separate device is a computer.
15. The digital camera of claim 11 , wherein the memory is an internal memory.
16. The digital camera of claim 11 , wherein the memory is a removable memory card coupled to the processor via a memory card interface, and wherein the image sensor, the display, the at least one user input, and the communications interface are directly coupled to the processor.
17. The digital camera of claim 11 , wherein the first information includes a phone number associated with the destination.
18. The digital camera of claim 11 , wherein the first and second information include account data.