Method for deleting data files in an electronic device
The present disclosure relates to a an electronic device such as a digital camera 300 that includes a deletion mode whereby a camera/electronic device user can delete captured images or data files that have already been transferred in order to make room in the electronic device or digital camera memory for capturing further images. In one embodiment a digital camera keep track of which images have already been transferred to an external storage device and presents those to the user as potential images to be deleted. In another embodiment, the user is presented with a “delete all transferred images” which when selected deletes all the captured images that have already been transferred. In still another embodiment, a deletion criteria is used to prioritize which images are deleted first.
1. A method comprising:
waking, from a low-power mode, a processor of an image capture device, and automatically communicating at least one of a plurality of captured images stored in a memory of the image capture device to a remote storage device;
storing, in the image capture device, data indicating which of the plurality of captured images have been communicated to the remote storage device; and
deleting, from the memory, captured images that have been stored and previously transferred to the remote storage device in response to receiving an indication that captured images that have been stored and previously communicated to the remote storage device are to be deleted.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the indication that captured images that have been stored and previously communicated to the remote storage device are to be deleted is received from a user interface at the image capture device.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the indication that captured images that have been stored and previously communicated to the remote storage device are to be deleted is received from a remote device.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein communicating at least one of the plurality of captured images in the memory of the image capture device to the remote storage device comprises establishing a wireless network connection and communicating the captured images over the wireless network connection.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein communicating at least one of the plurality of captured images in the memory of the image capture device to the remote storage device comprises communicating the captured images over a wired network connection to the remote storage device.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein an order in which the captured images previously transferred to the remote storage device are deleted is based on a deletion criterion.
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein all messages previously transferred to the remote storage device are deleted.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein selected messages previously transferred to the remote storage device are deleted.
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the indication that captured images that have been stored and previously communicated to the remote storage device are to be deleted is provided based on an amount of available storage on the image capture device.
10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the indication that captured images that have been stored and previously communicated to the remote storage device are to be deleted is provided if maintaining the at least one captured image on the image capture device would cause an available storage space on the image capture device to drop below a threshold.
11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the waking is performed at various time intervals until a wireless network connection is established between the image capture device and the remote storage device, the various time intervals having longer intervals between some of them than between others of them until the wireless network connection is established.
12. The method of claim 11 , wherein between the communicating of the at least one of the plurality of captured images to the remote storage device and the deleting, from the memory, of captured images that have been stored and previously transferred to the remote storage device, powering down the processor of the image capture device to the low power mode.
13. The method of claim 12 , wherein an order in which the captured images previously transferred to the remote storage device are deleted is based on a deletion criterion.
14. The method of claim 12 , wherein all messages previously transferred to the remote storage device are deleted.
15. The method of claim 12 , wherein selected messages previously transferred to the remote storage device are deleted.
16. The method of claim 12 , wherein the indication that captured images that have been stored and previously communicated to the remote storage device are to be deleted is provided based on an amount of available storage on the image capture device.
17. The method of claim 16 , wherein the indication that captured images that have been stored and previously communicated to the remote storage device are to be deleted is provided if maintaining the at least one captured image on the image capture device would cause an available storage space on the image capture device to drop below a threshold.
18. An image capture device, comprising:
a processor; and
a memory, the memory storing processor-executable instructions, which instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
wake from a low-power mode and automatically communicate at least one of a plurality of captured images stored in the memory of the image capture device to a remote storage device;
store, in the memory, data indicating which of the plurality of captured images have been communicated to the remote storage device; and
delete, from the memory, captured images that have been stored and previously transferred to the remote storage device in response to receiving an indication that captured images that have been stored and previously communicated to the remote storage device are to be deleted.
19. The image capture device of claim 18 , wherein the instructions cause the processor to wake from the low-power mode at various time intervals until a wireless network connection is established between the image capture device and the remote storage device, the various time intervals having longer intervals between some of them than between others of them until the wireless network connection is established.
20. An image capture device, comprising:
a processor; and
a memory, the memory storing processor-executable instructions, which instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute one of a manual transfer mode and an automatic transfer mode, according to a user selection therebetween, the automatic transfer mode comprising:
the processor waking from a low-power mode, and automatically communicating at least one of a plurality of captured images stored in the memory of the image capture device to a remote storage device, storing, in the image capture device, data indicating which of the plurality of captured images have been communicated to the remote storage device, and deleting, from the memory, captured images that have been stored and previously transferred to the remote storage device in response to receiving an indication that captured images that have been stored and previously communicated to the remote storage device are to be deleted, and
the manual transfer mode comprising:
the processor effecting transfer of one or more of the captured images stored in the memory of the image capture device to the remote storage device over a network in response to a user command to effect said transfer.