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Memory card for providing menu items to a remote wireless-enabled apparatus

  • US 9,569,807 B2
  • Filed: 03/01/2010
  • Issued: 02/14/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A memory card for use in a digital camera, the digital camera having an inbuilt processor incapable of exporting digital data externally of the digital camera, the memory card comprising:

  • a wireless module; and

    a central processor configured to control the inbuilt processor of the digital camera, in accordance with an instruction wirelessly received through the wireless module from a remote wireless-enabled apparatus;

    wherein the central processor is configured to wirelessly send a first index image file through the wireless module to the remote wireless-enabled apparatus for display, the index image file comprising a plurality of menu items, wherein each of the plurality of menu items is a separate image within the index image file,wherein the plurality of menu items includes at least (i) a real-time viewing menu item and (ii) a data viewing menu item, whereby a user of the remote wireless-enabled apparatus can either view, either;

    (a) a real-time image captured by an image sensor of the digital camera, or(b) any image stored on the digital camera, on the remote wireless-enabled apparatus,and wherein, upon selection by a user of one of the plurality of menu items by selecting the corresponding image, the central processor is configured to wirelessly send a second image index file comprising one or more sub-menu items which may be selected by a user to perform a function on the digital camera, each sub-menu item being a separate image within the second index image file, and having a unique image identifier which is recognized by the processor in the memory card and used to control the digital camera upon selection by the user of the corresponding image from the second image index file.

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