Patent ID: 6094221
Filing Date: 2000-07-25
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A digital camera system comprising:an imaging device for receiving picture data;script memory coupled to the imaging device for storing camera-configuring scripts;an interface coupled to the script memory for enabling the selection of a script feature setting;a script manager, coupled to the interface for interpreting the script and the script feature setting, and includinga command interpreter coupled to the script memory,a programming statement interpreter coupled to the script memory, anda tokenizer for determining when to send an instruction to the command interpreter and when to send an instruction to the programming statement interpreter;a command handler coupled to the script manager for processing the script based on the script feature setting to provide a camera feature;control application memory coupled to the imaging device for controlling the camera features based on camera parameters; andan image processor coupled to the command handler for controlling a processing of the picture data based on the script feature setting.