Patent ID: 8948812
Filing Date: 2015-02-03
Classification: H04M,H04N

Abstract:
1. A camera apparatus including a wireless communication device ( 10 ) incorporating computing hardware ( 20 ) coupled to a data memory ( 30 ), to a wireless communication interface ( 50 ) for communicating data from and to the wireless communication device ( 10 ), to a graphical user interface ( 40 ) for receiving user input, and to an optical imaging sensor ( 60 ) for receiving captured image data therefrom, wherein the computing hardware ( 10 ) is operable to execute one or more software applications ( 200 ) for enabling the optical imaging sensor ( 60 ) to capture one or more images, and for storing corresponding image data in the data memory ( 30 ) and/or for communicating the corresponding image data from the wireless communication device ( 10 ) via its wireless communication interface ( 50 ), wherein the wireless communication device ( 10 ) has an elongate external enclosure having a longest dimension (L) defining a direction of a corresponding elongate axis ( 110 ) for the wireless communication device ( 10 ), and wherein: (a) the one or more software applications ( (b) the one or more software applications (