Patent ID: 7095442

Claim:
An image capturing device comprising a housing; a computing device disposed in said housing and adapted to perform, inter alia, operations directed by at least one application program unrelated to image capture; an optoelectric transducer disposed in said housing, arranged to accept an optical input via a light transmissive opening through said housing, and to convert said optical input to an electrical signal; an image processor disposed within said housing and electrically coupled to said optoelectric transducer; a memory coupled to said image processor; a user interface further comprising a first electromechanical activator adapted to accept both a user instruction to turn the image capturing device on and to save said electrical signal as a stored image representation and a second electromechanical activator adapted to accept both a user instruction to review said stored image representation and to turn the image capturing device off; and an integral interface connector coupled to said image processor and adapted to be coupled to an external computer without an intervening cable.