Patent ID: 7057648

Claim:
An electronic still camera for capturing images that can be transferred to a service provider for storage, the electronic still camera comprising: (a) an image sensor for capturing a plurality of images of scenes and for producing image signals representative of the corresponding scenes; (b) an analog-to-digital converter for digitizing the image signals to produce digital images; (c) a memory for storing a plurality of digital image files corresponding to the digital images; (d) a processor for controlling the transfer of the digital images from the memory and for producing a utilization file; (e) a display coupled to the memory for displaying at least one digital image; and (f) a user interface for scrolling through the plurality of digital images stored in the memory in order to display and select particular digital images to be transferred to the service provider, wherein the utilization file identifies at least one digital image file to be transferred to the service provider and account information utilizable by the service provider in processing the at least one digital image file, and the processor stores the utilization file in the memory separate from the digital image files.