Patent ID: 8872941

Claim:
An imaging apparatus, comprising: one rigid, head-wearable unit substantially in the shape of eye glasses that includes an acceleration sensor; imaging means for imaging at least one scene in a forward direction in which a user sees to obtain image data of the at least one scene; temporary storage means using a storage area in a ring memory manner for storing continuously the image data obtained by said imaging means; means for executing a selected imaging operation from a plurality of active imaging operations responsive to detecting with the acceleration sensor a tapping pattern corresponding to the selected imaging operation applied by a user to the head-wearable unit; and control means for automatically causing, responsive to at least one predetermined storage condition of a plurality of predetermined storage conditions being satisfied: extraction of selected image data from the image data stored in temporary storage means, storage of the selected image data in semi-permanent storage, and association of metadata with the selected image data, wherein the metadata includes information about the at least one predetermined storage condition that caused the extraction and storage of the selected image data.