Patent ID: 6903762

Claim:
A method for customizing a digital camera for at least two particular users of such digital camera by storing at least one firmware component in a programmable memory of the digital camera which controls the operation of the digital camera, the method comprising the steps of: (a) providing customization software executed external to the digital camera which can access a plurality of firmware components providing different camera features; (b) a first user selecting a first desired camera feature and a second user selecting a second desired camera feature which is different from the first desired camera feature, to cause the customization software to access the corresponding firmware component(s) for the first and second desired camera features, respectively; (c) providing the selected corresponding firmware component(s) to the digital camera to enable the first desired camera feature and to disable the second desired camera feature when the digital camera is used by the first user, and to enable the second desired camera feature and to disable the first desired camera feature when the digital camera is used by the second user, and programming the programmable memory of the digital camera to store the corresponding firmware component(s) to thereby customize the digital camera.