Patent ID: 7019778

Claim:
A method for customizing a graphical user interface of a digital camera for a particular user, comprising: (a) providing customization software executed external to the digital camera which provides a simulation of the graphical user interface of the digital camera on a display device separate from the digital camera, the graphical user interface of the digital camera comprising an image display for displaying a plurality of icons, actuation of a given one of the displayed icons initiating a corresponding function in the digital camera; (b) in response to input from the particular user, modifying the simulation of the graphical user interface to customize the graphical user interface for the particular user, the customization software permitting selection of one of a plurality of different actuatable versions of at least the given icon, the input from the user comprising a selection of a particular one of the different actuatable versions of the given icon for use on the image display of the graphical user interface of the digital camera; (c) configuring firmware to provide the customized graphical user interface; and (d) storing the configured firmware in the digital camera to thereby customize the graphical user interface of the digital camera; wherein the simulation of the graphical user interface on the display device separate from the digital camera comprises a presentation of the selected one of the plurality of different actuatable versions of at least the given icon with one or more additional icons arranged in substantially the same manner as such icons would appear in the customized graphical user interface of the digital camera.