Patent ID: 7015957

Claim:
A method for managing electronic images successively captured when a camera is in an image capture mode, said method comprising: capturing a first plurality of electronic images when said camera is in said image capture mode; filling a memory in said camera to capacity with said first plurality of electronic images; capturing a second plurality of electronic images when said camera is in said image capture mode, following said filling; selectively assigning individual tags to one or more of said electronic images in said memory to define tagged images, which are to be excluded from an automatic first in-first out replacement of electronic images in said memory, and untagged images, which are subject to the automatic first in-first out replacement of electronic images in said memory; during said capturing of said second plurality of electronic images, automatically first in-first out replacing said untagged images in said memory; retaining said tagged images in said memory during said automatically first in-first out replacing, to exclude said tagged images from the automatic first in-first out replacement; downloading together said tagged electronic images and said untagged electronic images in said memory to provide a set of downloaded images external to said camera; and retaining said tags in said downloaded images corresponding to said tagged electronic images.