Patent ID: 8923692

Claim:
A camera system comprising: (a) a camera that is operable to take and store pictures, and includes: (i) a lens, (ii) an image sensor, (iii) at least one microphone, (iv) a voice recognizer, (v) a controller, (vi) a WIFI interface, and (vii) a touch sensitive display; (b) the controller including a control program having instructions to control and respond to the voice recognizer; (c) the voice recognizer coupled to, and configured to receive and process sounds transduced by, the at least one microphone to recognize human spoken words as words associated with a specified command to be performed by the controller; (d) the controller configured to: (i) cause the camera to perform the specific command associated with the spoken word recognized by the voice recognizer; (ii) cause the system to take a plurality of pictures by collecting data from the image sensor and storing the pictures in a local memory of the camera; and (iii) automatically upload pictures stored in the local memory of the camera via the WIFI interface to a location at an internet picture hosting website as instructed by a user of the camera, but only if defined predetermined conditions are met, the predetermined conditions including at least the controller receiving: (1) an indication from the WIFI interface that the system can make an internet connection via the WIFI interface; and (2) an indication that some of the pictures stored in local memory are designated by a user to be uploaded to the internet picture hosting website.