Patent ID: 7034871

Claim:
An electronic still camera for capturing images to be transferred to at least one e-mail address, the electronic still camera comprising: (a) an image sensor for capturing a plurality of images of scenes and for producing image signals representative of the corresponding scenes; (b) an analog-to-digital converter for digitizing the image signals to produce digital images; (c) a removable memory card for storing a plurality of digital image files corresponding to the digital images; (d) an internal memory for storing at least one digital image to be displayed and a plurality of e-mail addresses; (e) a processor for controlling the transfer of the digital images from the removable memory card to the internal memory and for producing a utilization file; (f) a display coupled to the internal memory for displaying at least one digital image; and (g) a user interface for selecting at least one e-mail address and for scrolling through the plurality of digital images stored on the removable memory card in order to display and select particular digital images to be transferred to the selected at least one e-mail address, wherein the utilization file includes the at least one selected e-mail address and the name of at least one digital image file to be transferred to the at least one selected e-mail address and the processor stores the utilization file on the removable memory card separate from the digital image files.