Patent ID: 8330830

Claim:
An imaging evaluation method comprising the steps of: imaging a scene with a camera to provide an image record; storing the image record in a memory that is an internal, removable, or external non-volatile memory; accessing an image record from the non-volatile memory in response to a request in a review mode from an individual user; tracking usage parameters of the accessed image responsive to utilization on the camera by the individual user of the accessed image; calculating an individual-user image value index for the accessed image using the tracked usage parameters, wherein the image value index corresponds to the value the image record has to the individual user; analyzing the accessed image to provide analysis results; modifying the calculated individual-user image value index for the accessed image responsive to the analysis results; after accessing the stored image, determining a supplemental parameter indicating whether a share user control on the camera has been actuated; and modifying the individual-user image value index in response to the supplemental parameter.