Patent ID: 8055032

Claim:
A digital camera comprising: a fingerprint input interface for a current user to input the current user's fingerprint; a fingerprint sensor for reading the current user's fingerprint and getting characteristics of the current user's fingerprint; a fingerprint information storage unit for storing predefined characteristics of authorized users' fingerprints and at-least-two-different-level access privilege settings of different authorized users; and a fingerprint identification module for prompting the current user to input the current user's fingerprint using the fingerprint input interface, for an administrator of the digital camera to set authorities of different users according to the users' fingerprints, for authorizing the current user to access operations of the digital camera according to the at-least-two-different-level access privilege settings if the characteristics of the current user's fingerprint match the predefined characteristics of one of the authorized users' fingerprints, and for denying the current user access to operations of the digital camera if the characteristics of the current user's fingerprint do not match the predefined characteristics of one of the authorized users' fingerprints.