Patent ID: 7523481

Claim:
An imaging device, comprising: a camera lens, image sensor and image processing circuit that together record images and output image signal data corresponding to the recorded images; a display and display circuit permitting an operator to preview a scene to be recorded as an image and output as image signal data; an operator's release button that initiates recording of image signal data of the scene previewed by the operator; a microcontroller that is operably connected to the image processing circuit, the display circuit, and the operator's release button; a storage device that stores image signal data; a network adapter that connects to an internet-protocol address corresponding to a destination network device capable of serving files; a batching routine executable by the microcontroller that organizes one or more items of image signal data as batched data; and a password enabling routine executable by the microcontroller, that configures said imaging device to register on a local network via said network adapter, in a first mode providing a password in order to register on a local network and in a second mode registering on a local network without providing a password, wherein the batched data includes image signal data corresponding to previewed image scenes previewed by an operator, the network adapter operates via wireless connection, and the microcontroller transfers the batched data from the storage device of the imaging device to the destination network device at the internet-protocol address via the network adapter.