Wireless image transfer from a digital still video camera to a networked computer

Claim 1

A portable image transfer system comprising: a digital still camera, at a remote station, which captures images in digital form and stores the images in a camera memory; a cellular telephone transmitter; a central processing unit (CPU) coupled to the camera memory and the cellular telephone transmitter, wherein the CPU controls the camera memory to cause it to output data representing an image and the CPU controls the cellular telephone transmitter to cause a cellular telephone to transmit the data output from the camera memory; a receiving station coupled to the cellular telephone transmitter by a cellular network to receive image data; means, at the receiving station, for image processing; means for resetting the camera memory to be reused for subsequent images once an image is transmitted to the receiving station; a return link for sending commands from the receiving station to the CPU, wherein the commands are directions for obtaining further images as needed by the means for image processing; and an image storage device coupled to the receiving station to store images received by the receiving station.