Customizing digital image transfer

A digital camera for capturing digital images and organizing the captured images for subsequent transfer from the digital camera to an external device that utilizes the digital images, comprising:

• (a) an image sensor for capturing images;
• (b) means for storing a plurality of software application program identifiers which identify corresponding software application programs which are resident on the external device;
• (c) a user interface for selecting one of the plurality of software application program identifiers to be associated with at least one captured image;
• and
• (d) storage means for receiving and storing the at least one captured image and the associated software application program identifier.

A digital camera for capturing images and organizing the captured images for subsequent transfer from the digital camera to an external device that utilizes the digital images, comprising:

• (a) an image sensor for capturing a plurality of images;
• (b) storage means for storing the plurality of captured images;
• (c) means for storing an image deletion mode for each stored image which indicates that such stored image is to be deleted from the storage means after such stored image is transferred to the external device;
• and
• (d) a user interface for selecting the image deletion mode for at least one stored image.

A digital camera for capturing digital images and organizing the captured images for subsequent transfer from the digital camera to an external device that utilizes the digital images;

• comprising:
• (a) means for providing a profile table;
• (b) means for customizing the profile table to provide a plurality of customized profiles, wherein each customized profile contains a plurality of image utilization fields;
• (c) means for selecting a customized profile from the customized profile table which corresponds to desired image utilization fields;
• (d) means for defining a plurality of profile indices respectively corresponding to ones of the plurality of customized profiles;
• (e) an image sensor for capturing images;
• (f) means for associating a profile index to at least one captured image to identify the corresponding selected profile;
• and
• (f) storage means for receiving and storing the at least one captured image and the corresponding profile index.

A digital camera for capturing images and organizing the captured images for subsequent transfer from the digital camera to an external device that utilizes the digital images, comprising:

• (a) means for providing a database having a plurality of customized profiles, wherein each customized profile contains a plurality of image utilization fields;
• (b) means for selecting one of the plurality of customized profiles from the database;
• (c) an image sensor for capturing a plurality of images;
• (d) storage means for storing the plurality of captured images;
• and
• (e) a user interface for selecting a user designated code corresponding to the selected customized profile for permitting only authorized access to the selected customized profile.

A method for transferring customized images files stored in a removable memory card of a digital camera to an external device having image transfer application software, using a database having at least one customizable profile containing a set of image utilization fields, comprising the steps of:

• (a) using the image transfer application software to serially transfer a plurality of images files from the removable memory card to the external device;
• (b) accessing the set of image utilization fields;
• (c) modifying each transferred image file in accordance with the set of image utilization fields;
• and
• (d) storing the modified transferred image file in a destination directory in the external device defined by one of the image utilization fields.