User-designated image file identification for a digital camera

A digital camera with user-designated file identification of an image recorded by the digital camera comprising:

• a user interface comprising a data input portion and a display;
• a memory subsystem comprising a computer program and a file system, the computer program implementing user-designated file identification;
• an imaging subsystem that creates images that are stored in the file system;
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• a controller that controls the user interface, the memory subsystem and the imaging subsystem, the controller executing the computer program, the computer program comprising instructions that, when executed by the controller, receive file identification data from a user of the camera at the data input portion of the user interface, encode the received identification data into a filename, associate the filename with a particular image file, and store the filename with the associated image file in the file system of the memory subsystem.

A digital camera with voice-based file identification comprising:

• a user interface comprising a microphone and a voice recognition system;
• a memory subsystem comprising a computer program and a file system;
• an imaging subsystem that creates image files that are stored in the file system;
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• a controller that controls the user interface, the memory subsystem and the imaging subsystem, the controller executing the computer program, the computer program comprising instructions that, when executed by the controller, convert file identification data voiced by a user into the microphone into an audio signal, transform the audio signal into a sequence of alphanumeric characters representing a filename with the voice recognition system, associate the filename with a particular image file, and store the filename with the associated image file in the file system of the memory subsystem.

A method of user-designated file identification of an image recorded with a digital camera comprising:

• entering a file identification into a user interface of the digital camera;
• encoding the entered file identification as a filename;
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• associating the filename with an image file of the digital camera.

A method of voice-based file identification of an image recorded with a digital camera comprising:

• vocally entering a file identification into a user interface of the digital camera;
• transforming the voiced file identification into a sequence of one or more alphanumeric characters using voice recognition, the sequence being the filename;
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• associating the filename with an image file created with the digital camera, the associated filename and image file being stored by the digital camera.