Appliance and method for menu navigation

A hand-held image capture and communication appliance, comprising:

• capturing means for acquiring image data;
• storage means for saving said image data;
• processing means in communication with said storage means;
• display means in communication with said processing means for exhibiting said image data;
• a navigation means;
• operation activation means;
• and
• program code stored in said storage means and executed by said processing means for manipulating said image data, said program code comprising a menu navigation interface module for allowing a user to select one of a plurality of menu options in response to the invocation of said navigation means, so that the functionality of said navigation means changes from a first set of navigation operating functions to a second set of navigation operating functions which correspond to a plurality of menu functions associated with a selected menu.

A computer readable medium having a program for manipulating image data acquired by a hand-held image capture and communication appliance, said program code comprising:

• logic configured for displaying a plurality of menus, each one of said plurality of menus comprising at least one option displayed on a display, said options corresponding to operations capable of execution by said appliance;
• logic configured for demarcating one of said options, said demarcation representing a user selection of said option;
• logic configured for associating a first set of operating button operating functions with a plurality of operating buttons, such that said first set of operating button operating functions corresponds to a first menu selected from said plurality of menus;
• logic configured for associating a second set of operating button operating functions with said plurality of operating buttons, such that said second set of operating button operating functions corresponds to a second menu selected from said plurality of menus;
• and
• logic configured for processing a user selection of one of said options.