Appliance and method for communicating and viewing multiple captured images

A portable hand-held image capturing appliance, comprising:

• a photoelement array for acquiring image data, said image data comprising at least a first image data and a second image data in an image collection;
• a memory for saving said image data;
• a processor in communication with said memory;
• a display in communication with said processor for exhibiting said image data;
• and
• program code stored in said memory and executed by said processor for viewing said image data, said program code comprising:
• a page view software module for viewing said image data in said image collection on said display of said appliance upon a user request, with a descriptor which sequentially numbers each image data in the image collection, and with a number representing a total number of image data in said image collection;
• and
• an attach page software module for grouping a plurality of said image data into said image collection, wherein said image collection closes before displaying an image not in said image collection, and wherein an animation of pages flipping to first page of said image collection is displayed prior to closing said image collection.

A method for viewing captured images on a display of a portable hand-held appliance, comprising the steps of:

• acquiring at least a first image and a second image with said appliance;
• storing said images in a storage medium of said appliance;
• and
• displaying an animated sequence on said display after ending display of said first image and before displaying said second image, wherein said animated sequence is said first image sliding off said display.

A method for viewing captured images on a display of a portable hand-held appliance, comprising the steps of:

• acquiring a plurality of images with said appliance;
• storing said images in a storage medium of said appliance;
• displaying said images on said display of said appliance upon a user request;
• attaching said plurality of said images into an image collection that can be collectively communicated;
• labeling each of said images in said image collection with a descriptor which sequentially numbers each image in said image collection and which represents a total number of images grouped in said image collection;
• displaying an animated sequence on said display before closing said image collection and displaying a second image not in said image collection, wherein said image collection closes before displaying an image not in said image collection.

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

• logic configured for viewing multiple image data on a display;
• logic configured to keep track of multiple image data stored in a memory;
• logic configured for displaying animation in communicating navigation among multiple image data stored in said memory;
• and
• logic configured for displaying an animated sequence on said display after ending display of a first image and before displaying a second image of said multiple image data, wherein said animated sequence is said first image sliding off said display.