Mountable memory card and method for communicating, controlling, accessing and/or using the same

A memory-card control method, comprising:

• controlling a memory card, wherein the memory card comprises:
• a wire communication means freely mountable onto an external apparatus and freely dismountable from said external apparatus, a memory for storing external apparatus data received from said external apparatus through said wire communication means, a wireless communication means for carrying out communications with an external wireless apparatus through a wireless transmission line, and an address storage means for storing an address indicating a most recently accessed location in said memory, and wherein controlling said memory card comprises:
• accessing said memory by way of the wire communication means and said wireless communication means;
• controlling wireless communications operations carried out by the wireless communication means, including allowing the wireless communication means and wire communication means to request an operation to read out data from said memory, and allowing said wire communication means but not said wireless communication means to request an operation to write data into said memory;
• acquiring, from said address storage means employed by said memory card, said address indicating a most recently accessed location in said memory;
• identifying a most recently accessed file based on said acquired address;
• requesting said memory card through and wireless communication means to send data including said identified file to said external wireless apparatus;
• wherein the step of controlling wireless communication operations carried out by the wireless communication means includes controlling operations to access the memory in accordance with the state of connection of the wireless communication means;
• wherein the external apparatus is an image pick-up apparatus for taking an image;
• the memory card is connected to the image pick-up apparatus through the wire communication means;
• the step of controlling operations to access the memory includes storing an image taken by the image pick-up apparatus in the memory by way of the wire communication means;
• and
• in the step of controlling wireless communication operations carried out by the wireless communication means, when a request for a desired image stored in the memory is received from an external wireless apparatus through the wireless communication means, in response to the request, data of the image is read out from the memory and transferred to the external wireless apparatus making the request by way of the wireless communication means.

A non-transitory computer program readable by a computer, said program being executable by said computer to execute an access control method, said method comprising:

• controlling a memory card, wherein said memory card comprises:
• a wire communication means freely mountable onto an external apparatus and freely dismountable from the external apparatus, a memory for storing external apparatus data received from said external apparatus through said wire communication means, a wireless communication means for carrying out communications with an external wireless apparatus through a wireless transmission line, and an address storage means for storing an address indicating a most recently accessed location in said memory and accessible from said external wireless apparatus through said wireless communication means, and wherein controlling the memory card comprises:
• accessing the memory by way of said wire communication means and said wireless communication means,
• controlling wireless communications operations carried out by the wireless communication means, including allowing the wireless communication means and wire communication means to request an operation to read out data from said memory, and allowing said wire communication means but not said wireless communication means to request an operation to write data into said memory;
• acquiring, from said address storage means in said memory card, said address indicating a most recently accessed location in said memory;
• identifying a most recently accessed file based on the acquired address;
• and
• requesting the memory card through the communication means to send data composing the identified file to the external wireless apparatus;
• wherein the step of controlling wireless communication operations carried out by the wireless communication means includes controlling operations to access the memory in accordance with the state of connection of the wireless communication means;
• wherein the external apparatus is an image pick-up apparatus for taking an image;
• the memory card is connected to the image pick-up apparatus through the wire communication means;
• the step of controlling operations to access the memory includes storing an image taken by the image pick-up apparatus in the memory by way of the wire communication means;
• and
• in the step of controlling wireless communication operations carried out by the wireless communication means, when a request for a desired image stored in the memory is received from an external wireless apparatus through the wireless communication means, in response to the request, data of the image is read out from the memory and transferred to the external wireless apparatus making the request by way of the wireless communication means.

A non-transitory computer program readable by a computer, the program being executable by the computer to execute memory-card control method, the method comprising:

• controlling a memory card, wherein said memory card comprises:
• a wire communication means freely mountable onto an external apparatus and freely dismountable from the external apparatus, a memory for storing external apparatus data received from said external apparatus through said wire communication means, and a wireless communication means for carrying out communications with an external wireless apparatus through a wireless transmission line, and wherein controlling the memory card comprises:
• accessing said memory by way of said wire communication means and said wireless communication means,
• controlling wireless communications operations carried out by the wireless communication means, including allowing the wireless communication means and wire communication means to request an operation to read out data from said memory, and allowing said wire communication means but not said wireless communication means to request an operation to write data into said memory;
• acquiring, from an address storage means employed by said memory card, an address indicating a most recently accessed location in said memory;
• identifying a most recently accessed file based on said acquired address;
• requesting said memory card through said wireless communication means to send data including said identified file to said external wireless apparatus,
• wherein the step of controlling wireless communication operations carried out by the wireless communication means includes controlling operations to access the memory in accordance with the state of connection of the wireless communication means;
• wherein the external apparatus is an image pick-up apparatus for taking an image;
• the memory card is connected to the image pick-up apparatus through the wire communication means;
• the step of controlling operations to access the memory includes storing an image taken by the image pick-up apparatus in the memory by way of the wire communication means;
• and
• in the step of controlling wireless communication operations carried out by the wireless communication means, when a request for a desired image stored in the memory is received from an external wireless apparatus through the wireless communication means, in response to the request, data of the image is read out from the memory and transferred to the external wireless apparatus making the request by way of the wireless communication means.