Memory card and method for storage and wireless transceiving of data

摘要

A memory card is described, the memory card having a wireless transceiver module, a central processor, and a storage module. The memory card when physically and operably engaged in and with a digital camera, is configured to wirelessly transmit digital data to an external device through the wireless transceiver module substantially in real time, and wirelessly receive digital data from the external device through the wireless transceiver module substantially in real time.

主权项

1. A memory card configured to be used in a digital camera having an inbuilt processor incapable of independently exporting digital data externally of the digital camera or independently importing digital data from externally of the digital camera, the memory card comprising:
a wireless transceiver being operably connected to at least one of: a central processor, and a memory storing at least one direct print order format (DPOF) file; and being configured to wirelessly receive the digital data transmitted to the digital camera and to wirelessly transmit the digital data from the digital camera; the central processor being configured to control at least one of: the reception of the digital data by the digital camera, and the transmission of the digital data from the digital camera; the memory being operably connected to the central processor and being configured to store at least one of the digital data captured by the digital camera, and the digital data received by the digital camera; and the memory card is configured to: use a value of a first field of the DPOF file to trigger different types of predefined operations, each predefined operations being associated with a predefined value; wirelessly transmit the digital data captured by the digital camera to at least one external device through the wireless transceiver when the first field of the DPOF file has a value which matches a given predefined value, wherein the digital data captured by the digital camera is stored in the memory substantially at the same time as the digital data captured by the digital camera is being transmitted via the wireless transceiver to the at least one external device, such that the at least one external device can receive the digital data captured by the digital camera substantially in real time to support live streaming; and wirelessly receive digital data from another external device through the wireless transceiver, wherein the storage of that received digital data in the memory and the display of that received digital data on the digital camera both take place substantially in real time to support live streaming; and wherein the central processor is further configured to instruct the inbuilt processor to reset the time to go into sleep mode when the memory card is transmitting or receiving digital data.