Patent ID: 7355635
Filing Date: 2008-04-08
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An electronic camera comprising: an imaging part for imaging a subject to produce image data: a conditional information determining part for determining conditional information, the conditional information being indicative of a condition of the subject at a time when said imaging part produces said image data; a storage part for storing previous conditional information determined by said conditional information determining part; a correction processing part for performing correction processing on said image data, according to both the previous conditional information stored in said storage part and current conditional information which is determined by said conditional information determining part when said imaging part produces said image data; and an image pickup time obtaining part for obtaining image pickup time every time said imaging part produces image data, wherein when the elapsed length of time is less than a lower limit value, said control parameter calculating part determines the previous control parameter stored in said storage part as the new control parameter.