Patent ID: 7522208
Filing Date: 2009-04-21
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A digital camera comprising: a color image sensor; an optical system that forms an image of a subject on the color image sensor; a rotatable first switch; a second switch that switches a photograph mode, a first setting mode, and a second setting model, the second switch being a lever adapted to indicate an intermediate point corresponding to the photograph mode, a first point corresponding to the first setting mode, or a second point corresponding to the second setting mode, the intermediate point arranged between the first point and the second point; a first setting unit that sets a first processing condition relating to a white balance of an image according to a rotation angle of the first switch in the first setting mode; a second setting unit that sets a second processing condition relating to a data size of an image according to a rotation angle of the first switch in the second setting mode; a first indication needle that indicates the first processing condition; a second indication needle that indicates the second processing condition; and processing unit that processes an output signal of the color image sensor according to the first processing condition and the second processing condition in the photograph mode.