Patent ID: 7136103

Claim:
A digital camera, comprising: a holder for holding a plurality of color adjusting values which respectively corresponds to a plurality of representative colors; a photographer for photographing an object and outputting an image signal of the photographed object; an adjuster for subjecting the image signal outputted from said photographer to a color adjustment based on the plurality of color adjusting values held by said holder; an image displayer for displaying in real-time an image based on the image signal to which said color adjustment is subjected, wherein a first color sample displayer and a second color sample displayer are operative to display simultaneously a first color sample and a second color sample, respectively, over a portion of said image, said first and second color samples both correspond to the same color adjusting value of said plurality of color adjusting values, and said first and second color sample displayers are operative to display color samples of a particular color that is not present in said image; and a changer for arbitrarily changing the plurality of color adjusting values held by said holder, said changer being operative to change the plurality of color adjusting values by varying the first color sample while the second color sample remains unchanged.