Patent ID: 8830341

Claim:
A method of providing an optimum image of a scene in a digital camera, said method comprising: setting a plurality of camera settings to a plurality of combination of values, wherein different values of each of said plurality of camera settings affect at least one image characteristic of corresponding captured image, wherein said plurality of camera settings comprises white balance; capturing a plurality of images of said scene in a burst mode; selecting automatically a first image in said plurality of images by processing only said plurality of images; sending said first image as said optimum image of said scene; forming a plurality of frames from said plurality of images according to said plurality of combination of values, wherein each frame correspond to an image and to a single combination of values for the camera settings; extracting a corresponding plurality of image parameters from each of said plurality of frames; and calculating a corresponding metric value for each of said plurality of frames based on the corresponding plurality of image parameters and the plurality of combination of values using which the image is captured, wherein said selecting selects one of said plurality of images as said first image based on the corresponding metric values and wherein said plurality of image parameters comprise an edge count, a luma level, a color cast distance, and a smoothness level for each of said frames, and is computed according to a weighted average of said plurality of image parameters.