Patent ID: 8203626

Claim:
A digital camera comprising: a video image obtaining unit; a display device; an image processing unit configured to apply a special effect to a video image obtained by the video image obtaining unit; a recording unit configured to record the video image on a recording medium; a selecting unit configured to changeably select the special effect to be applied to the obtained video image by the image processing unit, while the recording unit is recording the video image on the recording medium; a deciding unit configured to decide the selection of the special effect by the selecting unit; and an instructing unit configured to instruct the image processing unit to start applying to the obtained video image the special effect the selection of which is decided by the deciding unit, wherein in a time period during which the recording unit is recording the video image obtained by the video image obtaining unit on the recording medium, the selecting unit changeably selects the special effect and until the deciding unit decides the selection of the special effect by the selecting unit, the recording unit records the video image to which the special effect changeably selected by the selection unit is not applied to the obtained video image by the image processing unit, on the recording medium and the display device displays an animation which imitates a video image to which the special effect changeably selected by the selection unit is applied, and a character string which represents a name of the selected special effect, together with the obtained video image to which the processing unit has not applied the special effect changeably selected by the selection unit and changes the displayed animation and character string in accordance with the selected special effect being changed by the selecting unit, wherein in accordance with the deciding unit deciding the selection of the special effect, an information corresponding to the selected special effect is stored in a memory and the display unit stops displaying the animation, and wherein after the display unit stops displaying the animation, in accordance with the instructing unit instructing to start to apply the special effect to the obtained video image, the image processing unit starts to apply the special effect to the obtained video image and the recoding unit records the video image to which the special effect is applied by the image processing unit, on the recording medium.