Patent ID: 7199829

Claim:
An electronic camera, comprising: an imaging device which converts an optical image into an analog image signal; an A/D converter which converts the analog image signal outputted from the imaging device into a digital image signal; an unprocessed data storing device which stores the digital image signal outputted from the A/D converter as unprocessed image data; a signal processing device which processes the unprocessed image data read out from the unprocessed data storing device into a processed image data in accordance with an image property parameter; an image property setting device through which an instruction is inputted to change data of the image property parameter; a display which displays an image represented by the processed image data processed by the signal processing device in accordance with the data of the image property parameter set with the image property setting device; a compression process device which compresses the processed image data; and a recording device which records the processed image data compressed by the compression process device in a recording medium, wherein the display displays at least one of histogram, average level, peak level, and bottom level of the result of the image processing, which is processed according to the image property setting designated by a user, wherein the image property setting device and the signal processing device work cooperatively to repeatedly query whether a user is satisfied with the processed image data, query for changes to the image property parameter in the event that the user is not satisfied, and process the unprocessed image data to produce a new processed image data in accordance with the correspondingly changed image property parameter until the user is satisfied, an image represented by the new processed image data is displayed on the display, and wherein when the user is satisfied, the compression process device compresses image data corresponding to the processed image data displayed on the display and the recording device stores the compressed image data in the recording medium.