Patent ID: 7355635

Claim:
An electronic camera comprising: an imaging part for imaging a subject to produce image data: a conditional information determining part for determining conditional information, the conditional information being indicative of a condition of the subject at a time when said imaging part produces said image data; a storage part for storing previous conditional information determined by said conditional information determining part; a correction processing part for performing correction processing on said image data, according to both the previous conditional information stored in said storage part and current conditional information which is determined by said conditional information determining part when said imaging part produces said image data; and an image pickup time obtaining part for obtaining image pickup time every time said imaging part produces image data, wherein said correction processing part has a control parameter calculating part that calculates a control parameter every time said imaging part produces said image data, the control parameter being used for the correction processing on the image data; said storage part stores a previous control parameter calculated by said control parameter calculating part; when an elapsed length of time from previous image pickup time to present image pickup time is equal to or greater than an upper limit value, said control parameter calculating part determines the control parameter calculated according to the current conditional information as the new control parameter; and when the elapsed length of time is less than a lower limit value, said control parameter calculating part determines the previous control parameter stored in said storage part as the new control parameter.