Patent ID: 8248482

Claim:
An automatic method for optimizing a digital image acquired by a camera according to the preferences of the user, the method comprising: (a) providing, within the camera, a list which includes preferred camera parameters to apply during capturing of images; (b) defining “like” user actions and “dislike” user actions, each of said actions, when performed on an image file captured by the camera, indicates respectively that the user likes or dislikes the respective image; (c) upon each image capturing, storing within the respective image file those camera shooting parameters that have been used by the camera during said image capturing; (d) monitoring by the camera to detect “like” or “dislike” user actions with respect to each image file or image in their entirety, and upon detection of such an action, changing the preferred camera parameters within said list of preferred parameters based on the camera parameters stored within the respective image file; and (e) upon future capturing of images by the camera, adjusting one or more of the camera shooting parameters based on said list of preferred parameters; wherein each of said user “like” or “dislike” actions is an action which is either performed on the image file in its entirety independent of the image file specific content or any of the image details and thereby provides a “like” or “dislike” conclusion respectively in an indirect manner, or is alternatively at most a single incication from the user merely stating that the user either “likes” or “dislikes” the entire image which is the subject of said image file irrespective of any of the image details.