Patent ID: 7508444

Claim:
An electronic still camera for capturing and displaying images, said camera comprising: a shutter button for initiating capture of the images; a sensor for capturing the images; a first memory for storing a captured image; an electronic image display is automatically powered up after the image is captured by the sensor for automatically displaying the captured images from the first memory for a first time interval in response to operation of said shutter button; a second memory for storing a plurality of processed images; a processor for processing images from the first memory and storing the processed images as image files in the second memory, said processor operating over a second time interval to process an image; a user enabled control section coupled to the processor for erasing the image before the end of the second time interval so as to facilitate the capture and processing of another image; the camera also includes an image display control section to enable the image display to be automatically turned off after displaying the captured image for the first time interval; and wherein the captured image stored in the first memory is subsampled and stored in the first memory prior to the electronic image display being powered up.