Patent Document ID: 8212894
Application ID: 12225257
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. An electronic camera comprising: an image pickup device that takes an image of a subject; a face detecting section that detects a face area in a shooting image plane based on an output of the image pickup device and extracts a feature amount of a face of the subject from the face area; an inferential section that performs inferential processing of at least one of an age and a gender of the subject based on the feature amount; an image processing section that performs at least one of an exposure correction, a soft focus correction, a skin smoothing correction to adjust color saturation of a skin color, and a correction to make a person look slim, on a recording-purpose image of the subject taken by the image pickup device when the gender of the subject inferred by the inferential section is a female, or when the age of the subject inferred by the inferential section is not more than a threshold value; and a record controlling section that records the corrected recording-purpose image as the recording-purpose image.