Patent ID: 7936372

Claim:
An image processing system comprising: an image pickup device, a server for storing therein video data outputted from said image pickup device; an image being captured with said image pickup device and being outputted in a form of the video data from said image pickup device; and a terminal apparatus to which the video data is transmitted from said server; wherein said image pickup device including: a video data generating section configured to capture an image, and generating video data on the image; and a metadata generating section configured to generate metadata representing information on an image of an object of monitoring; wherein said server including; a video data storing section configured to store therein the video data supplied from said image pickup device; and a metadata storing section configured to store therein the metadata supplied from said image pickup device; in which said server comprises an analyzing section configured to analyze the metadata stored in said metadata storing section, in which said image processing system comprises a plurality of terminal apparatuses having different data throughputs including a first terminal apparatus having a low data throughput and a second terminal apparatus having a high data throughput, and in which during operation said server obtains performance information of a respective terminal apparatus and supplies either the metadata stored in said metadata storing section of said server or the analysis result in said analyzing section of said server thereto depending upon the obtained performance information such that said server supplies the analysis result in said analyzing section and not the metadata stored in said metadata storing section to the first terminal apparatus having the low data throughput or low performance, and such that said server supplies the metadata stored in said metadata storing section to the second terminal apparatus having the high data throughput or high performance so that the metadata is analyzed on the second terminal apparatus side.