Patent ID: 7522777

Claim:
An image sensing apparatus having image sensing means and storing an image sensed by the image sensing means in a storage medium, comprising: region designation means for designating a desired region in an image-sensible area of said image sensing means, wherein the designated desired region corresponds to a partial image; image sensing control means for, after the desired region in the image-sensible area is designated and when an instruction for sensing a new image is inputted, controlling said image sensing means to sense and obtain an image to be stored in the storage medium; compression-encoding means for compression-encoding the currently obtained image by said image sensing means, where an image quality of compression-encoding for the partial image within the desired region designated by said region designation means is different from that of the image other than the partial image; storage means for storing in the storage medium the image that is compression-encoded by said compression-encoding means; selection means for, in a case where a desired image in the storage medium to be deleted is selected and a region designated by said region designation means is included within the selected image, selecting one of the portions of the selected image in which at least an image of an area other than the partial image is included as a deletion target; and deletion means for deleting data corresponding to the deletion target region, selected by said selection means, from the storage medium.