Patent ID: 7425986

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: an image information reception unit adapted to receive image information compressed by a first compression method suitable for a first terminal from an image sensing apparatus; an expansion unit adapted to expand the image information of the first compression method received by said image information reception unit; a database adapted to store a plurality of pieces of information relating to a position at which information other than the image information expanded by said expansion unit is superimposed and relating to a size of the information other than the image information, the stored information corresponding to current time and control information of the image sensing apparatus including at least one of pan angle, tilt angle and zoom scaling factor; an image processing unit adapted to acquire information relating to the position and the size corresponding to a current position and control information from said database and superimpose information other than the image information on the image information expanded by said expansion unit in accordance with the acquired information relating to the position and the size; a compression unit adapted to compress the expanded image information on which the information other than the image information is superimposed, by a second compression method suitable for a second terminal which is different from the first compression method; and an image information delivering unit adapted to deliver the image information compressed by the second compression method to the second terminal which is different from the first terminal.