Patent ID: 7496212

Claim:
A change detecting apparatus for detecting a change in an image based on image data of said image, said change detecting apparatus comprising: an input portion for inputting said image data obtained by an imaging apparatus; a processing unit for processing said image data input from said input portion; a storage for storing said image data, wherein said processing unit has an image data change detecting portion and a monitoring information output portion, wherein said storage has a monitoring schedule table and a plurality of image recognition region tables each having set therein at least one partial region of an image from said imaging apparatus as a to-be-image-recognized region, wherein said image data change detecting portion reads said image data from said storage, selects one of said plurality of image recognition region tables in accordance with said monitoring schedule table, and based on the selected image recognition region table, detects a change in a region of said image data corresponding to said to-be-image recognized region, and wherein said monitoring information output portion generates a signal representing said change in image data and outputs said signal to a detection result receiving unit which is connected to said change detecting apparatus; an image recognition region setting screen, wherein said image recognition region setting screen includes a table name setting portion which sets table names of said plurality of image recognition region tables; and a monitoring schedule setting screen, wherein said monitoring schedule setting screen includes an inputting field for allowing a user to set at least one of a plurality of image recognition region tables by using or displaying an identification.