Patent ID: 7714896

Claim:
An image capturing apparatus comprising: an image capturing unit configured to acquire image data during a predetermined time interval by capturing an image of a subject; an image processing unit configured to perform image processing of the image data acquired by the image capturing unit; a network communication unit configured to receive plural types of requests for the image data, and to send out the image data processed by the image processing unit onto a network during a time period corresponding to the predetermined time interval; a processing performance determination unit configured to determine the content of processing to be able to be processed within the predetermined time interval based on the requests received by the network communication unit and to specify at least the order of image processing or the content of the image processing to the image processing unit; wherein the image processing unit performs plural image processing operations based on the order of image processing or the content of the image processing specified by the processing performance determination unit within the time period corresponding to the predetermined time interval.