Patent ID: 7907180

Claim:
A shooting system which connects an image sensing apparatus to a monitoring apparatus capable of displaying an image shot by the image sensing apparatus, and which distributes an image from the image sensing apparatus to the monitoring apparatus, the system comprising: an administrator setting unit configured to set a first administrator to administrate whether an apparatus is permitted to display a first partial area contained in a shootable range of the image sensing apparatus, and to set a second administrator to administrate whether an apparatus is permitted to display a second partial area contained in the shootable range of the image sensing apparatus; an image processing unit configured to perform a process to restrict display of a partial area; and an image distribution unit configured to distribute, to a monitoring apparatus, an image of the first partial area which has not been processed by the image processing unit to restrict display and an image of the second partial area which has been processed by the image processing unit to restrict display, in a case where the monitoring apparatus is permitted by the first administrator to display the first partial area and is not permitted by the second administrator to display the second partial area.