Patent ID: 8503810

Claim:
An image processing system, comprising: a characteristic region detecting section that detects a characteristic region from an image, including detecting, as a characteristic region, a region including an object that moves in a moving image; a compressing section that compresses the image by compressing each prescribed partial region, wherein the compressing section compresses an image of a partial region included in the characteristic region by using pixel values of pixels, the number of which is larger than the number of pixels used for compressing an image of a partial region included in a region other than the characteristic region and for obtaining a moving-image constituting image from each moving image; and an inclusion region identifying section that identifies, as an inclusion region, a collective region of partial regions that include a plurality of characteristic regions in each of a plurality of moving-image constituting images, wherein the compressing section reference-encodes regions other than the inclusion region in each of the moving-image constituting images; and the compressing section does not reference-encode the inclusion region in each of the moving-image constituting images.