Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium having program stored therein

An image processing method comprising:

• determining a first region based on an occurrence position where a phenomenon is estimated to occur in an image;
• setting a first condition in which the first region is encoded, and a second condition in which a second region included in the image and being a region other than the first region is encoded in such a way that the first region enhances image quality as compared with the second region;
• estimating the occurrence position, based on data acquired by a sensor;
• and
• specifying a direction of a sound source, based on sound data collected by two or more microphones, and estimating a position indicated by the direction of the sound source in the image, as the occurrence position.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program causing a computer to execute:

• determination processing of determining a first region based on an occurrence position where a phenomenon is estimated to occur in an image;
• setting processing of setting a first condition in which the first region is encoded, and a second condition in which a second region included in the image and being a region other than the first region is encoded in such a way that the first region enhances image quality as compared with the second region;
• and
• position estimation processing of estimating the occurrence position, based on data acquired by a sensor, wherein
• the position estimation processing specifies a direction of a sound source, based on sound data collected by two or more microphones, and estimates a position indicated by the direction of the sound source in the image, as the occurrence position.