Monitoring system, monitoring method, and monitoring program

摘要

An object of the present invention is to reduce a data amount of a frame image to reduce a data amount of a captured image. A monitoring system according to the present invention includes: an image capturing section that takes a moving image including a plurality of frame images; a figure authenticating section that authenticates whether a figure included in each of a plurality of frame images taken by the image capturing section is a figure previously registered; a data amount changing section that reduces, when a figure included in a frame image taken by the image capturing section has been authenticated by the figure authenticating section, a data amount of that frame image; and an image storing section that displaces, among the plurality of frame images taken by the image capturing section, a frame image in which a figure has been authenticated by the figure authenticating section by a frame image of which a data amount has been reduced by the data amount changing section to store the displaced frame image.