IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve image quality of an image after compression processing while suppressing compression processing with unnecessarily high compressibility.SOLUTION: An imaging apparatus 100 comprises: a compression unit 5a for performing compression processing on each non-compressed image data successively acquired at predetermined time intervals; a compression control information setting unit 5b for setting compression control information for instructing whether to permit the second compression processing after the compression processing by the compression unit on the image data to be processed, in accordance with the predetermined time intervals; and a compression control unit 5e which controls the compression unit to perform the compression processing on the image data to be processed within the predetermined time intervals, on the basis of the set compression control information.