IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD

In an image processing apparatus 100, an image acquiring portion 11 acquires image information. A position acquiring portion 12 acquires an image capturing position and an image capturing direction of the image information. An image-capturing propriety information acquiring portion 13 acquires image-capturing propriety information indicating that a position of an information terminal 200 corresponds to image-capturing propriety setting information. An image editing portion 14 performs a masking process to a range based on the information terminal 200 in the image information acquired by the image acquiring portion 11, in accordance with image-capturing propriety setting information of the image-capturing propriety information indicating that the position of the information terminal 200 in the image-capturing propriety information corresponds to the image capturing range based on the image capturing position and the image capturing direction acquired by the position acquiring portion 12.