An image processing apparatus includes: a user input unit that converts input manipulation of a user into an input signal; a security setting unit that sets a security mode and a password based on the input signal; an imaging unit that captures an image and converts the image into image data; an encoding processor that encodes the image data in such a way that the image data is combined with the password and the image corresponding to image data is deformed when the image processing apparatus is set in the security mode by the security setting unit; and a storage unit that stores the image data.