An information processing apparatus that generates images for displaying a computer execution result on a display unit of a terminal device connected through a network and that transmits the images to the terminal device. The apparatus includes an image memory that holds the images; a first transmitting unit that transmits the images, a detecting unit that detects an area obtained by updating accumulated changes between frames of the images or a frequency of changes between frames of the images, and a second transmitting unit that compresses the images by a compression method and that transmits the compressed images, when the area or the frequency detected by the detecting unit is larger than or equal to a predetermined threshold, the compression method being different from a compression method for the first transmitting unit.