Patent ID: 7554688
Filing Date: 2009-06-30
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of printing an image using an image display-free printing unit, which prints an image corresponding to image data read from an external memory card, and a personal computer, which is connectable to the image display-free printing unit, the method comprising: checking for or generating compressed image data from the external memory card in the image display-free printing unit; transmitting the compressed image data to the personal computer together with an image number; storing the compressed image data and the image number transmitted from the image display-free printing unit in the personal computer; remotely controlling, by the image display-free printing unit, displaying by the personal computer the image data transmitted from the image display-free printing unit; and printing at the image display-free printing unit the displayed image data in response to a user print request at the image display-free printing unit, wherein a size of image data displayed on a monitor occupies part of a full screen of the monitor and a user prints the image at the image display-free printing unit by selecting a desired image while another application of the user or another user is contemporaneously displayed on the monitor.