Patent ID: 8525889

Claim:
An apparatus for remotely controlling an image forming device using wireless data communication, the apparatus comprising: a wireless interface for providing a wireless communication interface used to transmit and receive image data to and from the image forming device; a display unit for displaying an image and the image data received from the image forming device; and a user input unit for selecting at least one of a plurality of pieces of image data information received through the wireless data communication, and selecting image activity information comprising at least one of the activities of printing, editing, transferring, deleting, television outputting, and printing option setting up with respect to the image displayed on the display unit; wherein the wireless interface requests from the image forming device file system information stored in a storage medium that is installed in or is directly connected to the image forming device, receives the file system information from the image forming device, transmits the image data information selected through the user input unit by using the file system information to the image forming device, receives image data corresponding to the transmitted image data information from the image forming device, transmits a signal to the image forming device requesting the activity corresponding to the image activity information selected by the user input unit and receives information on a proceeding state of activity corresponding to the signal from the image forming apparatus; wherein the display unit displays a current activity proceeding state of the image forming device using the received proceeding state information; and wherein the wireless interface, the display unit and the user input unit are integrated in one device, the device being portable.