This disclosure relates to an image forming apparatus the operation of which is also controllable on the basis of an operating instruction from a mobile terminal.
Techniques which allow image forming apparatuses to be operated by mobile terminals have recently been proposed. For example, a technique of wirelessly operating an image forming apparatus using a mobile terminal owned by a user has been proposed. A technique of automatically selecting an electronic device to be operated has also been proposed. With this technique, field intensities of a plurality of electronic devices are measured by a remote controller, and the one of those having the strongest field intensity, i.e. the electronic device located closest to the remote controller, is selected as the electronic device to be operated.