APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING IMAGE WHICH IS TRANSFERRED TO AND DISPLAYED ON MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICES

An apparatus and a method for processing an image are provided to transmit image information regardless of the type and the size of an LCD of a mobile communication terminal device by changing compression type and compression size of the image information according to a display format of the mobile communication terminal device. An image converting unit(117) analyzes a header of a received image information to select a decoder according to the compression type and then restore the received image information. The image converting unit(117) changes compression type and compression size of the restored image information suitable for characteristics of a display device of a mobile communication terminal device, which is checked by analyzing a header of a wireless internet protocol transmitted from the mobile communication terminal device, and then transmits the image information to the mobile communication terminal device. A controlling unit(116) controls the processing of data for requesting the image information to an image output device by checking an IP address of the image output device through a dynamic domain name server, which is synchronized by searching for domain name information of the image output device matched with a telephone number of the mobile communication terminal device.