Nucleus PictBridge

Due to the rapid market penetration of digital cameras, consumers are demanding an easier way to print images rather than the traditional, cumbersome way of downloading pictures to a PC and then to a printer.  The PictBridge standard, from the Camera & Imaging Products Association (CIPA), provides a way to print directly from a digital camera to a printer regardless of the make of either, without requiring a computer in between. The Nucleus PictBridge software is designed so that developers can quickly and easily develop PictBridge-compliant digital cameras and printers so that any brand of digital camera can communicate with any brand of printer.

The Nucleus PictBridge software is independent of the physical interface or transport layer protocol.  The first release of the Nucleus PictBridge software has been integrated with the Nucleus USB stack and the Nucleus USB Still Image class driver for direct printing between printer and digital camera via USB. The Nucleus PictBridge Host enables a PictBridge-compliant printer and the Nucleus PictBridge Function creates a PictBridge-compliant digital camera or mobile handset equipped with a camera.