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Camera Reverse Engineering Lingo

Name Desc
PTP Picture Transfer Protocol
MTP Media Transfer Protocol
RTOS Real Time Operating System
DPS Digital Photo Solutions for Imaging Devices
SICD USB Still Image Capture Device
DPOF Digital Print Order Format
DCF Camera File System
EEP EEPROM
RTC Real Time Clock
SDIO Secure Digital Input Output (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SD_card#SDIO_cards)
DSC Digital Still Camera
AP (Wireless) Access Point
IC Integrated Circuit
RST Rasterizer
RSSI Received Signal Strength Indicator
IEEE Wireless communications standard
BSS Block starting symbol, uninitialized global arrays/data
TMOUT Timeout
WLD Wireless LAN Device?
DSCF Digital Storage Compact Flash