Apple Inc.

Ashwin K Vijay

Paulo R Jansen Dos Reis

Peter Burgner

Guilherme Klink

Benjamin S Phipps

Thomas G Salter

Luis R Deliz Centeno

Anshu Kameswar Chimalamarri

Thomas J Moore

Gregory Lutter

Paul Ewers

Christopher D Fu

Yutaka Yokokawa

In Young Yang

Alesha Unpingco

Brandon K Schmuck

Tigran Khachatryan

Andrew Muehlhausen

A head-mounted device may be used to control one or more external electronic devices. Gaze input and camera images may be used to determine a point of gaze relative to a display for an external electronic device. The external electronic device may receive information regarding the user's gaze input from the head-mounted device and may highlight one out of multiple user interface elements that is targeted by the gaze input. The head-mounted device may receive input such as keystroke information from an accessory device and relay the input to an external electronic device that is being viewed. The head-mounted device may receive a display configuration request, determine layout information for displays in the physical environment of the head-mounted device, and transmit the layout information to an external device associated with the displays.

Controlling devices using a wearable device

A head-mounted device may be used to perform a visual search on a physical environment around the head-mounted device. A user may wish to visually search one out of multiple physical objects in the physical environment. To clearly show the user which physical object was the target of a visual search, the head-mounted device may present a thumbnail of the candidate physical object on a display. The thumbnail may be cropped and/or zoomed using an image from a camera on the head-mounted device. By displaying a thumbnail that is taken by a camera on the head-mounted device, the thumbnail will directly match the physical object in the user's physical environment, eliminating ambiguity regarding which physical object is the subject of the visual search.

Thumbnail for disambiguation in a visual search

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Ashwin K Vijay