Apple Inc.

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Timothy Robert Oriol

Thomas G Salter

Samuel Lee Iglesias

Thomas J Moore

Anshu Kameswar Chimalamarri

Paul Ewers

James C McIlree

Christopher D Fu

Paulo R Jansen Dos Reis

Alesha Unpingco

Peter Burgner

Ashwin K Vijay

Guilherme Klink

Tigran Khachatryan

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

An apparatus includes a transceiver and a controller in communication with the transceiver. The controller is configured to determine a target lighting condition in a room relative to a current lighting condition in the room. The controller is also configured to generate a control signal with instructions to adjust an ambient lighting peripheral in the room based on the determined target lighting condition. The control signal is provided to the transceiver for transmission.

Dynamic ambient lighting control

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