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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2024
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Thomas J Moore, Northglenn, CO (US);
Alesha Unpingco, Milpitas, CA (US);
Anshu K Chimalamarri, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ashwin K Vijay, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Christopher D Fu, Fremont, CA (US);
Guilherme Klink, Cupertino, CA (US);
In Young Yang, Kirkland, WA (US);
Paul Ewers, San Jose, CA (US);
Paulo R Jansen Dos Reis, San Jose, CA (US);
Peter Burgner, Venice, CA (US);
Thomas G Salter, San Francisco, CA (US);
Tigran Khachatryan, North Hills, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
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.