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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2024
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Justin D. Stoyles, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael Kuhn, Baierbrunn, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
In an exemplary process, an electronic device obtains, from an external device, information specifying one or more available functions of the external device, and image data of a physical environment that includes the external device is captured by an image sensor. The electronic device then determines that the image data includes a representation of the external device, and in response, a display concurrently presents a view of the physical environment and a user-activatable virtual object corresponding to a first function of the one or more available functions of the external device, where the user-activatable virtual object is selected from a plurality of candidate user-activatable virtual objects based on the information specifying the one or more available functions of the external device.