This detection preferably uses visible features of devices which are e.g. looked up in a database storing features of devices to identify the devices and to find out if a device has a wireless functionality. Preferably, additional parameters of a detected device, e.g. device type, storage space, parameters of the wireless functionality, etc. are detected, e.g. from the database, which additional parameters may also be indicated on the screen 4. Detected wireless enabled devices 11, 12, in this example a TV set 11 and a gaming device 12 (e.g. a playstation) are then indicated on the screen 4, e.g. by use of a frame 13, 14 (e.g. in red color to indicate “l(fā)ink ready”) drawn around the respective wireless enabled device 11, 12 as shown in
In a preferred embodiment the mobile device 1 sends out probing signal to further improve the detection of wireless enabled devices. Thus, the objection detection unit not only uses image information in an image recognition algorithm, but also evaluates any response signals received from wireless enabled devices to detect and possibly identify wireless enabled devices.
This searching and object detection (and preferably object identification) process shall be repeated periodically to update the current real environment on the screen.