| English | Danish |
| Ambient Light Indicator | Indikator for omgivende lys (An administration application to help you find lighting issues that affect a smaller area of the Surface screen. This tool can help you adjust the lighting or the unit position. You should use this tool every time that the Surface unit is moved to a new location or lighting is modified significantly) |
| ambient light sensor | sensor for omgivende lys (A type of light sensor that tracks ambient light in the surroundings and therefore the amount of backlight needed for the LCD screen to be adjusted accordingly) |
| directional light | parallelt strålebundt (A light source that is attached to a frame but appears to illuminate all objects with equal intensity, as if it were at an infinite distance from the objects. Directional light has orientation but no position, and it is commonly used to simulate distant light sources, such as the sun) |
| maelstrom light | hvirvelstrømslys (The bottom triangular blue light located furthest from the entrance to the hyperspace chute in 3D Pinball for Windows - Space Cadet) |
| SCM status indicator lights | SSM-statusindikatorer (A set of three lights that gives a detailed status of a Surface unit. These lights are part of the system control module (SCM) in the I/O connections area. On venue units, you must remove the appropriate end panel to view these lights. On developer units, the end panel is removed and you can always view these lights) |
| status light | statuslys (A light that appears around a Surface screen to indicate the overall status of the unit. The status light displays the following colors: A rhodamine (pink) color appears temporarily when the unit is turned on. A blue color appears temporarily when the unit is turned off. A red color appears when there is a problem with the unit. The SCM status indicator lights provide more details information about the status of a Surface unit) |
| video encoded invisible light | Video Encoded Invisible Light (A technology for encoding low-bandwidth digital data bitstream in video signal, which enables broadcasters to encode information into TV commercials that can be detected by special machines but that cannot be seen by the human eye) |
