The Cupertino-based tech company Apple has allegedly filed a patent for a futuristic Apple Pencil design. One of the features highlighted in the official Apple document is the ability to sense real-life color through new technology. Artists using next-generation Apple Pencil with this feature could take real-world colors on real-world objects like a canvass and oil painting into the digital world.
Future Apple Pencil
The latest Apple patent application spotted by Patently Apple talks about a technology that could allow users to derive or sample real-life colors. The patent was filed at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). It is titled "Computer System with Color Sampling Stylus."
The Apple patent describes the Apple Pencil feature as a new system that could sense or detect real-life colors useful for digital arts, drawings, edits, photoshops, and more. Aside from drawings, the color sensor can also be utilized for other essential purposes. It includes calibrating printers and displays, developing health-associated parameters, and identifying paint colors for home and other projects.
Other Apple Pencil Details
The recently spotted patent describes the Apple Pencil or a stylus device with an elongated body, a tip, and an opposing end in terms of design. The tip would work with a touch-sensitive display. The patent also notes that the color sensor feature could be positioned to some parts of the device via a light source. Apple also notes that the color sensor functionality could feature more than one photodetector.
Each detector is capable of measuring light for various sets of color channels. It could also feature light-emitting devices to shed light on an external object to detect the color. This kind of technology could essentially revolutionize what Apple Pencil users could do. Apart from the advantages and uses mentioned earlier, this feature could allow users for photorealistic arts and photos by simply sampling distinct colors from plants, grass, existing arts, and more.
Optical color sensors such as this described in the Apple patent exist and have been utilized in a lot of ways. Sphero Specdrums is one of these rudimentary color sensors that could transform color into sound. The patent filed by the Cupertino company is not in any way a guarantee that future Apple Pencil would ship with this exciting feature.
Like all other companies, Apple has a habit of filing patents and trademarks. At times, these patents are released in the market, but most often, they remain as ideas or concepts. In this case, it is smarter to take this information with a pinch of salt.
