Apple's Third Generation Pencil May Feature Sensor to Copy Texture, Colour From Surfaces: Report

Apple has reportedly filed a patent exertion for an optical sensor that would let a next-generation Apple Pencil to transcript the texture and the colour from the aboveground of an item. The optical sensor whitethorn reportedly besides alteration the 3rd procreation Apple Pencil to wirelessly relay detected information to a laptop truthful it could beryllium utilized with a drafting program. The patent besides includes details of however the summation of the sensor could alteration the quality of the Apple Pencil.

According to a report by PatentlyApple, Apple has filed patent for an optical sensor that could correspond to the patent exertion fig US 20220413636 A1 with the US Patent and Trademark Office, which could diagnostic connected a aboriginal mentation of the Apple Pencil stylus.

The sensor volition reportedly let the Apple Pencil to observe the texture and colour of an object's aboveground and "copy" them onto the Apple Device, that is expected to beryllium instrumentality the adjacent procreation Apple Pencil volition beryllium utilized successful conjunction with. This information could besides beryllium shared wirelessly to a laptop for usage with drafting software, arsenic per the report.

The patent exertion indicates that the adjacent procreation Apple Pencil could incorporate a airy sensor and a airy emitter which volition enactment successful tandem to analyse and observe colour and texture of a aboveground that the stylus is pointed to.

Meanwhile, Yanko Design has published renders that visualise however the adjacent procreation Apple Pencil could look similar with the sensor.

The Cupertino, California-based elephantine has antecedently filed different patents related to biometric verification, motion designation similar surface taps that facilitate copying, pasting, and undoing/redoing functions, arsenic per a report by PhoneArena. Apple has besides filed a patent exertion which is believed to see a speaker, a rotary input device, a microphone, an on/off button, a mute button, a biometric sensor, a camera, and a unit and/or touch-sensitive trackpad connected the Apple Pencil, according to the report.

A adjacent procreation Apple Pencil could marque its mode to the nationalist sometime adjacent year, the study adds.

However, it is important to enactment that Apple has not provided immoderate authoritative confirmation oregon denotation regarding the developments astir the adjacent procreation Apple Pencil. It is besides worthy to enactment that each patent which is filed does not ever marque its mode arsenic an existent diagnostic connected the company's upcoming devices.

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