We love using the Apple Pencil as it is arguably the best iPad battle buddy. In addition, in the latest iPad Pro models we find a second generation of this stylus that incorporates features that are especially outstanding for professionals in drawing or photo editing. From the Californian company they intend to continue giving the importance it deserves to this accessory and a good proof of this are the dozens of registered patents talking about new technologies to incorporate in the future, such as the last one that has been known and that we will talk about today.
True color detection on Apple Pencil
As we said in the introduction, the Apple Pencil is essential for those who work with specialized applications for photo editing with their iPad, either as a hobby or professionally. In this sense, Apple is studying a new technology that would provide a new possibility for these users: the detection of colors that exist in our real environment and being able to use them on the tablet using the stylus as a detection tool. What does this mean? Well, we could point the Pencil at a real object that we have nearby and bring that color to the tablet.
Obviously, this technology cannot be implemented in current accessories, since it requires specially dedicated sensors that allow exact precision. In a recent patent filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Apple details this technology in a document titled “Computer System with Color Sampling Pen,” in its English translation. This document describes in detail some details such as the inclusion of photodetectors with the ability to measure ambient light and thereby capture the real color of an object. This would also require other light sensors dedicated to finding color more accurately.
This could have endless possibilities for daily use of the Apple Pencil, since in addition to being able to capture digital colors on the screen as we can already do, we could take more accurately those of our environment. Currently we have to take a photograph of the specific object from which we want to obtain the color and then detect it already from the iPad, but this does not guarantee as much accuracy as we would have with the new sensors.
Will it arrive in the near future?
Whenever we talk about patents we insist on emphasizing that these do not always entail a future launch. A company of the stature of Apple registers dozens of patents throughout the year with the intention that no competitor will anticipate its possible novelties, but the vast majority end up being discarded. Either due to not being able to develop as planned or not seeing the exact functionality described above, the company does not always end up making these documents a reality. Therefore, this functionality of the Apple Pencil is not exempt from the possibility of ending up in the trash, although it does not look good.
2nd generation Apple Pencil
This novelty seems quite useful and from the way it is described it also does not seem that Apple is going to have too many problems to build it. That is why we give it a good chance of becoming a reality, possibly in a hypothetical third-generation Apple Pencil that, surely, will come with some other great novelty in the iPad Pro. Now, talking about dates is something else. risky considering the always unpredictable Apple calendar. Therefore, it is better to arm yourself with patience and wait for new future information that will yield more data about this possibility.