Apple patents a real-world color sampling sensor for the Apple Pencil

Apple patents a real-world color sampling sensor for the Apple Pencil

Apple Pencil is Apple’s best tools for creative minds, offering high-levels of precision and accuracy for drawing on the iPad. Apple faced criticism for releasing it in the first place given late-Apple CEO Steve Jobs said Apple would never release a stylus.

Nonetheless, the product has been a success. And today, thanks to a new patent, we have some hints on a potential future feature of the product. A new patent published by the US Patent and Trademark Office, spotted by first by AppleInsider suggests that a future Apple Pencil may have a real-life color picker sensor.

In practice, users would be able to point the sensor on the Apple Pencil to a real-life object, and then the sensor would detect the color, and automatically select the color on the device. This feature would change the game for many artists who often struggle with finding the perfect shade or tone of a specific color.

The patent in specific states photodetectors with lights that would be able to measure color channels in order to detect the color. It’s worth noting that companies, including Apple patent many ideas and technologies, however, that doesn’t mean for certain they will ever get released.