This product includes a little finger ring that can be tapped against real world objects to make sounds based on the color it senses, but Apple's implementation would presumably be much more precise.Īpple patents all kinds of different technologies, some of which seem plausible to implement and others that are quite fantastical. In fact, we've tested a simple, rudimentary optical color sensor in the Sphero Specdrums, a product meant to turn color into sound. Optical color sensors like this already exist and have been used in various ways. On the Draw tab, Pen or text Highlighter you want, and then tap the downward-facing arrow next to the pen to change the color. Apple also suggests that color sensor could perhaps be used for other purposes such as calibrating displays, calibrating printers, making health-related measurements, and identifying paint colors for home projects, which would make the Apple Pencil even more versatile. It could be used for photorealistic paintings or just sampling of unique colors from grass, plants, existing art, and so much more.Īccording to the patent, the stylus would detect the color and then put it in a color palette in a drawing program, where the color could be assigned to a brush. With this kind of technology, Apple Pencil users would be able to do something like hold the Apple Pencil against an object in the real world, with the Apple Pencil reading the color. The stylus could also be equipped with a light to make it easier for the photodetectors to accurately determine a color, and the rest of the patent describes an Apple Pencil-like design with an elongated body, a tip, and an opposing end, with the tip able to work with a touch-sensitive display.Īpple says the color sensor functionality could be located at the end of the stylus, at the tip, or coupled to the tip through a light guide. The color sensor would be equipped with several photodetectors able to measure light for different color channels, which would let it detect and sample a color from a real world object, like a flower. Coming from a design background were very familiar with the eyedropper tool found on Adobe Photoshop, meet the Scribble Pen This color picker pen. Titled "Computer System With Color Sampling Stylus," the patent describes a computer stylus that "may have a color sensor." The smart sensor detects the color and matches it to the color display. The color picker pen enables colors in the environment to be scanned and instantly be in use for drawing.
Apple is exploring new Apple Pencil technology that could allow the device to sample colors from the real world to use in digital art, drawings, edits, and more, according to an Apple patent application published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office this week. Korean designer jinsu park designed a color picker pen that adopts the eyedropper tool of photoshop for real life.
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