Apple Pencil Patent Shows Magic Trackpad Support, Gaming Joystick Ability And More

The Apple Pencil was released alongside the gigantic 12.9-inch iPad Pro. Since then, the accompaniment had assisted many artists and designers in fulfilling their piece of work needs. Withal, Apple tree does non rest on a single product for a long time, upgrading information technology with additional features to increase its utility. At present, Apple has filed a patent, published past the United states Patent and Trademark Office, that indicates sure changes and back up for the adjacent generation Magic Trackpad. Let's run into what the Apple Pencil patent has to offer.

Apple tree Pencil Patent Shows Side by side-Gen Magic Trackpad Support And More

Generally, we tin conclude that the Apple Pencil and the Magic Trackpad will work together for drawing and other such purposes. This will open a new niche for the Apple tree Pencil to work on Macs. The patent likewise highlights how Apple is working to make the Apple Pencil detect air-gestures. This will exist used to navigate presentation slides in Keynotes, MS Word and PowerPoint.

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The patent describes the Apple Pencil as a ''Stylus'' and also mentions that it can too be used as a joystick to play games. This can exist accomplished by integrating the ''stylus'' with a three and six axis sensor.

The inertial sensor allows the stylus to operate as a joystick, a rotational controller, or other input devices in addition to serving as a touch sensor input device. For case, on-screen content may be rotated, tilted, or otherwise manipulated using rotational controller and joystick input from the inertial sensor every bit noted below in patent FIG. seven below in conjunction with a next-gen version of Apple'south Magic Trackpad.

The patent application also mentions that the Apple tree Pencil can be used in GarageBand to create different types of music. It will act as a drum stick by using the motility data received from the Apple Pencil. Other than this, the same mechanism will exist used to brand the Pencil a gong beater and other instruments.

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This is non a new patent by Apple as it was filed back in Q4 of 2022. It'south not similar Apple will hold its patent forever because judging by the past trends, the visitor has indeed turned some of its patents into reality. And then it might not be long enough for the new Apple Pencil with additional features to make a debut.

This is it for now, folks. What exercise you remember about this Apple Pencil patent? Practise you call back using the Apple Pencil as a joystick to play games is a good thought? Let us know in the comments.

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