Absrtact: According to AppleInsider, USPTO has just passed an Apple patent on a stylus. A new stylus can capture the user's handwriting on different surfaces, including paper, Whiteboard, or even the ipad's capacitive touch screen, while not written on an electronic screen.
According to AppleInsider, USPTO has just passed an Apple patent on a stylus. The new stylus captures the user's handwriting on different surfaces, including paper, whiteboard and even the ipad's capacitive touch screen, while the writing on the non electronic screen can be transferred to digital devices via wireless communication hardware and storage devices.
The Apple stylus is based on an accelerometer and other motion-sensing hardware. When you pick up an Apple stylus and press the tip onto the paper, its tracking function will be activated. After that, the sensor tracks changes relative to the initial 0 points and sends a conversion of real-time data to the device, after which your handwriting is displayed on the iOS device screen.
In addition, Apple allows the user to store a certain amount of data in the stylus, which is then transmitted continuously or at intervals to the device at the time of booking. This allows the user to reproduce the previous writing process with the stylus. For example, in the classroom, the teacher can repeatedly show the students a mathematical formula deduction. In addition, it also transmits data to multiple devices to meet more usage scenarios such as meeting minutes.
Apple's ideas are no longer new, and Livescribe has launched a similar product, "Smartpen", which captures the user's writing trajectory via a camera and transmits it to other electronic devices via Bluetooth. However, Livescribe's smartpen is not able to support different writing materials, it also needs special paper.
Apple's research into the stylus has been around for four years, and some patents on the stylus have been applied to the new ipad and iphone for the first time in 2010. Now this new message, let's look forward to the upcoming 12.9-inch IPad Pro.