Apple's new Apple Pencil patent exposure: fruit powder or usher in the stylus with the iPhone

For the Samsung Note series to introduce a stylus into a smartphone, Apple founder Steve Jobs has repeatedly expressed his hate of the stylus.It is astonishing that this once hated by Steve jobs may appear in the Its proud iPhone product.


Apple's new Apple Pencil patent exposure: fruit powder or usher in the stylus with the iPhone

Today, the United States Patent and Trademark Office recently released a new patent, 'POSITION-BASED STYLUS COMMUNICATION', which Apple filed in mid-May, meaning that the iPhone supports the Apple Pencil on its way.

The patent itself, a fairly technical patent, is an effective way of identifying the position of a pencil on a touch screen. In the description of the use of this method, we learned that the device first needs to recognize the approximate position of the landing point , Then activate the smaller sensor in the area to ensure the accuracy required for the pencil.


Apple's new Apple Pencil patent exposure: fruit powder or usher in the stylus with the iPhone

The touch sensing system may perform one or more coarse segmentation of the input device to determine the approximate location of the input device.This location may be used to select one or more touch sensors (or sensor channels) for decoding input device stimuli Signal from the input device during one or more fine input device segmentation sweeps, the touch sensing system may determine the precise location of the input device and, in the input device sampled from the selected touch sensor (or sensor channel) Decode data.

Although this patent discusses in a generic way how to use a stylus on a touch-screen device, several of these design samples can be instantly identified as iphones, one of which is even specifically labeled as a cellphone.


Apple's new Apple Pencil patent exposure: fruit powder or usher in the stylus with the iPhone

It is worth mentioning that this is not the first time the Apple iPhone has been exposed and Apple Pencil-related patents.In August this year, the U.S. Patent Office announced the disclosure of Apple's Apple Pencil on how to describe the new patent on the iPhone. , Apple introduced iPhone with Apple Pencil should be a matter of its own.

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