One of the keys to Apple Pencil for continuing to get holders is that feeling use it with the iPad as close as you can to using pencil and real paper. In this case, Apple has used for example constructive recognition or a minimum of retention. Next thing? The patent shows the idea of using haptic responses in pencil.
Moments of imitation of the thickness of the paper
Haptic inputs are one of the most underrated features of Apple devices. Thanks to Taptic Engine Vibration Engine for iPhone or Apple Watch among others produce small scale movements that mimic real products. The feeling is great and can make us believe for example that we are pressing the actual buttons. Can you make us think we are using a real pencil?
One of Apple's most recent patents recently published in the US Patent and Trademark Office proposes this idea. It will basically be about putting the Taptic Engine inside the Apple Pencil capable vibrate to imitate the pencil strike in the text area rough (ie paper).
This can be combined with another feature of the Apple Pencil, which is for the ability to sense the pressure. Thanks to energy sensors, the pencil knows when we press too hard or too hard on the screen to make strokes of various sizes and sizes. The idea would be to combine this information with a haptic engine to get real vibration responses as far as possible.
The Apple Pencil has recently been updated once since its inception in 2015. It does not have a short update cycle like other Apple devices, so when it is updated it should make some major changes. I will not be excluded from the possibility that in the next renewal we have something like that in the case shown in this patent.
Via | USPTO
