Apple has filed a patent for an Apple Pencil stylus that can identify and digitally replicate colors and textures from real-world objects. Patently Apple spotted the application last week (which ...

Images in the patent show the ‌Apple Pencil‌ may come with a built-in light ambient sensor, light emitter, and a light detector that can detect the color and texture of a surface.

According to MacRumors, Apple had first filed for a similar color sampling feature more than two years ago — in June 2020 — and the feature is yet to make it to the Apple Pencil.

On the other hand, we haven’t gotten a new Apple Pencil since 2018, several years before the company secured both color-sensing patents. With the two patents in-hand, it’s possible that a new ...

That said, with the Apple Pencil 2 now over four years old – it launched in November 2018 – the line is due for a fresh entry, and a color-sensing model would offer iPad owners a solid reason ...

On Saturday, June 14, the Colored Pencil Society of America opened their 33rd annual international juried exhibition at the ...