Future Apple Watches might allow you to handwrite on their screens as evidenced by a newly granted Apple patent (quantity US 11941243 B2) for a “Handwriting Keyboard for Screens.”
Concerning the patent
The patent relates typically to pc person interfaces, and extra particularly to methods for handwriting on small screens. Within the patent Apple notes that wearable digital units such because the Apple Watch typically have show screens for displaying info and permitting for a minimal quantity of interface with the digital gadget and content material saved thereon.
Apple provides that a few of these wearable units embrace contact delicate surfaces, however the screens are of such small measurement that it’s troublesome to enter textual content on the gadget immediately. Different strategies of knowledge entry, corresponding to dictation are doable however have downsides as nicely. Within the case of messaging, predefined messages are of some use for are solely acceptable when one of many restricted variety of predefined messages applies the present state of affairs.
Apple says that some methods for handwriting on small screens “are typically cumbersome and inefficient.” The tech large’s patent includes methods that present digital units such because the Apple Watch with sooner, extra environment friendly strategies and interfaces for handwriting on small screens.
Abstract of the patent
Right here’s Apple’s summary of the patent: “The current disclosure typically pertains to handwriting on contact delicate surfaces. In some examples, textual content recommendations strokes entered on a contact delicate floor are considered and chosen in response to a rotatable enter mechanism. In some examples, textual content decided from a set of strokes on the contact delicate floor is revised based mostly on a subsequently entered stroke on the contact delicate floor. In some examples, a willpower is made whether or not to incorporate a stroke in a set of strokes based mostly a time between the stroke and the earlier stroke. In some examples, figuring out textual content based mostly on a set of stroke is interrupted to decided revised textual content based mostly on the set of strokes and a second stroke.”
