A future Apple Watch might reply to differing quantities of pressure utilized on its Digital Crown. Apple has been granted a patent (quantity US 11963795 B2) for “Sensing Contact Power Associated To Consumer Sporting An Digital Machine.”
In regards to the patent
The patent pertains to sensing the pressure utilized to a wearable digital machine by a consumer’s physique half when a consumer is carrying it. Such units might embody a wide range of parts. For instance, wearable digital units might embody enter units {that a} consumer can manipulate by contact.
Additionally, wearable digital units might embody numerous sensors, reminiscent of sensors which may be used to detect details about the consumer. Apple’s concept is for a smartwatch that may sense how a lot pressure is utilized to its Digital Crown. Differing quantities of pressure might: trigger the watch band to tighten, apps to launch, and extra.
Abstract of the patent
Right here’s Apple’s summary of the patent: “A wearable digital machine features a physique, a housing element, a band operable to connect the physique to a physique a part of a consumer, and a pressure sensor coupled to the housing element. The pressure sensor is operable to provide a pressure sign based mostly on a pressure exerted between the physique a part of the consumer and the housing element.
“A processing unit of the wearable digital machine receives the pressure sign from the pressure sensor and determines the pressure exerted on the housing element based mostly thereon. The processing unit might use that pressure to find out a tightness of the band, decide well being data for the consumer, modify decided pressure exerted on a canopy glass, and/or to carry out numerous different actions.”
