Apple desires to make it simple to enter hand-drawn Calendar occasions with an Apple Pencil.
The corporate has been granted a patent (quantity US 11907446 B2) for “Units And Strategies For Creating Calendar Occasions Primarily based On Hand-drawn Inputs At An Digital Gadget With A Contact-sensitive Show.” elates typically to digital gadgets with touch-sensitive surfaces, together with however not restricted to digital gadgets with touch-sensitive surfaces that manipulate person interfaces with styluses.
In regards to the patent
Within the patent Apple says that person interfaces will be manipulated with both finger or stylus inputs, although finger inputs are extra frequent than stylus inputs, partly as a result of present strategies that use styluses are cumbersome and inefficient. Apple desires to offer extra environment friendly strategies for manipulating person interfaces with a stylus. Such strategies optionally complement or exchange typical strategies for manipulating person interfaces with a stylus, in accordance with the tech large.
Abstract of the patent
Right here’s Apple’s summary of the patent: “An digital gadget with a touch-sensitive show shows an digital calendar and detects a hand-drawn enter on the touch-sensitive show. The hand-drawn enter extends over a vertical portion, lower than all, of an space similar to a primary day within the calendar. In response to detecting the hand-drawn enter, the gadget shows, over the vertical portion of the primary day, a number of graphics that correspond to the hand-drawn enter.
“Whereas displaying the graphics, the gadget detects an enter that corresponds to a request to create an occasion within the digital calendar. In response, the gadget creates, within the first day within the digital calendar, an occasion with a begin time and an finish time, whereby the beginning time and the top time of the occasion are in accordance with the primary day that the hand drawn enter extends over.”
