Apple Invents an Advanced Ring System with Four Types of Functionality covering Cursor movement, Paint, Pencil & Trackpad Modes
Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to an advanced smart ring system that could work with an iMac, MacBook, or iPad, especially an iPad Pro when connected to a Smart Keyboard. The ring works in four modes covering cursor movement, paint brush, pencil and trackpad modes.
Apple's patent relates to finger-wearable input assemblies and methods for using finger-wearable input assemblies (rings) for controlling an electronic device.
A cuboid or cylindrical housing of an assembly may define a hollow passageway in which one finger of a user's hand may be positioned for wearing the assembly, while other fingers of the hand may provide touch user inputs to various touch sensor input components provided on an exterior of the housing about the passageway.