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Yes, you read it right, a future Apple Watch could be able to automatically adapt its watch face to match your clothes and its watch band. How? Well, it’s not as complicated as it may seem, but it would be cool to see.
Future Apple Watch could be able to match its watch face colors to your clothes
Apple seems to be considering adding color sampling sensors to its future Apple Watch devices, Apple Insider reports. The publication got this info from a patent Apple submitted.
The patent submitted to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is titled “Electronic Devices with Color Sampling Sensors”. Those light sensors would be placed under the display, and be able to figure out the colors of surrounding objects.
Apple goes even further to explain things. An optical sensor, such as a camera, proximity sensor, ambient light sensor, fingerprint sensor, and other light-based under-screen sensors can sample colors by emitting a sequence of red, green, and blue lights towards external objects.
Apple’s algorithm would take information from the sensors and do the job
Following that, the watch would run a band-specific algorithm and match colors with a predetermined list of watch band colors. A clothing-specific algorithm would do the same with your clothing.
That sure is interesting, as it would be an automatic process. Many people would find this cool, probably, even though it’s a bit gimmicky at the same time. It would be a seamless process, as you wouldn’t really need to lift a finger. Your watch face would always match your band and/or clothes.
Do note that this is just a patent, for now. Chances are this won’t become a reality anytime soon, but it could, at some point. We’ll have to wait and see. Companies do submit tons of patents every year, but only a small percentage of them turn into actual products, so… we’ll see.