Starting back almost a decade, Apple filed for patents related to an Apple Ring including one for a ring that included a camera, and one for a ring that had NFC support to help control mobile payments.
The patent focused on the use of gestures to navigate the features of the Apple Ring. With that in mind, the patent explains how the Apple Ring can detect the relationship between a finger (or fingers wearing multiple rings) and other parts of the body in order to understand gestures being used by the Apple Ring wearer. The patent showed how the smart ring can respond to pinching, sliding, and snapping fingers.
The Apple Ring wearer can use a finger to draw in the palm of another hand while wearing an Apple Watch which suggests that an Apple Ring can be used to run Apple’s smartwatch.
Patent shows that the Apple Ring can play Rock, Paper, Scissors. Image credit-Gizchina
