Patent 10386170 was granted and assigned to TDK on August, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An angle sensor includes detection units and an angle computation unit. The detection units detect a composite magnetic field of a magnetic field to be detected and a noise magnetic field. Each detection unit generates a first detection signal representing the strength of a component in a first direction of the composite magnetic field, and a second detection signal representing the strength of a component in a second direction of the composite magnetic field. The angle computation unit generates a detected angle value by performing computations using a plurality of pairs of first and second detection signals generated at the detection units wherein an error of the detected angle value resulting from the noise magnetic field is made smaller than in the case of generating the detected angle value on the basis of only a pair of first and second detection signals generated at any one of the detection units.