Patent 8948280 was granted and assigned to Infineon Technologies on February, 2015 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method for determining a clock for a sensor signal which has a synchronization signal, which method involves a control unit measuring the period between a first edge and a second edge of the synchronization signal, wherein both edges are either rising or falling, and the control unit taking the period as a basis for determining a clock for sampling data in the sensor signal.