Patent ID: 9197440
Filing Date: 2015-11-24
Classification: H03K,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for controlling a sensor system for a vehicle, having at least one or two sensors which each comprise detection areas, and detect changes in these detection areas by means of measurement, and relay these changes as measurement signals, having a control device, which can be designed in the form of a microprocessor and includes only one microprocessor and which is connected to the sensors, the sensors being configured as capacitive sensors, wherein the control device evaluates each measurement signal and generates at least one control signal therefrom, having at least one storage device in which at least the most recent control signal is saved, and having an interface by means of which the control device relays at least the most recent control signal to an external control module to control the operation of a vehicle device, wherein at least one measurement signal of a sensor is detected in multiple measurement steps by the control device, and in that the control device transmits at least the most recent control signal to the external control module via the interface, between the individual measurement steps, wherein the control device checks whether a request signal of the external control module for an answer signal is present at the interface following one or each measurement step, wherein a time span for a measurement step is smaller than a pre-specified answer time span of the external control module.