Patent ID: 6897648

Claim:
System for detecting and transmitting position information, comprising: first and second sensors for detecting a position of a control element, an electronic processing unit connected to said and second sensor by way of first and second electric signal lines, respectively, wherein the position informational is converted into electronic signals by said first and second sensors and transmitted by said sensors by way of said first and second electric signal lines, wherein said signal carried on said first electric line is lower resolution than the signal carried on the second electric line, wherein said electronic processing unit includes means for adopting different operation conditions, with the operating conditions differing from one another by a different rate of energy consumption, wherein said means for adopting further includes means coupled to the first and second signal lines for assuming active or restrictedly active modes in a state with low energy consumption, and wherein the means for assuming further includes wake-up means by which the processing unit may be set to a state with higher energy consumption.