Patent ID: 6931317

Claim:
A method for determining a correction value for a measured segment time, which a shaft of an internal combustion engine needs in order to rotate about a defined angular range, comprising the step of: in determining the correction value, the following relationship is evaluated: AZ n =[( TG n −TG 0 )−( n/z )*( TG 0′ −TG 0 )]/[ TG 0 +( n/z )*( TG 0′ −TG 0 )] wherein z is the number of cylinders of the internal combustion engine, n is the number of the cylinder currently under consideration, TG n is the measured segment time of the cylinder with the number n, TG 0 is the measured segment time of a reference segment of a reference cylinder, TG 0′ is the segment time of the reference segment of the reference cylinder measured two crankshaft rotations after the segment time TG 0 , and AZ n is a correction value for the segment time of the cylinder with the number n.