Patent ID: 7937237

Claim:
A method for recognizing a sensor type, the method performed by a program of computer instructions embodied in non-transitory computer-readable media and executable by a processing unit and comprising the following steps: Checking, by the processing unit, a first condition that will have been met if a measuring signal of a sensor exceeds a first threshold, Checking, by the processing unit, a second condition if the first condition has been met, with the second condition having been met if a gradient of the measuring signal is greater in amount than a predefined second threshold, Determining, by the processing unit, whether or not the sensor is a signal-value-range multiplex output type sensor, wherein a signal-value-range multiplex output type sensor comprises a type of sensor that measures at least two different parameters having non-overlapping ranges of signal values and outputs the measurements of the at least two different parameters in a multiplexed manner, including: recognizing the sensor as a signal-value-range multiplex output type sensor if the first and second conditions have been met, and recognizing the sensor as not a signal-value-range multiplex output type sensor if at least one of the first and second conditions has not been met.