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Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2025

Filed:

Sep. 22, 2022
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Savas Gider, San Jose, CA (US);

Jian Guo, Milpitas, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 35/00 (2006.01); G01R 33/07 (2006.01); G01R 33/09 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 35/005 (2013.01); G01R 33/07 (2013.01); G01R 33/09 (2013.01);
Abstract

A hybrid Hall/MR magnetometer with self-calibration includes a circuit coupled to a magnetometer and configured to determine whether the magnetometer is to operate in a sensing operation mode or a self-calibration operation mode. The magnetometer comprises a Hall sensor and MR sensor coupled to the circuit. In accordance with determining a sensing operation mode, the Hall sensor is turned off and the MR sensor is turned on; and an external magnetic field is measured using the MR sensor. The magnetic field measurement is calibrated using a MR sensor bias error determined in a self-calibration operation mode of the sensor.


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