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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 27, 2006
Friedrich Geck, Mt. Airy, MD (US);
Matthew G. Liberty, Potomac, MD (US);
Mark Turner, Ijamsville, MD (US);
Friedrich Geck, Mt. Airy, MD (US);
Matthew G. Liberty, Potomac, MD (US);
Mark Turner, Ijamsville, MD (US);
Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc., Rockville, MD (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods according to exemplary embodiments address, among other features, the area of calibrating a sensor using a constant vector field. In one exemplary embodiment, a method for calibrating a sensor includes the steps of placing the sensor in a cube, rotating the cube between a plurality of different orientations, collecting at least one reading from the sensor from each of the plurality of different orientations and calibrating the sensor using the collected readings.