Identification of Faulty Sensing Elements in Sensing Element Arrays

摘要

A sensing element array comprises a plurality of sensing elements. The sensing elements are connected to a processing unit operable to process the signals output by the sensing elements and a motion sensor operable to determine whether or not the array is in motion and output a signal indicative thereof to the processing unit. The processing unit determines whether the motion detected is suitable for identifying faulty sensing elements. If it is determined that the motion detected is suitable, the processing unit implements a faulty sensing element identification algorithm.