Method and device for the detection of local displacements and rotations

In a method for the detection of local displacements and rotations, a sum signal and additionally a difference signal are formed from two separately generated signals of two transducer elements (W 1 , W 2 ), which are spaced from each other, and subsequently the formed sum signal and the formed difference signal are OR-operated. A device for doubling the local frequency of moving incremental scales comprises an encoder ( 1 a, 1 b, 1 c ), a magnetically sensitive transducer ( 9, 13 ), and a signal conditioning stage ( 6 a, 6 b ) electrically connected thereto. The transducer comprises at least two sensorially active functional groups synchronously using sensorially active groups or sub-groups (W 1 , W 2 ) which are locally offset in relation to each other by a local phase φ in order to scan the moving scale, and the functional groups comprise means enabling at least two independent partial signals S 1 =V*sin(ωt) and S 2 =−V*sin(ωt)+φ) to be produced.