Pioneer Electronic Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Akira Nagashima

Takashi Suzuki

Kenji Shimoda

Yoshihisa Sakazaki

Masashi Kawamoto

Masaaki Watanabe

Yoshio Minamide

Tadao Nuka

Takafumi Yuki

Akio Itoh

Tetsuo Nagoya

Motonori Satoh

Yuichi Mineo

A digital picture image signal recording method, in which by sequentially forming tracks on a tape recording medium running at a prescribed speed oblique to its running direction digital picture image signals compressed by a high efficiency encoding technique are recorded using rotary heads and at the same time, and then plural kinds of tracking pilot signals with different frequencies on adjacent tracks are recorded, the method comprises the steps of deriving data which are essential to decoding the recorded digital picture image signals from the high efficiency encoded digital signals, successively establishing record areas in unit of a number of tracks equivalent to a cycle period of the tracking pilot signals that can be distinguished by the pilot signal as one group, and recording data which are essential to the decoding in the recording areas.

Method and apparatus for recording digital picture image signals for

A removable panel has a plurality of operation buttons for operating a car stereo. A cellular telephone system operated by the operation buttons is provided in the panel. A controller is provided in the panel for rendering the car stereo inoperative in response to an instruction received through the cellular telephone system.

Car stereo having a removable panel

An on-vehicle mobile radio telephone with an answering function, has the capability to automatically change the phone mode to an answer mode even if an occupant forgets to set an answer mode switch when leaving a vehicle not shift from phone mode to the answer mode while the vehicle is in motion. The on-vehicle mobile radio telephone with an answering function includes a message recording device; a handset; a channel for relaying a call signal to the handset; a call detecting device for detecting a call through the channel to generate a call detect signal; and a control device for executing an automatic reception mode to connect the channel to the message recording device according to the call detect signal with an answer mode designated. The control device includes an accessory switch (ACC) detecting device for detecting whether an accessory switch of a vehicle is on or off, whereby the automatic reception mode is initiated when the accessory switch (ACC) detecting device detects that the accessory switch is off.

On-vehicle mobile radio telephone with an answering function

An audio system for a vehicle wherein the feeling of a passenger on the rear seat of the vehicle in listening to sound can be improved only by operation of a sound volume switch of a manually operating section without the necessity of operation of any other switch. A microcomputer detects an attenuation amount from an operating section and outputs to an equalizer, when the attenuation amount is lower than a predetermined value, a medium and high frequency sound region controlling signal for attenuating sound in the medium and high frequency sound regions in a substantially inversely proportional relationship at least to the attenuation amount. A plurality of rear loudspeakers receive the medium and high frequency sound region controlling signal from the equalizer and output sound of an attenuation information signal wherein sound in the medium and high frequency sound regions is attenuated.

Audio system for vehicle

An illumination control circuit for an on-vehicle apparatus having an optical remote control device. The circuit has a photoreceptor built in the remote control device that receives a light signal for remote control of the on-vehicle apparatus as well as the ambient visible light in a passenger space of the vehicle. The photoreceptor outputs signals corresponding to both the ambient light and the remote control light signal entering the photoreceptor. The output of the photoreceptor is supplied to a low-pass filter that passes a direct current component and frequency components below a predetermined frequency to an illumination controller, which in turn controls the illumination of the on-vehicle apparatus in accordance with the output of the low-pass filter.

Illumination control circuit using a photoreceptor built-in a remote

A burglarproof device includes an accessory switch detection circuit for detecting ON/OFF states of an accessory switch provided in a vehicle. An accessory switch detection signal is sent to an alarm generation circuit. The alarm generation circuit generates an alarm signal when the accessory switch is in an OFF state. This alarm signal alarms that a detachable electronic equipment adapted to be mounted in vehicles which has been mounted in a vehicle is actually attached to the vehicle. This alarm informs a driver that he forgets detachment of the electronic equipment adapted to be mounted in vehicles, thus preventing burglarly.

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Kawagoe, Japan

Akira Nagashima