Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Hideki Ohtaka

Tatsuro Juri

Masakazu Nishino

Chiyoko Matsumi

Takahiro Nakamura

Susumu Yamaguchi

Ryouichi Hoshiai

Shinya Kadono Kadono

Akira Iketani

Takayuki Nakamura

Chojuro Yamamitsu

Yoshio Sakakibara

Hideaki Mita

Hirofumi Uchida

Atsushi Hashimoto

Kazuhiko Kobayashi

Akifumi Ide

Makoto Mitsuda

Keishi Okamoto

Shozo Fujii

Kouji Matsushita

The image recording system is a system configured of first and second image recording apparatuses. The first image recording apparatus includes a device ID obtainment unit, a time information obtainment unit, a first channel information input unit, an identification information creation unit, a first image input unit, a first identification information addition unit, a first image recording unit, and an identification information sending unit. The second image recording apparatus includes an identification information receiving unit, a second channel information input unit, an identification information change unit, a second image input unit, a second identification information addition unit, and a second image recording unit.

Image recording system, image recording apparatus, and image recording method

Provided is a digital video recording system which can properly maintain a corresponding relationship between recorded data in two different kinds of formats which are generated from the same inputted video-audio data, even if those data are managed separately. In a case where the first file is generated as a main material file with a high resolution, and the second file is generated as a low-bitrate audio-video (AV) data file () with a low resolution, a CLIP-UMID () which is identification information unique to the first file is stored in a skip box () in the low-bitrate AV data file ().

Recording apparatus, editing apparatus, digital video recording system, and file format

In a digital signal recording and reproducing apparatus, a signal obtained by multiplexing an audio signal on a bit rate reduction encoded video signal is delivered as a transmission signal. The transmission signal is multiplexed with a data showing its content, such as a copy number of times data and an edit number of times data. Depending on the state of reproduction at a reproducing side apparatus, which is a source of transmission, a control data for controlling a recording side apparatus, which is a destination of transmission, is also multiplexed.

Method of transmitting digital video and audio signals between bit rate

In a digital signal recording and reproducing apparatus, a signal obtained by multiplexing an audio signal on a bit rate reduction encoded video signal is delivered as a transmission signal. The transmission signal is multiplexed with a data showing its content, such as a copy number of times data and an edit number of times data. Depending on the state of reproduction at a reproducing side apparatus, which is a source side of transmission, a control data for controlling a recording side apparatus, which is a destination of transmission, is also multiplexed.

In a digital signal recording and reproducing apparatus, a signal obtained by multiplexing an audio signal on a bit rate reduction encoded video signal is delivered as a transmission signal. The transmission signal is multiplexed with a data showing its content, such as a copy number of times data and an edit number of times data. Depending on the state of reproduction at a reproducing side apparatus, which is a source side of transmission, a control data for controlling a recording side apparatus, which is a destination of transmission is also multiplexed.

A helical scan type digital recording/reproducing apparatus arranged such that data corresponding to m fields/frames are divisionally recorded in n tracks on a magnetic tape and a slow, still or frame advance reproduction mode is effected in response to an instruction from an external input. The apparatus is equipped with a signal processing circuit coupled to a rotary head for inputting data reproduced from the magnetic tape by the rotary head to store the reproduced data in a memory. In response to the instruction for the slow, still or frame advance reproduction mode, the signal processing circuit outputs a control signal when the data corresponding to one or more frames/fields are stored in the memory. Also included is a servo circuit coupled through a signal line to the signal processing circuit to be responsive to the control signal from the signal processing circuit. The servo circuit controls a capstan motor in accordance with the control signal and the reproduction mode instruction.

Apparatus for recording/reproducing digital data on/from recording medium

A signal processing apparatus for use in a digital video signal reproducing apparatus for reproducing digital signal presented in sync blocks is disclosed. Each sync block has a fixed area for low frequency data and five subsequent sync blocks define a sharing group for sharing high frequency data. The signal processing apparatus includes an inner and outer correction circuit for correcting errors in the sync blocks. An error flag is provided to a sync block which still has an error remaining after the processing in the correction circuit. A memory is provided for storing errorless sync blocks of one frame. A substitution switch is provided for passing the errorless sync blocks, but substituting a sync block stored in the memory for a sync block still having some errors. Five sync blocks produced from the substitution switch are held in a delay. When no substitute sync block is detected in the five sync blocks in the delay, the data in the five sync blocks are decoded by a bit rate reduction decoder. But, when one to four substitute sync block is detected in the five sync blocks in the delay, only the low frequency data of the five sync blocks in the fixed area are decoded by the bit rate reduction decoder.

Digital VCR signal processing apparatus for concealing uncorrectable

Disclosed are a video signal recording apparatus for dividing digital video signal into blocks, transforming orthogonally, quantizing, coding in a variable length, and recording always in identical data quantity in a unit of specific number of blocks, and a video signal reproducing apparatus for decoding the recorded signal in variable length, quantizing inversely, transforming inversely and orthogonally, and reproducing the original digital video signal. The coding data in the specific number of blocks in the identical data quantity is divided in two code rows, the individual low frequency components are assigned to separate sync blocks, and high frequency components are also assigned to separate sync blocks, and recorded. When reproducing, if the sync block of high frequency components is wrong, it is possible to decode only with low frequency components, and the screen is reproduced at high fidelity to the reproducing speed at the time of high speed reproducing. By recording the position information indicating the boundary position between two code rows, or the concealment information showing the concealment state, even by variable length coding, the range of error concealment may be narrowed, and the effects of error may be minimized.

Apparatus for recording and reproducing band-compression coded video data

In a video signal digital magnetic recording and/or reproducing apparatus, an input image data array is rearranged into a different data array appropriate for data compression and then subjected to a data compression by variable length coding. The resulting data are rearranged after the data compression and then recorded sequentially onto a video track of a magnetic tape in the same order as that in the frame. In a high-speed playback mode, only the lower frequency component data is decoded every sync block, so that the data reproduced from one video track adjoin each other in the playback picture on the screen.

Video signal digital magnetic recording reproducing apparatus, with

In a digital video signal recording/reproducing apparatus for recording digital VCR video and audio signals by using a rotary cylinder, for a video signal with a frame frequency fN of 30 Hz or 29.97 Hz, the rotating frequency of the cylinder is set to 2.5 times fN. On the other hand, for a signal with a frame frequency fP of 25 Hz, the rotating frequency of the cylinder is set to 3.0 times fP. As a result, as long as the cylinder diameters are identical, the relative speed of the tape and the head is the same for video signals of either frame frequency fN or fP.

Digital video signal recording/reproducing apparatus

An information recording apparatus implements the orthogonal transformation for the input signal on a block-by-block basis, separates each variable-length coded word into a fixed part and separate part individually, records the fixed part into a record block which is established for each block of orthogonal component by starting from the beginning and ending at the prescribed position of the record block, and records coded words of the separate part into remaining portions of record blocks.

Information recording apparatus

In an encoder for selectively receiving, blocking and coding by orthogonal transformation an image A with a screen aspect ratio which is greater than 4:3 or an image B with a screen aspect ratio of 4:3, when the image A is entered, it is divided into a basic screen with an aspect ratio of 4:3 corresponding to a central portion of a screen and an additional screen other than the basic screen. Coding is controlled so that a sum of coded data quantity of a specified number of blocks m of orthogonal transformation of the basic screen and a specified number of blocks n of orthogonal transformation of the additional screen is within a specified data quantity x. When the image B is entered, the coding is controlled so that a coded data quantity of the same number of blocks of orthogonal transformation as the specified number of blocks of orthogonal transformation m of the basic screen of the image A is within the same data quantity as the specified data quantity x.

Video signal encoder capable of encoding video signal data of video

In recording and reproducing the digital video signals by bit rate reduction, if they are copied while being subjected to bit rate reduction, no accumulation of distortions in orthogonal transformation or bit rate reduction occurs, and moreover, copying can be done at a low data rate. On the other hand, in case of dividing the data into blocks in each page and transmitting or recording and reproducing the data by block, by concealing the error by the data having the strongest correlation out of the data located in the pages before and after the block in which error has been detected, no degradation in image quality is induced even when the scene changes between pages. Further, at the same time, by detecting the previous concealment information, if there exists a block which was previously concealed in the block in which error has at present been detected, then the data can be fully reproduced by utilizing it, and degradation in image quality can be reduced to a minimum. Also, if degradation in image quality is reduced to a minimum, then the degradation in image quality in the case of repeated copying is reduced to a minimum.

Digital video signal recording and reproducing apparatus having an error

A video signal digital recording and reproducing apparatus includes: a rearranging section for rearranging a sequence of signals on a rectangular unit by rectangular unit basis formed by sectioning a group of pixel data on a screen of a digital video signal; an encoding section for subjecting the signals in the rectangular units to bit rate reduction; a block forming section for gathering plural number of the coded rectangular units to constitute a block of signals, and a recording the block of signals section for recording on a recording medium. The rearranging section divides the screen into plural regions, takes out the rectangular units by a certain number in order from each region, and carries out rearrangement so that mutually corresponding rectangular units which are contained respectively in adjacent blocks on the recording medium are mutually adjacent on the screen. The recording section is constituted so that the blocks signals are recorded simultaneously in parallel on the recording medium by using plural channels. The rearranging section may have such a constitution that the screen is divided into plural regions and the rectangular units are taken out by a certain number in order from each region, and rearrangement is carried out to that mutually corresponding rectangular units which are contained respectively in adjacent or neighboring blocks to be simultaneously recorded in parallel by the plural channels on the recording section are mutually adjacent on the screen.

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