Teac Corporation

Kokusai Denshin Denwa Co., Ltd.

Hirohisa Yamaguchi

Akira Mashimo

Tadao Nagai

Masahiro Wada

Yasuji Morioka

Hideo Yamamoto

Kazuo Yamada

Kenichi Sato

Akinori Mawatari

Yoshiaki Aoyama

Hiroshi Usami

Tsutomu Miyasato

Masanori Wakamiya

Horoshi Usami

Hiroyuki Hoshino

Tetsuhisa Okayama

Satoshi Uchiumi

Kenji Nakamura

An addition unit adds information for managing a plurality of image-data files to directory information packets. A managing unit utilizes the added information for managing the plurality of image-data files. A retrieving unit retrieves, in accordance with an input retrieving information, a desired image-data file from among the plurality of image-data files recorded on a recording medium. An image-data input and output interfacing unit interfaces for input and output of image-data files. A recording-medium interfacing unit interfaces for information input and output by means of the recording medium. An output video-signal producing unit produces a video signal for output, the producing being effected by converting the retrieved image-data file into a corresponding analog video signal and using the analog video signal as the video signal for output. A signal combining unit combines the video signal for output, the combining being executed with a retrieval video signal, the video signal for output having been output from the output video-signal producing unit, and the retrieval video signal having been obtained by converting the input retrieving information into a corresponding analog video signal then used as the retrieval video signal. A microcomputer carries out the above functions.

Image filing apparatus and method for storing image data and directory

A set of displays are juxtaposed for jointly reproducing, either in still or in continuous motion, successive sets of correlated scenes according to a desired, and readily modifiable, presentation program. The correlated scenes to be reproduced by the displays are retrieved by video disk players from a set of video disks each having a multiplicity of individually addressable record tracks. A system controller is provided which has a rewritable memory for storing a presentation program including the addresses of desired record tracks on each video disks from which the prerecorded scenes are to be retrieved by one associated disk player in a desired sequence, and playback commands indicative of whether the prerecorded scenes on the desired record tracks are to be reproduced in still or in continuous motion. The system controller reads the presentation program on the memory for controlling the disk players according to the presentation program, causing each disk player to retrieve the prerecorded scenes from the desired record tracks on one associated video disk in the desired sequence, for reproduction on one of the displays either in still or in continuous motion as dictated by the presentation program. The presentation program is therefore readily modifiable by rewriting on the memory.

Multiple display presentation system capable of sequencing prerecorded

One or more, normally three, cathode ray tube displays are juxtaposed for simultaneous reproduction of correlated pictorial and literal images, either in continuous motion or in still, from two or more video disk players in which prerecorded video disks are to be loaded replaceably. A programmable system controller controls the operations of the disk players in accordance with a predefined program. As one of the disk players sequentially retrieves the prerecorded pictures from the associated video disk, an address detector circuit detects the successive disk tracks from which the pictures are being retrieved. Constantly informed of the current track address on that disk, the system controller causes the other disk player or players to retrieve desired pictures from preselected tracks on the other video disk or disks loaded therein.

Visual presentation system employing two or more video disk players for

A data copying method comprises the steps of checking a starting track address and an end track address which are used for controlling a copying of a data from each set of several recorded tracks in a master disk to a slave disk having several unrecorded tracks only so as to store the starting track address and the end track address for each of the recorded tracks, reproducing the data from each of the recorded tracks in the master disk repeatedly for each recorded track to supply a reproduced data signal from the data, and recording and reproducing data signal onto the slave disk at its track addresses corresponding to those addresses of the recorded tracks in the master disk repeatedly for each recorded track in the master disk storage medium, the recording of the reproduced data onto the slave disk being stopped at track addresses of the slave disk corresponding to those addresses of the unrecorded tracks in the master disk.

Data copying method for disk storage medium

One or more, preferably three, cathode ray tube displays are juxtaposed for simultaneous reproduction of correlated picture signals from video disk players or the like. Each disk player is connected to one of the displays via a serial connection of two frame memories each capable of storing the successive frames of a picture signal one at a time. A wipe control circuit is connected to the latter stage frame memories for causing a wiping change from old to new scenes to take place on the displays in any selected one of several different wipe modes. Upon commencement of a wiping scene change, the wipe control circuit first freezes the latter stage frame memories, thereby retaining the last frames of the old scenes thereon, and gradually replaces the last frames of the old scenes on the latter stage frame memories with the first frames of new scenes from the preceding stage frame memories. A wiping change from the old to the new scenes takes place on the displays as the latter stage frame memories are repeatedly read during the gradual repalcement of the last frames of the old scenes with the first frames of the new scenes.

Visual presentation system providing for a wiping change from one scene

A drop-out detection circuit which supplies an output signal indicative of a drop-out within information reproduced from a storage medium, when a rectangular wave signal produced from a modulated signal carrying the reproduced information does not supply a trigger pulse within a prescribed pulse duration. The drop-out detection circuit comprises a first pulse generation part for supplying a first pulse signal having a low level for a prescribed pulse duration when the rectangular wave signal changes from a low level to a high level, a second pulse generation part for supplying a second pulse signal having a low level for the prescribed pulse duration when the rectangular wave signal changes from the high level to the low level, and a logic gate for outputting the output signal having a high-level pulse supplied only when the first pulse signal and the second pulse signal both having the high level is supplied for a time period exceeding the prescribed pulse duration. The drop-out detection circuit can detect the drop-out within the reproduced information accurately, without being affected by a change in the ambient temperature and a fluctuation of the frequency of the modulated signal.

Drop-out detection circuit

Parallel signal processing system

A distortion eliminating circuit for eliminating a harmonic distortion from an input frequency modulated luminance signal comprises a comparator for producing a series of output pulses responsive to the input frequency modulated luminance signal by comparing the level of the frequency modulated luminance signal with a predetermined level, a filtering circuit for extracting a d.c. component from the series of output pulses by filtering out oscillating components from said output pulses, a detecting circuit for extracting a d.c. distortion component corresponding to the harmonic distortion in the input frequency modulated luminance signal by comparing the level of the d.c. component by a reference level, and a level adjusting circuit for adjusting the level of the input frequency modulated luminance signal by adding or subtracting the d.c. distortion component to the input frequency modulated luminance signal and for supplying the input frequency modulated luminance signal having a level now thus adjusted to the comparator.

Distortion eliminating circuit

An optical tracking control apparatus comprises a differential amplifier for differentially amplifying signals respectively reproduced from two mutually adjacent track turns of a guide track on both sides of an intermediate part in which an information signal is recorded and reproduced on and from a disc, a zero crossing detector for detecting a zero crossing of an output signal of the differential amplifier and for producing a switching pulse signal, and a polarity inverting circuit responsive to the switching pulse signal for alternately inverting the polarity of a crosstalk component reproduced from the two mutually adjacent track turns of the guide track as crosstalk for every one-half period of the switching pulse signal. An output signal of the polarity inverting circuit is used as a tracking error signal for controlling the tracking of the light beam.

Optical tracking control apparatus for controlling a tracking of a light

An information recording disc has a control signal such as an address signal pre-recorded on a guide track which is pre-formed on the information recording disc at a position different from a track position where an information signal is to be recorded. An information signal recording apparatus for recording the information signal on such an information recording dics controls a rotation frequency of the information recording disc to a constant rotation frequency by locking a horizontal synchronizing signal within a composite video signal to edges of pulses reproduced from the guide track, and the information signal is recorded on the information recording disc so that a recording interval of the control signal is positioned within a vertical blanking period of the information signal at least including the composite video signal.

Information recording disc and information signal recording apparatus

A disc variation detecting apparatus comprises a light-sensitive element which faces the disc and is positioned together with a light-emitting element in a tangential direction of tracks on the disc. In this configuration, the following relationship is satisfied; d/L.ltoreq..beta./.alpha., where d is a width of a spot of the light beam in its displacement direction formed on the light-sensitive element, L is a length of the light-sensitive element in the displacement direction, .alpha. is an angular variation of the disc corrsponding to the length L, and .beta. is an allowable error angle range upon attitude control of a pickup.

Disc attitude variation detecting apparatus

A method and apparatus for assembling an information signal on a rotary recording medium comprising a pre-recorded track recorded with pre-recorded information signals and an unrecorded track not recorded with information signals by use of a light beam in which an information signal to be newly recorded on the rotary recording medium is recorded continuously from the pre-recorded information signal already recorded on the pre-recorded track. The apparatus by use of a light beam searches for a pre-recorded track turn which is a portion of the pre-recorded track immediately preceding the unrecorded track and continuously reproduces the information signal from the searched pre-recorded track turn as it waits for a command signal commanding the recording of the information signal to be recorded. Responsive to the command signal, the apparatus terminates the repetition of the reproducing operation of the searched track turn and commences the recording on the unrecorded track turn following the searched pre-recorded track turn.

Method and apparatus for recording an information signal on a rotary

Moving picture signal transmission system

A disc inclination detecting apparatus comprises a light-emitting element for projecting a light beam on a disc and a light-sensitive element for receiving a reflected light beam reflected by the disc and outputting a corresponding electric signal, in which the light-sensitive element faces the disc and is positioned together with the light-emitting element in a tangential direction of tracks on the disc. The apparatus also comprises a signal processing circuit for detecting, on the basis of the electric signal, a variation of a position of the reflected light beam on the light-sensitive element in a direction perpendicular to the tangential direction. The variation corresponds to an inclination angle of the disc.

Disc inclination detecting apparatus

A disc comprises a recording surface which is divided into a plurality of equiangular sectoral regions and a guide track formed on the recording surface. Each track turn of the guide track is constituted by a row of pits formed in every other equiangular sectoral regions, and the pit is only formed in one of two mutually adjacent track turns of the guide track in each equiangular sectoral region so that the pits are formed in every other track turns in a radial direction of the disc in each equiangular sectoral region. An apparatus for playing the disc comprises a circuit for producing a switching pulse signal having a period dependent on a period of the pits of the guide track based on signals which are reproduced from the two mutually adjacent track turns by sub light beams, a circuit for alternately inverting a polarity of signals which are reproduced from the two mutually adjacent track turns by a main light beam for every one half period of the switching pulse signal and for generating a tracking error signal, a tracking device, and a device for recording and reproducing an information signal on and from an intermediate part of the disc between the two mutually adjacent track turns.

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Hirohisa Yamaguchi