Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Hiromi Nakase

Hiroshi Taniguchi

Kanji Kubo

Kuniichi Ozawa

Yasuhiro Gotoh

Hiroyuki Matsuda

Yasuhiro Goto

Wataru Masuda

Toshiyuki Kohri

Mitsunobu Furumoto

Akiyuki Noda

Shinji Takemoto

Yukio Shimamura

Katsuyuki Taguchi

Shinya Yukino

A pickupgenerates a video signal based on an arbitrarily set frame rate. A frame rate converterconverts a frame rate of the video signal output from the pickupinto a predetermined frame rate. Frame rate conversion information output unitsandoutput information on frame rate conversion in a manner corresponding to a video signal after the frame rate conversion.

Image pickup apparatus with frame rate conversion information output

In the optical disc apparatus according to the present invention, the CPUis operated to execute a control program stored in the ROMto calculate a reproduction time at the time point when the power supply was turned off based on parameters after reading out from the DRAMthe parameters at the time point when the power supply was turned off. The CPUis then operated to execute the control program stored in the ROMto produce a control signal to have a display unit, not shown, display the reproduction time thus calculated, and calculate a reproduction position at the time point when the power supply was turned off based on parameters indicative of the address number and produce a control signal to have the reproduction of the reproduction information such as, for example, audio data and image data resumed.

Optical disc apparatus

An optical recording and reproducing apparatus records the audio and video signals to an optical disk by dividing the audio and video signals for one frame into top and bottom audio and video signal components. The top and bottom audio signal component are recorded to a predetermined track on disk sides A and B referenced to the rotation position detection information preformatted thereon, respectively. A mode set panel produces a mode signal for switching the operating mode. A mode determiner produces the head operation mode signal for determining the operating mode of the optical heads based on the signal. Top and bottom heads record and reproduce audio and video signals to or from the two sides A and B, respectively. Top and bottom vertical synchronization mark generators produce the vertical synchronization marks from the sector of the optical disk preformatted for recording and reproducing audio and video signals. Head actuators drive the pickup. The top head operating mode determiner, to which the operating mode data and the vertical synchronization mark signal are input, determines the operating mode of the top optical head. The bottom head mode determiner, to which the operating mode data and the bottom vertical synchronization mark signal are input, determines the operating mode of the bottom optical head.

Optical recording and reproducing apparatus having discrete optical

A tracking control device and a magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus including the tracking control device, the tracking control device comprising means for detecting track data recorded on a recording track tracking determining means for determining whether a magnetic head scans a normal recording track on the basis of the output from the track data detecting means and outputting data corresponding to a deviation of the recording track which the magnetic head scans from the normal recording track; means for calculating a deviation of an electrical-to-mechanical converter device on which the magnetic head is mounted from the output data of the tracking determining means such that the magnetic head scans a normal scanning position; and means for driving the electrical-to-mechanical converter device in accordance with the calculated output from the calculating means.

Tracking control device and magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus

A device is provided for electronically editing and recording new signals on recorded tracks on a recording medium. Reproduction is started from the track just before an editing point and a magnetic head mounted on an electro-mechanical converting element traces the curvature of the reproducing track. A deviation amount of the electro-mechanical converting element upon reproduction of the track just before the editing point is detected by a strain detecting sensor mounted on the electro-mechanical converting element. The detection signal is sampled at a plurality of sample points and stored in a memory circuit. When the head reaches the editing point, the head is set into the recording mode. The electro-mechanical converting element on which the head is mounted is deviated in accordance with the curvature information of the reproducing track just before the editing point and, at the same time, a closed loop control is executed such that a strain pattern in the track scan which is detected by the strain sensor mounted on the converting element coincides with a strain pattern of the strain sensor upon reproduction of the track just before the editing point which was stored. Due to this, the curvature characteristics of the recorded tracks before and after the editing point are made to coincide.

Electronically controlled magnetic tape editing device

A tracking error signal forming circuit is disclosed, which circuit comprises means for obtaining a reproduction time difference between specified signals, each of which is contained in the reproduced signal reproduced by each of at least two heads having different azimuthal angles and mounted on an electro-mechanical converting element; reference value forming means for forming a reference value for the tracking control, operating means for calculating the difference between the reproduction time difference and the reference value or the sum thereof; displacement means for displacing forcedly the electro-mechanical converting element in the positive or negative direction; and maximum value detecting means for detecting the maximum value of at least one of the reproduced signals; the reference value forming means including means for calculating the difference between the reproduction time difference and the fixed reference value or the sum thereof at the point of time at which the maximum value of the reproduced signal is obtained by the maximum value detecting means.

Tracking error signal forming circuit

An optical rotation detecting apparatus for a bushless dc motor detects rotation information of the shaft by the slits arranged at equal pitches along the circumference of a rotary disk and a photoelectric conversion element arranged circumferentially at a pitch which is an integral multiple of the slit pitch and including a first set of photoelectric conversion element pieces arranged alternately with the former thereby generating a first rotation information signal having a frequency proportional to the rotational speed of the shaft and a second rotation information signal having a 90-degree phase difference with the first rotation information signal. The phases of the first and second rotation information signals are compared to detect the direction of rotation of the shaft. The accuracy of rotation information can be further improved by increasing the number of photoelectric conversion element pieces per slit pitch. The photoelectric conversion element includes an amorphous silicon photoelectric conversion element.

Optical rotation detecting apparatus

In an electronic commutated motor, ripple of driving torque is perfectly compensated into uniform torque by controlling stator current; therein mechanical 360.degree. angle of rotation of the rotor magnet is divided into e.g. 12 partitioned ranges (of 30.degree.), said compensation being made by repeatedly reading out the same compensation data for the 30.degree. range by utilizing an address counter which is reset at each beginning of said partitioned ranges.

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Osaka, Japan

Hiromi Nakase