Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Video Engineering, Incorporated

Keiichi Komatsu

Akira Shibata

Noboru Kojima

Kuniaki Miura

Shinji Ozaki

Teizo Tamura

Hikaru Masui

Makoto Konosu

Shigeyuki Itoh

Yoshizumi Watatani

Kenji Satoh

Tomomitsu Kuroyanagi

Koichi Hirose

Toshimichi Terada

Ken Kubo

Yasuji Moriyama

A pair of recording heads are mounted on a rotary cylinder for recording a video signal in slanted tracks on magnetic tape. The recording heads are mounted in a common plane and each has a different azimuthal angle. A pair of reading heads are mounted on the same rotary cylinder for reading the video signal recorded on the magnetic tape. The reading heads are mounted in a plane offset from the plane of the recording heads and have azimuthal angles that match the azimuthal angles of the recording heads. A mixing circuit mixes a component of the video signal ready from the magnetic tape by one of the recording heads with a video signal from a video signal source to generate a mixed video signal. The mixed video signal is returned to one of the recording heads for recordation on the magnetic tape.

Dual record/read head video recording and playback apparatus with

An optical magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus and method including an optical beam scanner for scanning a recording medium with an optical beam and forming a track having a predetermined angle with respect to the traveling direction of the recording medium, a magnetic field applying arrangement for applying the magnetic field onto the recording medium, and optical beam generator for generating the optical beam.

Optical magnetic recording and reproducing method and apparatus capable

Disclosed is a magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus, in which a luminance signal and a carrier chrominance signal are separated from a composite color video signal, a luminance carrier signal is frequency-modulated with the luminance signal, a frequency of a subcarrier signal of the carrier chrominance signal is frequency-converted into a low band frequency so as to dispose the carrier chrominance signal in the frequency band lower than the lower side band of the luminance signal, a sound carrier signal is frequency-modulated with an aural signal, the aural signal is disposed in the frequency band between the luminance signal and the carrier chrominance signal, and the video signal and the aural signal are frequency-multiplexed and recorded. A comb line filter is inserted in a recording luminance signal processing circuit for separating the luminance signal from the composite color video signal and for processing the luminance signal.

Magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus for video and sound

A chroma signal recording and reproducing circuit of a magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus having a recording circuit for frequency-modulating a luminance signal of a color video signal, low-frequency converting a chroma signal and frequency-multiplexing those signals for recording and a reproducing circuit for frequency-converting the low-frequency converted chroma signal in a reproduced signal and frequency-demodulating the FM luminance signal to reproduce a color video signal is disclosed. The circuit comprises a chroma signal recording circuit including a first ACC circuit and a first frequency converter connected to the first ACC circuit, and a chroma signal reproducing circuit including a second ACC circuit, a second frequency converter connected to the second ACC circuit, a comb filter connected to the second frequency converter and a deemphasis circuit connected to the output of the comb filter.

Chroma signal recording and reproducing circuit

A magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus for sequentially recording each of four pilot signals of different frequencies on each video track to be multiplexed with a video signal and reproducing the video signal and the pilot signals at which time the pilot signals are separated from the video signal and used as a tracking signal to control the transport speed of the magnetic tape, wherein upon reproduction the levels of the pilot signals reproduced from the right and left adjacent video tracks are detected and one of the reproduced pilot signals from the right and left adjacent tracks is controlled in its level so that the tape travelling speed is controlled to make the center of the video head scan the same position on the track as upon recording.

Magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus

A picture reproducing apparatus for a helical scanning video tape recorder including an impedance transformer; a video head connected to the input of the impedance transformer; a resonance circuit connected to the output of the impedance transformer; a pre-amplifier connected to the output of the resonance circuit; a feedback resistor connected between the junction of the pre-amplifier and resonance circuit and the output of the pre-amplifier; and an output terminal connected to the output of the pre-amplifier. The impedance transformer has the output impedance four times as high as the input impedance thereof.

Picture reproducing apparatus in a helical scanning video tape recorder

A record/reproduce circuit for VTR comprising two normal reproducing heads with different azimuth angles, a special reproducing head with the same azimuth angle as that of the one normal reproducing head, a rotary transformer through which signals from these heads are supplied to a static circuit section, a change-over means for alternately switching a signal from the special reproducing head and a signal from the other normal reproducing head with a different azimuth angle from that of the special reproducing head, a feedback type preamplifier for amplifying the output of the change-over means, and another feedback-type preamplifier for amplifying a signal from the normal reproducing head with the same azimuth angle as that of the special reproducing head.

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Keiichi Komatsu