Pioneer Electronic Corporation

Kiyoshi Iwai

Masami Tsuchida

Fumihiko Miyamoto

Kiichiro Koguchi

Hisashi Yagi

Toshio Ohtani

Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Junichi Yoshio

Masami Suzuki

A digital audio tape recorder and a method for operating the same, especially in a music program jump selecting mode. In one embodiment, the state of an erasure-preventing tab is detected, and TOC (Table-Of-Contents) information is transferred from the tape to a TOC information memory only when the erasure-preventing tab is set to an indicate an unrecordable state. In accordance with another embodiment, when the music program number of the music selection presently being reproduced is known and the program number is aligned, a target music program number is calculated and displayed.

Digital audio tape recorder and music program jump selecting method

A dither circuit including an adder for receiving an input signal and a dither signal which is generated by a dither signal generator, a level detection circuit for detecting the signal level of the input signal, and a dither control circuit for stopping the feeding of the dither signal to the adder when the level detection circuit detects that the signal level of the input signal is zero.

Dither circuit responsive to zero input signal level

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Saitama, Japan

Kiyoshi Iwai