Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Masamitsu Ohtsu

Hiroshi Taniguchi

Tatsushi Bannai

Hiroshi Okamoto

Hideaki Shibata

Chojuro Yamamitsu

Kanji Kubo

Osahiko Yano

Hiroaki Shimazaki

Yasuharu Shimeki

Ichiro Arimura

Hiroshi Matsushima

Nobuyoshi Kihara

Mitsunobu Furumoto

Sadafumi Kitamura

In a video signal recording/reproducing apparatus, a video signal is subjected to bit rate reduction including a variable length processing to obtain a coded data. The coded data is separated into basic data which shows a basic construction of a video image and has a fixed data length and additional data which shows detailed information of the video image and has a variable data length. In recording the coded data containing basic data and additional data on a recording medium, the basic data is recorded in one region on the recording medium and the additional data is recorded continuously in a region other than the basic data recording region, by which both data are recorded in separated regions on the recording medium.

Video signal digital recording/reproducing apparatus

A video and audio signal recording apparatus for recording video and audio signals on parallel tracks formed on a recording medium, includes: a divider for dividing a video signal into video signal blocks each contained in a unit period which is N times (N=1, 2, . . .) as long as one field period of the video signal; another divider for dividing an audio signal into audio signal blocks each contained in a specific period which is synchronized with the unit period; and a recorder for recording signal contained in each of said video signal and audio signal blocks in each of fully independent areas on the recording medium such that any two of the fully independent areas adjacent to each other in a track width direction are separated from each other by an unrecorded area composed of L unrecorded consecutive tracks (L=1, 2, . . .) and any two of the fully independent areas adjacent to each other in a track length direction are separated from each other by an unrecorded area having a specific length in the track length direction.

Apparatus for recording each editing unit of video and audio signals in

In a video signal recording/reproducing apparatus, a video signal is subjected to bit rate reduction including a variable length processing to obtain a coded data. The coded data is separated into basic data which shows a basic construction of video image and has a fixed data length and additional data which shows detailed information of the video image and has a variable data length. In recording the coded data containing basic data and additional data on a recording medium, the basic data is recorded in one region on the recording medium and the additional data is recorded continuously in a region other than the basic data recording region, by which both data are recorded in separated regions on the recording medium.

In a digital signal magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus, input digital signals of plural channels and a recording current control signal expressing recording current values corresponding to the respective digital signals are time-division mulitplexed and transmitted into a rotary cylinder, and the digital signals and recording current control signal are separated by a circuit built in the rotary cylinder. The recording current for each of the digital signals is controlled depending on the recording current control signal. By time-division multiplexing the input digital signals of plural channels and transmitting the multiplexed signal into the rotary cylinder, the number of channels of the rotary transformer can be reduced. Further, by transmitting the recording current control signal into the rotary cylinder, the recording current of the digitally transmitted signal can be adjusted.

Digital signal magnetic recording apparatus with time-division multiplex

A video recording and reproducing apparatus with photoelectric image camera in which a color signal processing circuit of a recording system is simplified. For recording, a luminance signal and a chrominance signal are produced in accordance with an image being picked up through a photoelectric transducer. The luminance signal is angle-modulated, while a carrier signal having a lower frequency than the standard carrier signal is directly modulated with the chrominance signal, whereby a chrominance recording signal equivalent to a signal obtained by a frequency conversion of the standard carrier signal to a low frequency band is obtained and added with the angle-modulated luminance signal to be recorded. Upon reproduction, the angle-modulated luminance signal undergoes angle-demodulation to be converted to a reproduced luminance signal, while the color (chrominance) recording signal is frequency-converted to a high frequency band to be reproduced color signal. The reproduced luminance and color signals are added together to obtain a reproduced color video signal.

Recording and/or reproducing apparatus with photo-electric image device

In a magnetic recording and reproducing device having at least one rotating magnetic head for recording and reproducing video signal and digital form audio signal in a contiguous manner along each track which is inclined at an angle relative to the direction of travel of a magnetic tape, a discriminator signal is combined to the digital form audio signal. The discrimination signal has a first section carrying a check code and a second section carrying information. During the reproducing mode, the discrimination signal is detected such that the information carried in the second section is made invalid when the check code has a predetermined code pattern, and the information carried in the second section is made valid when the check code has a code pattern other than the predetermined code pattern. Furthermore, the check code is used to indicate the type of information contained in the second section.

Apparatus for recording a discriminative signal

A control signal recording and reproducing system for exactly tracking a record track in a helical scan type VTR or the like is disclosed. Intermittent pilot signals are recorded with the frequency spectra thereof being interleaved between adjacent tracks. In a reproducing operation, the main track pilot signals and the adjacent track pilot signals are separated by a comb type filter, and using a time position of the main pilot signals as a reference, the adjacent track pilot signals are separated in time to the front adjacent track pilot signal and the rear adjacent track pilot signal to detect the direction of a tracking error.

Tracking control system using intermittently recorded pilot signals

A magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus, for recording and reproducing the color television signal including VIR signal, of the type having a comb filter which is inserted in the chrominance signal system and includes a delay line for causing a delay equal to one horizontal line scanning period. In this apparatus the VIR signal has no line correlation so that the output of the comb filter becomes a VIR signal the amplitude of which is reduced by 6dB and that the amplitude and/or phase of the chrominance components of VIR signal are caused to vary over a wide range due to the effects of VIT signal. In order that the stable and correct color images may be reproduced even by a color television receiver of the type in which the amplitude and phase of the chrominance components of VIR signal are detected so as to automatically adjust the color saturation and hue, the amplitude of the chrominance components of VIR signal is detected and corrected in a recording system of a magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus; the burst signal and the chrominance components of VIR signal are compared in phase so as to correct the phase of the carrier color signal with the difference signal before the carrier color signal is recorded; and in the playback mode the chrominance components of VIP signal of the carrier color signal free from time axis distortions are replaced with the stable oscillator output.

Magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus for color video signals

A two speed or multi-speed video tape recorder of the conventional helical scan type in which the audio signal is capable of being recorded as a time compressed signal at one end of each helical video scan, or alternatively, in conventional longitudinal fashion by means of a stationary magnetic head engaging one edge of the tape. At low tape transport speeds, improved bandwidth (and therefore sound fidelity) is obtained by use of the time compression technique; while at higher transport speeds, there are advantages in utilizing the stationary audio head. Circuitry is provided to automatically utilize the time compression technique at lower tape transport speeds and the stationary head longitudinal recording technique at higher tape transport speeds. A pilot or cue signal is recorded on the tape, to automatically control the reproduction circuitry so that both types of recording methods can be interchanged on the same magnetic tape, with the reproducing circuitry switching accordingly between the two modes, as required.

Magnetic recording and/or reproducing system for television and audio

In a magnetic recording and reproducing system of the type wherein a plurality of rotating magnetic heads record the video signal on a magnetic tape as tracks which are inclined at an angle relative to the direction of travel of the magnetic tape, the audio signal is time compressed and recorded by the rotating magnetic heads on tracks contiguous with either or both ends of said video signal recording tracks, whereby even at a considerably low tape transport speed the audio signal may be recorded in a stable manner.

Helical scan video tape recorder for recording video and audio signals

A dropout compensating device for obtaining dropout-compensated video signals by phase- or amplitude-modulating a video signal containing dropouts, replacing the duration of dropouts in the modulated video signal by the signal portions of the modulated video signal leading one horizontal scanning period with respect to the durations of the dropouts, and demodulating the video signal.

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