Hitachi, Ltd.

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Hitachi Video Engineering, Incorporated

Hitachi Video Eng. Inc.

Masashi Mori

Hiroshi Kurihara

Shigeyuki Nishitani

Yukio Hiruta

Tatsumi Mori

Tsutomu Furuhashi

Naruhiko Kasai

Terumi Takashi

Shoichi Miyazawa

Eisaku Saiki

Shintaro Suzumura

Takeshi Maeda

Satoshi Konuma

Tadashi Saitoh

Kazutoshi Ashikawa

Toshihiro Matsunaga

Tsuguyoshi Hirooka

Nobutaka Kato

Takashi Takeuchi

Katsumi Takeda

Hisayuki Ohhara

Hajime Fujiya

A magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus includes a R/W signal processor having a write data generator arranged to be of an interleave system and transmitting/receiving data to/from the R/W amplifier via a plurality of signal lines. In addition, the R/W amplifier has a compound circuit provided for the write data of the interleave system from the R/W signal processor and is formed as an integrated circuit, moreover, a &frac12; prescaler is provided at the output of the write data generator, making transmitting and receiving write data in NRZI CODE.

Magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus and semiconductor integrated circuit for use in the same comprising a read/write signal processor having an interleave write data generator

A liquid crystal display control device is provided with a clock generating circuit for generating, on the basis of a first synchronous signal, a dot clock having a predetermined period, a phase which varies on dot-period basis for every frame period of the first video signal, an input circuit for picking up the first video signal in accordance with the dot clock and outputting digital display data, a frame memory in which the digital display data are stored, and a control circuit for generating a second synchronous signal for a liquid crystal display and reading out the display data stored in the frame memory to generate a second video signal, whereby a series of operations from a pickup operation of the video signal to a display operation of the liquid crystal panel can be performed at a lower speed while suppressing deterioration in quality of display images.

Liquid crystal display control device, liquid crystal display device using the same, and information processor

In a liquid crystal display apparatus having a liquid crystal display panel, an input analog display data is converted to a digital display data, a data portion is selected from the digital display data, and display status information is displayed on the display panel in the form of an overlay display data over the digital display data, so that display adjustment on the display panel is possible. The display adjustment may be automatically performed by use of a minimum value data and a maximum value data, found among the digital display data, for an automatic offset level adjustment and for an automatic gain level adjustment, respectively.

Analog interface display apparatus with color display control

A video signal output device which outputs a video signal, including a basic signal group generating circuit for generating a sync signal and a video signal, the video signal indicating display values of pixels at display positions on a display device in intervals of the video signal, the display positions being determined in accordance with time differences between the intervals of the video signal and the sync signal; a signal generating circuit for generating a transmission signal relating to the video signal to be transmitted to the display device; a superposing circuit for superposing the transmission signal on the sync signal to generate a second sync signal; and an output circuit for outputting the second sync signal and the video signal.

Video signal display system

A magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus includes a read/write signal processor having a write data generator arranged to be of an interleave system and transmitting/receiving data to/from the read/write amplifier via a plurality of signal lines. In addition, the read/write amplifier has a compound circuit provided for the write data of the interleave system from the read/write signal processor and is formed as an integrated circuit, moreover, a 1/2 prescaler is provided at the output of the write data generator, transmitting and receiving write data in Non-Return-To-Zero-Interleave CODE.

Magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus and a read/write amplifier having a signal transmission system with high speed of data write signal

A liquid crystal display control device is provided with a clock generating circuit for generating, on the basis of a first synchronous signal, a 1/n-frequency dot clock whose period is equal to n-times the dot period of a first video signal (n&gE;2) and whose phase varies on dot-period basis for every frame period of the first video signal, an input circuit for picking up the first video signal in accordance with the 1/n-frequency dot clock and outputting digital display data, a frame memory in which the digital display data are stored, and a control circuit for generating a second synchronous signal for a liquid crystal display and reading out the display data stored in the frame memory to generate a second video signal, whereby a series of operations from a pickup operation of the video signal to a display operation of the liquid crystal panel can be performed at a lower speed while suppressing deterioration in quality of display images.

An object of the present invention is to perform precise A-D conversion of analog video signal in a liquid crystal display monitor, without increasing a transmission line: to attain this object, a horizontal dividing signal synthesizing circuit of a graphics card superposes a horizontal dividing signal synchronized in phase with a clock for D-A conversion of the analog video signal on a horizontal sync signal, to obtain a second horizontal sync signal, to be outputted; a sync signal isolating circuit of the liquid crystal display monitor isolates the horizontal dividing signal and horizontal sync signal from the second horizontal sync signal; the PLL generates an A-D conversion clock synchronized with the horizontal dividing signal.

An image display device is arranged to convert analog video signals into digital video signals and display the corresponding image to the digital video signals. The image display device provides a variable delaying circuit for delaying an analog video signal of each color or a clock variable delay circuit for delaying a dot clock for generating each color dot clock and supplying each color dot clock as a conversion timing signal of an analog-to-digital converting circuit of the corresponding color. This kind of delay circuit is served to adjust a phase of the analog video signal or the dot clock of each color, thereby suppressing color blur even if the analog video signal contains skews among the colors.

Image display device and information processing apparatus arranged to convert an analog video signal into a digital video signal

A phase locked loop circuit having a voltage controlled oscillator for generating a clock signal with a frequency determined by a voltage control signal supplied to the voltage controlled oscillator, an AD-conversion circuit for sampling a target signal with a timing determined by the clock signal and for converting sampled values into digital data, a phase locked loop control circuit for generating control data with values representing values of the digital data, and a DA-conversion circuit having an adjustable conversion characteristic for converting the control data into an analog signal and for outputting the analog signal to the voltage controlled oscillator as the voltage control signal. The adjustable conversion characteristic of the DA-conversion circuit is adjusted on the basis of an input signal having predetermined playback characteristics and when the phase locked loop circuit is part of a recording and reproducing apparatus, the input signal is a reproduced signal from a signal recorded on a recording medium.

Phase locked loop circuit with adjustable offset characteristic, method

A disk-like optical information recording medium in/from which information can be optically recorded/reproduced along a virtual track virtually defined in a spiral or concentric circular form on the recording medium is provided with a pair of wobbling pits provided for each predetermined data record unit and shifted in position in opposite senses of a radius direction with respect to a virtual track center and a group of at least two pits provided at specified positions in association with a leading one of the paired wobbling pits. The pit group forms together with the leading wobbling pit a mark following a predetermined modulation rule applied upon recording of information and changes between tracks adjacent to each other in the radius direction. An apparatus for recording/reproducing information in/from the recording medium includes an optical system for irradiating the recording medium with write-in light modulated in accordance with externally inputted recording information and irradiating the recording medium with reproduction light to detect light reflected therefrom, a detecting and decoding circuit inputted with a detection output of the optical system for detecting a position of the mark on the basis of a decoding method corresponding to the predetermined modulation rule, and a movement amount detecting circuit inputted with the mark position from the detecting and decoding circuit for detecting a change in relative position between a reproduced position on the recording medium and the optical system.

Optical information recording medium having a transitioning three bit

An optical recording and reproducing system having an accurate high-speed optical head positioning apparatus. In one embodiment, a positive acceleration is applied to the optical head until the optical head has moved half the distance to a target track. Thereafter, a negative acceleration is applied to the optical head to decelerate the optical head until the optical head arrives at the target track. Feedback control is not used while the optical head is moving, thus eliminating a delay in response time due to a limited servo band upon the transition from the positive acceleration to the negative acceleration.

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Chigasaki, Japan

Masashi Mori