Sony Corporation

Michio Nagai

Tetsujiro Kondo

Naofumi Yanagihara

Keiji Kanota

Takahito Seki

Norihisa Shirota

Toshihiko Numakura

Masayoshi Ishimaru

Masashi Mizuta

Keiji Kanouta

A magnetic reproducing device such as a VTR, DAT, or the like reproduces recorded information from inclined tracks on a magnetic tape, having auxiliary information, such as address information, recorded in areas in the inclined tracks, includes a rotary magnetic head rotatable for successively scanning the tracks on the magnetic tape to generate a reproduced signal representative of the auxiliary information. A pulse signal is generated having pulses in synchronism with each rotation of the rotary magnetic head through a predetermined angle. Window pulses used subsequently to extract the auxiliary information in the areas from the reproduced signal are generated based on the pulse signal.

Magnetic reproducing device using window pulses to extract address

Image data is encoded into sync blocks of fixed length and maximum data volume by dividing a vertical interval of image data samples, such as a field or frame of samples, into a plurality of blocks and deriving the orthogonal transform of the image data samples in each block. A block of conversion coefficients that are produced by the orthogonal transform are quantized with the same quantizing step to produce weighted, quantized conversion coefficients having a weighting factor that is a function of the visual activity of that block. Then, the weighted, quantized conversion coefficients of a block are variable length coded and the variable length codes of a predetermined number of blocks are combined into a sync block of fixed length.

High efficiency data compressed image encoding

In a digital signal reproducing apparatus for detecting identifying data in a reproduced digital data signal which had been recorded on slant tracks formed sequentially on a magnetic tape by a rotary head and which is reproduced at a speed higher than a normal playback speed, a synchronizing detector circuit detects synchronizing data included in the reproduced digital signal and, in response thereto, a pulse signal is generated and supplied to an identifying data detector circuit which, in response to such pulse signal, receives a plurality of corresponding identifying data. The identifying data detector circuit determines the identifying data value which corresponds to the majority of the received plurality of identifying data.

Digital video tape recorder

An apparatus for processing an input data signal has a generator providing a plurality of pseudo-random signals each of which scrambles the input data signal for providing a plurality of respective scrambled outputs, a detector by which a DC component, such as, a run-length or a digital sum value, is detected for each of the scrambled outputs, and a selector responsive to the detector for selecting one of the scrambled outputs, for example, having a minimum run-length or a digital sum value closest to zero. An identifying signal identifying the pseudo-random signal used in scrambling the selected scrambled output is then transmitted with the latter, for example, by recording on a magnetic tape. When the transmitted signal is received or reproduced, the identifying signal included with it is detected, and the received signal is descrambled with a pseudo-random signal corresponding to the detected identifying signal.

Signal processing apparatus selecting a scrambled signal having a

A highly efficient coding apparatus is configured to divide a digital picture signal into picture blocks and, based on a signal from a coding circuit for performing variable-length coding of each picture block, generate an output signal in the form of serial sync blocks. By inserting the most significant bit of a coded output signal for each picture element in a predetermined position of each sync block, a reproduced picture is obtained in a picture search mode in which a magnetic head scans a video tape across a plurality of tracks.

Highly efficient coding apparatus

A recording and reproducing apparatus wherein the video signal is time base expanded and separated into two channels before being recorded with a two headed recorder on two separate channels of a magnetic medium and wherein during reproduction the two channels from the magnetic medium are supplied to a time base corrector which supplies an output to a channel mixing and time base compressor which converts the two channels into a single output signal. A burst generator inserts burst signals into the two channels before they are recorded.

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Saitama, Japan

Michio Nagai