Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Mineo Mino

Yoshikazu Kageyama

Masao Tomita

Kiyoji Fujisawa

Takenobu Isaka

Kazuhiro Yamanishi

Kenzo Tanabe

Sakon Nagasaki

Keiichiro Tsuruoka

Yoshihiro Asahi

An apparatus for selecting one of a number of television channels is operable to be set in a mode whereby an array of miniature pictures corresponding to the respective channels is displayed, with each channel being sequentially selected for a predetermined interval during which image data for the selected channel are repetitively written into one of a set of regions (42 to 50) of a one-field memory, with the entire memory contents being continuously and repetitively read out, whereby the picture for the selected channel appears as a moving picture while those of the other channels are static. The apparatus can then be set in a normal operating mode, with the channel selected at the time of mode changeover being thereafter held fixedly selected and a normal display picture produced.

Television channel selection apparatus employing multi-picture display

A video tape recorder (VTR) including a detection switch for detecting presence and absence of an erasure prevention tab of a video tape cassette, a light emitting element, a control device associated operatively with the light emitting element, and an electronic viewfinder. When a first video tape cassette provided with the erasure prevention tab as been loaded into the VTR, the control device sets the VTR to a recording standby state and turns on the light emitting element. Meanwhile, when a second video tape cassette which is not provided with the erasure prevention tab has been loaded into the VTR, the control device sets the VTR to a stop state, flashes the light emitting element and causes the electronic viewfinder to display on a screen of the electronic viewfinder a warning indicative of loading of the second video tape cassette into the VTR.

Integrated video camera/recorder unit

A battery voltage level detecting apparatus makes possible the detection of the voltage level of a battery and the detection of a minimum operating voltage by means of a single comparison circuit and a single adjustment. A voltage varying with variation of the battery voltage is compared with an output voltage of a counter for counting reference clocks so as to control the counting operation. When a change occurs in the comparison result, a battery voltage level storage command is generated, and then the counter is preset. In response to the command, the count value is stored and displayed.

Battery voltage level detecting apparatus

A magnetic tape reproducing apparatus in a rotary head VTR is arranged such that when reels are rotatably driven to perform a cue play and a review play, the speed of a motor driving the reels is controlled by a speed control of the motor itself and in accordance with a control signal reproduced from a magnetic tape, thereby making the speed of the magnetic tape approximately constant during the cue play and the review play.

Constant speed reel driven magnetic tape in cue or review mode

A VTR reproducing system in a slant track type video tape recorder, in which a tape transport motor is driven by two pulse signals formed of a reference signal and different in frequency but coincident in phase, thereby reproducing a noiseless still picture and a slow motion picture on the television receiver.

Magnetic tape system for optimally reproducing still and slow motion

A method of processing video signals for eliminating vertical picture fluctuations caused when a video tape recorder reproduces video signals at a tape speed different from that used for recording the video signals. The vertical picture fluctuations are eliminated by substituting distorted vertical synchronous signals for the original vertical synchronous signal, the distorted vertical synchronous signals generated by a processing apparatus having a correction circuit which corrects for the difference in frequency characteristics between the video signal path and the vertical synchronous signal path.

Method of processing video signals for time base correction

A rotary head type magnetic tape recording/reproducing apparatus, by which a tracking condition of the reproducing heads and a recorded track can be automatically adjusted. This apparatus includes an oscillator for imparting small vibrations to the reproducing heads, a synchronous detector, an integration adder circuit including an adder and a delay circuit rotary heads mounted on a positionable element, and from the small vibrations. A tracking error signal which is derived by wobbling circuit is applied to the integration adder circuit, and the positionable element is controlled by the output signal of the integration adder means so as to construct a servo loop. Accordingly, proper tracking can be attained even for large tracking error.

Rotary head type magnetic tape recording reproducing apparatus

A magnetic tape reproducing system for providing a still picture of a slow motion picture. A magnetic tape is provided on which video signals are recorded in successive fields of a unit length in the longitudinal direction of the tape and a plurality of rotary magnetic reproducing heads are placed on the periphery of a rotating disc at equal angular intervals from each other so as to reproduce one complete field of the video signals. The magnetic reproducing heads are arranged so that the distance between the two gaps of two adjacent heads is equal to an integral multiple of the distance along the tape corresponding to a period of horizontal synchronizing signals contained in the video signals.

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Hirakata, Japan

Mineo Mino