Victor Company of Japan, Limited

Seiichi Takashima

Nobuaki Takahashi

Takeshi Shibamoto

Fujio Suzuki

Koji Tanaka

Hiroyuki Sugiyama

Mitsuru Kikuchi

Mitsuo Kubo

Yoshiaki Amano

Yoshitaka Iwabuchi

Togo Nishiyama

Kohji Tanaka

A digital video signal reproducing apparatus comprises a reproducing circuit for reproducing a digital video signal from a recording medium, where the recording medium is time-sequentially recorded with the digital video signal having a signal format in which a header signal is added to each of divided picture element data groups which are obtained by dividing a picture element data group in terms of a predetermined unit, the picture element data group is obtained by subjecting an analog video signal to a digital pulse modulation at a sampling frequency such that a product of a number of picture element data in one scanning line and an effective number of scanning lines in one picture of a standard television system is exceedingly close to 2.sup.18 but less than 2.sup.18, and the header signal at least comprises a synchronizing signal and a picture mode identification code, a header signal reproducing circuit for discriminating the header signal within the digital video signal reproduced by the reproducing circuit and reproducing the header signal, two memory circuits into which the picture element data group within said reproduced digital video signal is written and from which a stored picture element data group is read out, a circuit for controlling write-in and read-out with respect to the two memory circuits according to a code in the reproduced header signal, and a circuit for producing an analog video signal in accordance with a standard television system from the picture element data read out from the two memory circuits.

Digital video signal reproducing apparatus

A digital video signal recording system and reproducing apparatus comprise a circuit for independently subjecting a luminance signal and two kinds of color difference signals of a color picture information to digital pulse modulation, to produce a digital luminance signal and two kinds of digital color difference signals, a circuit for dividing the digital luminance signal and the two kinds of digital color difference signals into picture element data groups, in terms of specific number of rows or columns which are adjacent on a screen, and adding a header signal at least comprising a synchronizing signal, a picture mode identification code, and a picture information quantity identification code to a beginning position of each of the divided picture element data groups comprising the digital luminance signal and the two kinds of digital color difference signals, to produce a digital video signal having a signal format in which the digital luminance, the two kinds of digital color difference signals, and the header signal are time-sequentially multiplexed, a circuit for recording the digital video signal onto a recording medium, a circuit for writing each of the divided picture element data groups picked up and reproduced from the recording medium into a memory circuit according to codes within the header signal, and a circuit for producing an analog video signal in accordance with a standard television system from picture element data read out from the memory circuit.

Digital video signal recording system and reproducing apparatus

A digital signal recording system and a reproducing apparatus for reproducing signals recorded according to this recording system comprise a circuit for alternately transmitting a first digital luminance signal and a first two kinds of digital color difference signals obtained by subjecting a color picture information signal to digital pulse modulation, in terms of information of one or a plurality of scanning lines, and producing a first digital video signal having a signal format wherein signal components of two sampling points of the first digital luminance signal are arranged within the same word and signal components of the same sampling point on a picture of the first two kinds of digital color difference signals are arranged within the same word; a circuit for time-sequentially multiplexing the first digital video signal and the digital audio signals obtained by subjecting audio information signal to be recorded to digital pulse modulation, in terms of words, and recording the time-sequentially multiplexed signal onto the same one track on a recording medium; a decoder for demodulating and reproducing analog audio signals from a signal picked up and reproduced from the recording medium; and a circuit for producing an analog video signal in accordance with a standard television system, from the output first digital video signal of the decoder.

Digital signal recording system and reproducing apparatus

Analog primary color video signals of a still-picture converted to luminance and color difference components and converted to digital samples. The digital samples of each video component are written into a respective memory at the sampling rate and retrieved by a reading circuit at a rate lower than the sampling rate. Analog multi-channel audio signals are converted to digital samples which are time-division multiplexed with the retrieved digital samples of the video components. The multiplexed digital samples are recorded on a recording disc medium in a spiral track pattern.

System for recording and reproducing time-division multiplexed digital

A transducer feeding mechanism in an apparatus for recording and reproducing a signal on and from a rotary recording medium by means of a transducer fed over the recording medium in the radial direction thereof comprises a rotational motive power source having a rotary shaft and a pinion provided on the shaft, a rack meshed with said pinion and fed in translational movement by the rotation of the pinion, at least two guide bars extending parallelly in the direction of feeding of the transducer, a first feeding carriage on which the rack is mounted and which is guided by one of the guide bars, biasing means provided on the first feeding carriage and functioning to contact another guide bar in an elastic manner and to urge the first feeding carriage in a direction to cause the rack to mesh further with the pinion, a second feeding carriage on which the transducer is mounted, and which is guided by said other guide bar, a guide member mounted on the second feeding carriage and contacting in a rotationally displaceable manner said one of the guide bars, and engagement means functioning to place the first and second feeding carriages in contacting engagement in the feeding direction along the guide bars and in a mutually displaceable state within a plane perpendicular to the feeding direction.

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Seiichi Takashima