Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Nippon Hoso' Kyokai

Shigeru Awamoto

Masakazu Nishino

Tatsuro Juri

Tatsushi Bannai

Seishi Sasaki

Toyohiko Matsuta

Chiyoko Matsumi

Akira Iketani

Tadashi Ono

Susumu Yamaguchi

Hideki Otaka

Makoto Goto

Takao Kashiro

Mitsuo Chiba

Yuji Fujiwara

Chojuro Yamamitsu

Shiro Kato

Ryoji Asada

Hirofumi Uchida

Kazumasa Motoda

Shoji Nishikawa

Katsuya Yokoyama

Toyohiko Matsuda

Hiromichi Shibaya

A video signal producing system includes an imaging device for obtaining progressive imaging signals having various frame rates, a recording device for recording an output signal of the imaging device and a reproduction device for reproducing a recording signal obtained from the recording device. The imaging device includes a frame rate converting portion for converting the imaging signals to an output having a predetermined frame rate and the reproduction device changes a reproduction speed in response to each of the various frame rates so as to generate an output having a substantial number of frames such that the substantial number of the frames assumes a predetermined value.

Video signal producing system and video signal recording/reproducing device in that system

The digital signal recording apparatus of the invention for recording a video signal on a recording medium, includes: a mode setting section for setting a recording mode, the recording mode being one of a standard recording mode and a long-time recording mode having a longer recording time than that of the standard recording mode; a sampling section for sampling the video signal at a sampling number corresponding to the recording mode set by the mode setting section, the sampling number when the selected recording mode is the long-time recording mode being smaller than the sampling number when the selected recording mode is the standard recording mode; a coding section for coding the video signal sampled by the sampling section at a compression rate corresponding to the recording mode set by the mode setting section, the compression rate when the selected recording mode is the long-time recording mode being higher than the compression rate when the selected recording mode is the standard recording mode; and a recording section for recording the video signal coded by the coding section on a recording medium.

Digital signal recording apparatus for sampling and compressing signals according to various recording modes

Digital signal recording apparatus

In the video signal recording apparatus of the present invention, when recording video signals of a plurality of frames after highly efficiently coding the same, video signals of the first frame are coded within the frame and divided into compression blocks each of which block is recorded to a corresponding recording block at a fixed position.

Video signal recorder having a frame coder

When a standard TV signal of digital format is a first video signal and another digitized TV signal having a bandwidth wider than that of the first video signal is a second video signal, every two frames of the second video signal are calculated to produce a pixel value sum of the two frames and a pixel value difference between the same and either a resultant interframe calculated output or the first video signal is compressed through two-dimensional orthogonal transformation for ease of storage.

Video signals recorder and player including interframe calculating means

According to orthogonal transformation coefficients obtained through orthogonal transformation, the degree of influence on visual sensation is detected. Depending on the degree of influence on visual sensation, a quantization step size is controlled so as to assign a greater amount of codes to each block of which image quality deterioration is conspicuous and a smaller amount of codes to each block of which image quality deterioration is less conspicuous.

Orthogonal transform encoder using DC component to control quantization

An encoding and decoding apparatus for a video signal and a high-definition television signal is disclosed. For the picture A having the horizontal to vertical screen frame ratio of 4:3, the picture B having the horizontal to vertical screen frame ratio of 16:9 and the picture C having the horizontal to vertical screen frame ratio of 16:9 and having a larger number of vertical pixels than that of the picture A and picture B, the apparatus limits the band of the picture C to obtain the picture D having the same numbers of horizontal and vertical pixels respectively as those of the picture B, and high-efficiency encodes the picture A, picture B or picture D in the same method. The apparatus obtains the additional picture E which is a difference between the picture D and the picture C, or a difference between the picture D' which is a result of decoding a signal that has been obtained by high-efficiency encoding the picture D and the picture C, and then high-efficiency encodes the additional picture E obtained.

Video signal encoding and decoding apparatus

In digital video signals which differ in the number of pixels thereof, such as a standard video signal having a screen aspect ratio of 4:3 and a wide video signal having an aspect ratio of 16:9 the data quantity after encoding is equalized without increasing the compression ratio of the video signal having the larger number of pixels. An encoding apparatus performs intraframe encoding of the standard video signal so that the coded data quantity is constant in every frame, and interframe encoding of the wide video signal in each two frames so that the coded data quantity is constant in every two frames.

Standard screen image and wide screen image selective receiving and

A video signal recording method and apparatus for-recording each field of a video signal as a plurality of segments on respective tracks of a magnetic tape, in which each segment consists of a sequentially-ordered set of scanning lines which constitute a fraction of the total scanning lines of the field and which extend substantially over the entire field, for example all of the even-numbered or all of the odd-numbered lines of the field. Since each recording track contains scanning lines extending sequentially over one field, a playback signal providing a correctly ordered display image is obtained for playback operation at speeds higher or lower than the standard speed, while utilizing the same recording and playback signal processing circuits as are utilized during standard speed operation.

Video signal recording method and apparatus for field-segment recording

A video signal recording and playback apparatus for recording each field of a video signal as a plurality of segments on a plurality of tracks, including a circuit for inserting segment index signals after conversion of the video signal to a recording signal, to be recorded together with the recording signal to designate the respective segments. During varied-speed playback operation, the segment index signals are detected in the playback signal, and the data thus obtained are used to control the operation of a memory which temporarily stores successively produced portions of the playback signal. A playback signal can thereby be obtained by combining output signals from the memory, which will produce a satisfactory display image during varied-speed playback operation, e.g. during high-speed playback, with only simple signal processing being required.

Video signal recording and playback apparatus having varied-speed

Disclosed is a video signal recording system, in which the input video signal is rid of unneeded portions, transformed on the time axis and divided into n channels so that they are recorded in a bandwidth narrower than 1/n of original one. The system also enhances the latitude in choosing a clock frequency for time-axis conversion and a track width, thereby optimizing the picture quality and recording time length on a trade-off basis.

Video signal recording method and associated recording/reproducing

A video signal recording and playback apparatus and method which is applicable to wide-band recording in which a video signal is divided into a plurality of channels by time-axis expansion, and the channels are recorded in parallel on respective tracks. Prior to recording, a reference signal consisting of a plurality of different signal bursts, each having a specific frequency and each being superimposed on a specific DC level, is inserted into blanking intervals of the video signal and recorded therewith. On playback, the amplitudes of the signal bursts in the reference signal are monitored, and playback equalizers are controlled accordingly such as to maintain a predetermined equalizer characteristic and to maintain identical overall frequency characteristics for the various channels.

Method and apparatus for video signal recording and playback signal

A signal processing circuit for a video recording and reproducing apparatus comprises a ramp inserting circuit for inserting a ramp waveform at periodic intervals into a video signal during recording. The ramp waveform varies linearly as a function of time from the minimum to the maximum level of the video signal. On playback, the inserted ramp is periodically detected from a reproduced video signal by a ramp detector. The waveform of the detected ramp is corrected to improve its signal-to-noise ratio by an averaging circuit and applied to a transfer circuit having a transfer function describing the relationship between the original ramp waveform and the corrected ramp waveform. The waveform of the reproduced video signal is transformed according to the transfer function.

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Shigeru Awamoto