Victor Company of Japan, Limited

Hitachi, Ltd.

Toyotaka Machida

Yuichi Ikemura

Shunichi Shichijo

Tatsuya Shinyagaito

Atsumi Hirata

Tooru Yamagishi

Hitoshi Aoike

Teruaki Noda

Terumasa Kuramoto

Kikuji Saito

Kazuyoshi Ishii

Yoshinao Kobayashi

Osamu Samuta

Masamichi Sasaki

Toshimasa Kumazaki

Yasuaki Watanabe

Makoto Furihata

Kenji Kaneko

Hiroyuki Bonde

Ken Enami

Kazuyuki Suenaga

Akira Nakamura

Hiroaki Matsumoto

Shigeharu Ueguri

Magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus is constructed in such that a personal computer is electrically connected to the apparatus through connectors, and that a track deviation caused by the apparatus itself is measured through the personal computer by a nondestructive manner upon tape running operation by installing a test magnetic tape formed with recorded tracks having almost no track deviation to the apparatus so as to be helically wound around the rotary drum rotating with magnetic heads in a predetermined angular range and direction. The apparatus has a device for stepwise shifting the magnetic heads in a longitudinal direction of the test magnetic tape for causing the magnetic head positions to displace stepwise and relatively with respect to the tracks along a track traversing line of the recorded tracks in response to a command directed from the personal computer and a device for outputting values of an FM signal measured at a plural measuring points predetermined along a head scanning direction of the recorded track at every stepwise shifted magnetic head positions as the magnetic head scans the recorded tracks of the test magnetic tape. The values of the FM signal outputted from the device are inputted to the personal computer for further processing.

Magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus

Track deviation of a recorded track on a magnetic tape is measured in a non-destructive manner according to a measuring method and an apparatus employing the same. A magnetic tape recorded with an FM signal on its tracks conforming to a standard system, is loaded to the apparatus conforming to the same standard, and having a rotary drum with a head, thereby the tape is transported in a longitudinal direction and scanned helically by the head, the apparatus comprises device for setting measuring points along the tracks, device for stepwise shifting the tape causing head positions to displace stepwise along a track traversing line passing the measuring points perpendicularly to the tracks, device for measuring levels of the FM signal at displaced positions of the head device for converting thus measured levels into digital data, device for estimating, by using the digital data, a specific head position at which a maximum level of the FM signal is reproduced within each of the track traversing line, each specific head position having a positional value and device for subtracting a predetermined positional value from each positional value of the specific rotary head positions located along the tracks, wherein the predetermined positional value is determined to be a track center of standard track having a slant angle conforming to the standard, so that values of the track deviation varying along a track are measured.

Track deviation measuring method and track deviation measuring apparatus

The present invention provides an image processing apparatus for use with an image projector to allow the image projector to project a magnified image on a screen without a trapezoid distortion or a keystone distortion even when a normal line of the screen is declined to an optical axis of a projector lens of the projector. Digital image data from AD converter are stored in the image memory (6-9) through a selector (3). From the image memory, the image data of four pixels nearby a deformed coordinate position are read out through a selector (4). The image data of the deformed coordinate position is obtained by calculating an average of sum of arithmetic results obtained by giving a weight to each of image data of the four pixels. The weight given corresponds to a positional deviation value from the deformed coordinate position to the respective coordinate positions of the four pixels nearby the deformed coordinate position.

Image processing apparatus

An information recording disc has a connecting region formed between a parallel program recorded region containing a plurality of parallel information programs and a single program recorded region containing a single information program which is to be reproduced after one of the parallel information programs is reproduced. Each of the parallel program recorded region and the connecting region includes track turns having vertical blanking parts recorded with vertical blanking periods of video signals, and at least one of the vertical blanking parts in each track turn is recorded with an address signal including a first code indicating whether an information program recorded in a track turn of a region is a single information program or a parallel information program, a second code indicating whether the region is the parallel program recorded region or the connecting region, a fourth code indicating the number of information programs recorded in the region, and a fifth code indicating the program number of the program recorded in the region. A reproducing apparatus includes a reproducing element for reproducing information signals from the disc, and the reproducing element is kicked within the vertical blanking part based on the value of the reproduced fourth code during a normal reproduction of a parallel information program.

Information signal recording disc comprising a connected region formed

An information signal recording disc comprises a first recorded region in which an information signal at least including a video signal is recorded, and a second recorded region in which an end signal is intermittently recorded. The end signal is used to forcibly and automatically return a reproducing element of a disc reproducing apparatus from a playing position to a rest position. The second recorded region is provided at a position prior to the first recorded region in a direction of a reproducing sequence of the recorded signals on the information signal recording disc. The disc reproducing apparatus comprises a detecting circuit for detecting the reproduced end signal, and a controller. The controller controls the detecting circuit so that the detecting circuit is made substantially inoperative in a state where the disc reproducing apparatus is coupled to an external device having a discriminating function.

Information signal recording disc recorded with an end signal for

A signal recording system for recording signals on a disc comprises a circuit for generating a modulated signal by subjecting a control program to a self clock modulation based on a reference clock and then to a band limitation to an audio signal band, which control program is transmitted in terms of blocks each having a fixed length, a circuit for generating a block discrimination signal for discriminating a beginning or end of each block, which block discriminating signal has a fundamental frequency which is different from the reference clock frequency of the modulated signal and is within the audio signal band, a circuit for time-division-multiplexing the block discrimination signal to a time period in which the modulated signal is not transmitted, and a circuit for recording the time division multiplexed signal and at least the video signal on the disc. The control program comprises control commands of a disc reproducing apparatus which plays the disc having track turns recorded with the control program at least together with the video signal and input and output commands and internal processing commands of an external device which has a discriminating function and is coupled to the disc reproducing apparatus.

Signal recording system for recording signals on a rotary recording

A control program signal demodulating device comprises a control program demodulator for obtaining a demodulated output of a control program signal from a signal which is reproduced from a rotary recording medium which is recorded with at least the control program signal together with a video signal, where the control program signal indicates a control program including input and output commands and internal processing commands of an external device such as a computer which has a discriminating function and is coupled to a player which plays the rotary recording medium, a memory circuit for at least temporarily storing the demodulated output of the control program demodulator and producing the stored demodulated output, a selecting circuit for selectively producing data received from the memory circuit in response to a transmission request, an interface circuit for transmitting the data which is produced from the selecting circuit to the external device, and for receiving one or a plurality of control commands from the external device, and a command analyser for decoding one or a plurality of control commands received from the interface circuit, and for generating a signal which controls the operation of the player or a signal which requests transmission with respect to the memory circuit and the selecting circuit.

Control program signal demodulating device

A rotation control apparatus for a motor comprises a motor for rotating or moving a recording medium, a circuit for generating first and second reference signals, a circuit for passing a signal which is obtained by comparing phases of the first reference signal and a synchronizing signal through a filter circuit thereof so as to produce a first error signal therefrom, a circuit for producing a second error signal which is obtained by comparing phases of the second reference signal and the rotation detection signal, and a control circuit for controlling first and second switching circuits. The control circuit supplies a specific signal having a level dependent on the level of the second error signal to a capacitor of the filter circuit through the second switching circuit and selectively passes the second error signal through the first switching circuit when the motor rotates at a rotational speed which is not near a steady state rotational speed. The control circuit blocks the supply of the specific signal to the capacitor by the first switching circuit and selectively passes the first error signal through the first switching circuit when the motor rotates at a rotational speed which is approximately equal to the steady state rotational speed.

Rotation control apparatus for a motor

Disclosed is a synchronizer for establishing synchronism between horizontal and vertical sync pulses of a non-interlaced video signal and those of an interlaced video signal, the number of non-interlaced scan lines being smaller by 2n-1 than the interlaced scan lines, where n is an integer equal to or greater than unity. Two variable frequency clocks are generated, one having a higher frequency variable as a function of a phase difference between the horizontal sync pulses of the two video signals and the other having one half the higher frequency. A first period is defined which runs from a non-interlaced horizontal sync of first occurrence in a given field to a horizontal sync of (n-1)th occurrence in the given field and a second period is defined that runs from the non-interlaced horizontal sync of first occurrence in a subsequent field to a horizontal sync of n-th occurrence in the subsequent field. The higher frequency clock is normally used to generate the non-interlaced horizontal and vertical sync and the lower frequency clock is used instead when vertical sync pulses of the two video signals are mismatched in phase and during the first and second periods to compensate for the difference in scan line number.

Scan line synchronizer

A synchronizing signal generating apparatus comprises a first frequency generator for at least generating a frequency which is 4c times a chrominance subcarrier frequency of B, G, H, and I/systems, where c is a factor of (625.times.n) and n is an arbitrary positive integer, a second frequency generator for generating a frequency which is (11.times.n) times a horizontal scanning frequency, a phase control circuit for comparing phases of an output of a first frequency divider which frequency-divides an output signal frequency of the first frequency generator by 1/64489 and an output of a second frequency divider which frequency-divides an output signal frequency of the second frequency generator by 1/(625.times.n) to supply a phase error signal in accordance with the compared result to the first frequency generator or the second frequency generator to variably control the output signal frequency of the first frequency generator or the second frequency generator, a third frequency divider for frequency-dividing the output signal frequency of the first frequency generator to produce a frequency equal to the chrominance subcarrier frequency, and a fourth frequency divider for frequency-dividing the output signal frequency of the second frequency generator by 1/(11.times.n).

Synchronizing signal generating apparatus

In a video recording system the chroma components of a color television signal are applied to a multiplexer where they are interleaved in frequency with each other so that the energy concentration of each chroma component occurs at frequencies interleaved with the frequencies at which the energy concentration of the other chroma component occurs. The interleaved chroma components and the luminance component are supplied respectively to frequency modulators each producing an output having energies distributed over the full range of the passband of the system. The outputs of the modulators are fed to first and second transducers for recording the luminance and chroma components on adjacent tracks of a recording medium.

Video recording by frequency modulation of luminance and multiplexed

A rotary recording medium is repeatedly recorded with a video signal of the same unit for a plurality of field periods in each track turn, and divided audio signal parts obtained by dividing an audio signal in units of field periods of the video signal which is to be reproduced are successively arranged and recorded on a recording track of the video signal according to a tracing locus or a reproducing element on the rotary recording medium upon normal reproduction during which change of track is performed by forcibly shifting the reproducing element at least once or a plurality of times for two revolution periods of the rotary recording medium. A rotary recording medium reproducing apparatus comprises a reproducing circuit for picking up and reproducing recorded signals from the above rotary recording medium, and a shifting circuit applied with a discrimination signal in accordance with the type of the rotary recording medium and a reproduction mode signal in accordance with a reproduction mode, for shifting the tracing locus of the reproducing element so as to reproduce a video signal of video and audio signals of a reproduction mode specified by the reproduction mode signal.

Rotary recording medium having a selectively reproducible continuous

An automatic white adjusting circuit for a television camera in which a rough adjustment is first performed with an adjustment quantity of large steps, and fine adjustment is secondly performed with an adjustment quantity of small steps, upon automatic adjustment of the white by performing such operations as directing the television camera towards a white surface. According to the automatic white adjusting circuit of the present invention, the adjusting accuracy of the white balance can be improved, and the white adjustment can be performed automatically within a short period of time.

Automatic white adjusting circuit for a television camera

A color picture projection system having a color picture light source and a lens system for magnifying the picture to project the same on a screen is provided with an optical filter for removing the effect of chromatic aberration. The lens system has a simple structure, for instance, two parallel lenses, each designed to pass a given wavelength. In a first embodiment, an annular optical filter partially blocks red and blue light rays incident on one side thereof. In a second embodiment, two coaxial annular optical filters are combined in a single filter to partially block the red light rays incident on a first portion thereof and to partially block red and blue rays incident on a second portion which is outside the first portion.

Color picture projection system

A rotary recording medium reproducing apparatus reproduces a recorded signal from a rotary recording medium by use of a reproducing element. The rotary recording medium is recorded with at least a first carrier signal which is modulated by an information signal having a synchronizing signal of a predetermined frequency. The reproducing apparatus comprises a motor for rotating the rotary recording medium, a reference signal generating circuit for generating a reference signal having a frequency equal to a horizontal scanning frequency of a video signal of a standard television system which is characteristic of the reproducing apparatus and should originally be reproduced, or equal to 1/M (M is an integer) times the above horizontal scanning frequency, a detecting circuit for detecting a signal respective of the rotational speed of the rotary recording medium, and a comparator for comparing the reference signal and the signal respective of the rotational speed of the rotary recording medium, to control the rotational speed of the rotary recording medium by a compared output signal thus obtained, so that the synchronizing signal within the reproduced signal is reproduced at a frequency equal to the horizontal scanning frequency of the above standard television system with which the reproduction should originally be performed.

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Kashiwa, Japan

Toyotaka Machida