Sony Corporation

Yosuke Otsu

Tamon Ikeda

Kikuo Yamamoto

A tape counter for counting an amount of tape by which a tape has run for a video signal recording and reproducing apparatus and method therefor, in which the number of frames on tape tracks over which each rotary head scans are counted according to a change in level of an envelope of a reproduced FM signal detected through each rotary head, the number of rotations of a rotary drum on which the rotary head is mounted is counted, and the amount of tape by which the tape has run is counted on the basis of the number of frames scanned by the rotary head and the number of rotations of the drum. The tape counter detects the amount of tape by which the tape has run in all running modes during a reproduction operation with a high accuracy and displays the amount of tape by which the tape has run in a series of units of hours, minutes, and seconds.

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Tokyo, Japan

Yosuke Otsu