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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 1984
Filed:
Apr. 08, 1981
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
360-91 ; 360 191 ; 360 331 ; 358343 ;
Abstract
A digital video and audio data recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes a plurality of rotary magnetic heads provided in association with a tape guide drum assembly having a periphery about which a magnetic tape is helically transported at a predetermined wrap angle, a time compressing circuit for time compressing digitized audio and video data, a multiplexing circuit for mixing the digitized audio and video data to form a mixed signal, a processing circuit for processing the mixed signal, and a signal distributing circuit for supplying the processed mixed signal to each of the rotary magnetic heads so that the latter record the processed mixed signal on the magnetic tape.