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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 1985
Filed:
Jun. 02, 1982
Susumu Nomura, Tokorozawa, JP;
Katsuharu Sato, Tokorozawa, JP;
Pioneer Video Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a video and/or audio disc information reproducing apparatus in which the video and/or audio information carried on a video and/or audio disc is picked up with a beam of light incident on the disc to trace the record track on the disc, an error detecting system comprising optical means to emit a beam of light for tracing the record track and producing a signal-carrying beam of light carrying signals picked up from the record track, beam-splitting means to split the signal-carrying beam into two component beams, light-sensitive transducer means responsive to the component beams and having at least four discrete light-sensitive surfaces separate from one another across a first junction line parallel with a line tangent to the record track and a second junction line parallel with a line perpendicular to the record track, the transducer means being operative to produce a first error signal representative of the difference between the intensities of light incident on the light-sensitive surfaces separate from each other across the first junction line and a second error representative of the difference between the intensities of the light respectively incident on the light-sensitive surfaces separate across the second junction line.