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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 1992
Filed:
Sep. 18, 1990
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a digital signal reproducing apparatus having a head on a rotating drum for reproducing a digital signal which includes information data and which was recorded on a magnetic tape running at a speed different from the tape speed during reproducing of the digital signal therefrom; the tape speed and the drum rotation speed are detected during reproducing and corresponding tape speed and drum speed signals, resectively, are generated, a clock signal is formed from the digital signal reproduced by the head and is used in decoding the information data from the reproduced digital signal, and a control device receives the tape speed and drumspeed signals for controlling the drum speed in accordance with the tape speed when the tape speed is at least as large as a first value and for maintaning a fixed drum speed while changing the clock signal in accordance with the tape speed when the tape speed is at least as large as a second value greater than the first value.