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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:
Sep. 21, 1993
Filed:
Feb. 12, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:
Toshiya Asai, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
360 331 ; 360 744 ; 369 32 ; 358335 ;
Abstract
A tape reproducing direction detecting apparatus for a digital VTR in which a reproducing direction of a tape on which each field of a digital video signal is recorded over a plurality of predetermined slant tracks together with a field identifier and a segment identifier is comprised of a track number generating circuit for generating track numbers corresponding to a plurality of the slant tracks on the basis of the field identifier and the segment identifier, and a track number detecting circuit for detecting the increase and decrease of the track numbers.