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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 1995
Filed:
Oct. 06, 1993
Isao Saito, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In rotary head reproducing apparatus of the type having heads which scan successive tracks on a record medium that is movable at a controllable speed, wherein such tracks contain a pattern of tracking control signals that are used by a servo control arrangement to determine and correct tracking errors, at least one of the tracking control signals that are reproduced from the tracks is detected, and if that tracking control signal is not sensed for a predetermined time interval, the speed at which the record medium is driven is changed to a predetermined speed (e.g. greater or less than the normal speed), thereby forcing tracking errors. This prevents lock-up which could occur when the tracks which are scanned by the heads are precisely out-of-phase from the correct tracks.