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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 1996
Filed:
Nov. 14, 1994
Hiromi Nakase, Osaka, JP;
Wataru Masuda, Hirakata, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An optical recording and reproducing apparatus records the audio and video signals to an optical disk by dividing the audio and video signals for one frame into top and bottom audio and video signal components. The top and bottom audio signal component are recorded to a predetermined track on disk sides A and B referenced to the rotation position detection information preformatted thereon, respectively. A mode set panel produces a mode signal for switching the operating mode. A mode determiner produces the head operation mode signal for determining the operating mode of the optical heads based on the signal. Top and bottom heads record and reproduce audio and video signals to or from the two sides A and B, respectively. Top and bottom vertical synchronization mark generators produce the vertical synchronization marks from the sector of the optical disk preformatted for recording and reproducing audio and video signals. Head actuators drive the pickup. The top head operating mode determiner, to which the operating mode data and the vertical synchronization mark signal are input, determines the operating mode of the top optical head. The bottom head mode determiner, to which the operating mode data and the bottom vertical synchronization mark signal are input, determines the operating mode of the bottom optical head.