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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 1997
Filed:
Jun. 20, 1994
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A video tape recorder is provided which is capable of handling plural television standards. The tape recorder includes a video signal processing unit for recording and reproducing video signals selectively in plural television standards, a television standards converter for performing a conversion operation by converting a video signal in a first one of the television standards into a video signal of a second one of the television standards, and a convert control unit for controlling the conversion operation of the television standards converter to operate in (1) a recording mode to convert an input video signal in a first one of the television standards into a second one of the television standards and to provide the converted input video signal to the processing unit for recording and (2) a reproducing mode to convert a reproduced video signal, received from the processing unit, in a first one of the television standards into a second one of the television standards and to output the converted reproduced video signal.