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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5247400 | Tape reproducing direction detecting apparatus for a digital VTR 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 s... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5239430 | Digital information signal reproducing apparatus for reproducing a digital audio signal at a reproducing speed different from the recording speed In a digital information signal reproducing apparatus in which a first digital audio signal and a second digital audio signal having the same contents are recorded on two oblique tracks which are close to each other on a record tape while the latter is ru... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5239432 | Magnetic tape cassette having a slot for inserting a recording and/or reproducing head therethrough and a magnetic tape recording and/or reproducing apparatus for use with such magnetic tape cassette A magnetic tape recording and/or reproducing apparatus which comprises a tape cassette mounting portion and a rotary head portion which are relatively movable toward to and separating from each other, the rotary head portion being provided with a recordin... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5237554 | Apparatus for generating clock signals for data reproduction An apparatus for phase correction of clock signal used for data reproduction employs reference clock signals recorded with the data to select the optimum phase increment for outside clock signals generated from preformed patterns on the recording medium. ... | 08/17/1993 |
| 5233316 | Digital voltage controlled oscillator having a ring oscillator with selectable output taps A digital VCO is disclosed which comprises a ring oscillator formed of a plurality of inverters connected in series, each inverter being capable of controlling its delay amount, a frequency controlling circuit for controlling the oscillation frequency of ... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5233422 | Apparatus for selectively enlarging or reducing an area of a reproduced television picture A television signal receiving apparatus for receiving a high definition television signal comprises, a receiving circuit for receiving the high definition television signal and for generating a high definition video signal, a converting circuit for conver... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5233478 | Apparatus for recording a digital signal composed of different types of data An apparatus for recording a digital signal composed of a plurality of different types of data. A plurality of rotary heads are coupled together to form a head unit, in which the heads are spaced from each other by predetermined distance in a track pitch ... | 08/03/1993 |
| 5224643 | Tape guide system with temperature compensation for drive signal In a tape guide system having a tape guide device for guiding a magnetic tape in a video tape recorder or the like and which comprises a tape guide and an ultrasonic vibrator fixed to the tape guide for vibrating the tape guide with a standing wave, a dri... | 07/06/1993 |
| 5223944 | Method and apparatus for transmitting video signals during first and second portions thereof In transmitting, for example, by recording and reproducing, fields of video signals each having a core portion and side portions adjacent to such core portion and comprised of luminance and chrominance signals, the luminance signal which is desirably freq... | 06/29/1993 |
| 5216647 | Target track position retrieval device This invention is directed to a target track retrieval device comprising a signal playback apparatus for playing back signals from information tracks recorded on a rotary disc rotatably driven at constant linear velocity, a movement circuit for moving the... | 06/01/1993 |
| 5208875 | Digital picture signal processing apparatus A digital picture signal processing apparatus has memories each capable of storing digital words representing respective pixels which, when arranged in a two-dimensional array, make up a picture. A read address generator produces a digital read address id... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5208669 | Up-conversion of a video signal format with expansion of active portion of video field A digital video signal is real-time converted from a conventional definition format, such as 525 lines, 60 field/s, 2:1 interlace, with a 4:3 aspect ratio and 720×486 active pixels, to a high definition format, such as 1125 lines, 60 field/s, 2:1 interla... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5206919 | Image signal processing with digital filtering to minimize aliasing caused by image manipulation An image signal processing apparatus has an address generator that generates addresses for successive words of a digital input signal representing an input image to be manipulated. A computation circuit monitors the addresses for successive word sets whic... | 04/27/1993 |
| 5206729 | Image switching apparatus for producing special video effects Image switching apparatus for selecting first or second video signals to be broadcasted, displayed or recorded, thereby producing special video effects. The output of a random noise generator is filtered by a filtering device having a variable filter char... | 04/27/1993 |
| 5200935 | Recording apparatus using magneto-optical effect including control means for inhibiting energizing of the light beam generating means in responsive to coded data In a recording apparatus employing a magneto-optical effect, and in which a light beam irradiates a region of a magneto-optical disc while a magnetic field acts on the disc at such region and is modulated by coded data in accordance with a predetermined m... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5200833 | Signal level clamping apparatus for a CTDM video signal A signal level clamping apparatus for a CTDM video signal used for a time-base correction apparatus has a clamping circuit supplied with a reproduced color difference signal wherein, between adjacent two horizontal sync. signals, a first and second time-c... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5198813 | Digital recording system with (8,16,2,5) run length limited (RLL) code A digital modulation system is disclosed in which a string of input data is divided at intervals of 8 bits and the resulting 8-bit data words are converted into 16-bit modulated digital code data words. Code conversion is made so that the resulting 16-bit... | 03/30/1993 |
| 5199030 | Digital signal transmission device A digital signal transmission device for reproducing plural channel informational data from a digital signal formed of plural channels of informational data accompanied by channel identification data for identifying the channels in which the informational... | 03/30/1993 |
| 5198951 | Tape cassette with magnetic tape outlets openable and closable by lids A tape cassette for use in a magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus, such as a video tape recorder (VTR), includes a cassette casing having a front wall provided with tape outlets in its opposite side portions, a mouth area between the tape outlets ... | 03/30/1993 |
| 5198902 | Apparatus and method for processing a video signal containing single frame animation material Apparatus for processing a video signal derived by single frame animation for subsequent merging with live action material, comprises a motion vector estimator (11) for deriving motion vectors in dependence on motion in the picture sequence represented by... | 03/30/1993 |
| 5198900 | Video signal encoding apparatus A video signal encoding system is arranged in such a manner that an input video signal is subjected to a high efficiency encoding process so as to be a difference signal before it is transformed in a discrete cosine transformation. The discrete cosine tra... | 03/30/1993 |
| 5196979 | Magnetic head position measuring device A magnetic head position detecting device having enhanced miniaturization and improved measuring accuracy. In the device, the output light beam of a light source is reflected by a first mirror so as to be applied to a rotary drum or the slide contact surf... | 03/23/1993 |
| 5196931 | Highly efficient coding apparatus producing encoded high resolution signals reproducible by a VTR intended for use with standard resolution signals A highly efficient coding apparatus encodes high resolution digital video data so it can be decoded as either high resolution format or standard resolution format video data. The high resolution video data is divided into blocks, and then into sub-blocks ... | 03/23/1993 |
| 5197047 | Automatic transmission system multi-channel scheduling A method of merging playlists each for a single channel for simultaneous transmission over a network by a multi-channel automatic transmission system (1) which replaces the functions previously performed in a network studio (100) by a number of single cha... | 03/23/1993 |
| 5194956 | Lens and aperture control apparatus Lens control apparatus for use in a video camera in which an object is imaged through an adjustable lens onto an image pick-up element from which a video signal is derived. The lens is driven for focus or zoom adjustments by servo control at a rate determ... | 03/16/1993 |
| 5194939 | Digital video signal processing apparatus for data rate down-conversion with half-band filtering A digital video signal processing apparatus for reducing the data rate of, and interpolating digital, video signals of a component format. The apparatus comprises a half-band high pass filter having a coefficient profile equivalent to that obtained by set... | 03/16/1993 |
| 5193035 | Apparatus and method for phase correction of a clock signal by controlling the variable delaying thereof In a playback phase correction apparatus for a video recorder, a signal level of an input signal is compared with predetermined reference levels at times according to a playback clock signal. The apparatus operates to continuously detect whether the phase... | 03/09/1993 |
| 5192949 | Digital data transmission system having error detecting and correcting function In an information data recording and reproducing device which can record and reproduce input information data accurately, an error correction code of the product sign format is added to the input information data to form coded data. The coded data are the... | 03/09/1993 |
| 5191436 | Method for recording coded motion picture data Coded moving picture data is recorded in groups of frames, each frame representing a video image frame and each group being formed of intraframe, interframe and interpolated frame coded data signals. Typically, at least one interpolated frame coded data i... | 03/02/1993 |
| 5191432 | Method of recording and reproducing color video signal with type codes to indicate type of chrominance signal A color video signal recording and reproducing method for recording and reproducing a color line sequential TCI signal which prevents, upon different speed reproduction, a possible displacement in hue of a reproduction color video signal. First and second... | 03/02/1993 |
| 5191427 | Video post-production of material acquired on film Apparatus for converting, for example, 24 Hz 1:1 format film to, for example, a 60 Hz 2:1 interlace format video signal comprises a converter (12) for transferring 24 Hz 1:1 format film material to a 60 Hz 2:1 interlace format video signal using 3 2 3 2 p... | 03/02/1993 |
| 5191493 | Cassette ejecting mechanism of a tape player A cassette ejecting mechanism of a tape player includes a cassette holder having a portion to be locked and a head drum withdrawal lever having a lock portion. When the cassette holder is moved to a loading position, the lock portion of the head drum with... | 03/02/1993 |
| 5189650 | Magneto-optical signal reproducing apparatus in which reproduced magneto-optical signal level is compared with reference signal level varied in accordance with in-phase signal In a magneto-optical signal reproducing apparatus for reading out a signal recorded on a magneto-optical recording medium by an optical pickup device so as to provide a magneto-optical signal which, in turn, is level-discriminated on the basis of a refere... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5185707 | Focusing apparatus and digital filters for use therewith A lens focusing system in which predetermined signal components in a video signal are detected for focusing an image by maximizing the predetermined signal components, includes a lens for focusing an image on an image pickup device operative to convert li... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5185740 | Information transmitting device In an information transmitting device which transmits information in a preamble portion and a plurality of data blocks as a unitary set, when a block synchronizing code in the data blocks is detected, the timing of the detection and the block synchronizin... | 02/09/1993 |
| 5184261 | Various-sized-cassette housing shelf In a cassette housing shelf for accommodating various sized cassettes in cassette auto-changers or the like, a guiding block for guiding a small-sized cassette is provided near to a cassette inlet of a cassette housing portion formed upon the shelf. When ... | 02/02/1993 |
| 5184228 | Recording circuit for mirror mother tape In a recording apparatus for a mirror mother tape to be used in a contact-type magnetic printing process, a chrominance signal of an incoming color video signal is converted into a down converted chrominance signal having a reduced frequency fC, a beat ca... | 02/02/1993 |
| 5182677 | Editing system and method of editing wherein a common scene is recorded asynchronously different media Video program information is edited from plural prerecorded source media onto an edited record medium. Each source medium includes video program information of a common scene which may be recorded at a location on the medium relative to a beginning locati... | 01/26/1993 |
| 5182640 | Program transmission system and method In a broadcast program transmission control apparatus and method using a scheduling computer to produce program scheduling signals representing a schedule of programs to be generated at predetermined times by respective ones of a plurality of program gene... | 01/26/1993 |
| 5182636 | Color video camera with auto-white balance control In a color video camera providing color video signal components corresponding to a light image projected on an image pickup, only the levels of the color video signals components which correspond to at least substantially white regions of the light image ... | 01/26/1993 |
