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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7400352 | Method of estimating electrical cross talk in an array of imaging cells The electrical cross talk in color solid-state image sensor is estimated or characterized by acquiring image data from an array of imaging cells which is a portion of a much larger array, extracting cross talk data from the acquired image data, and characterizing th... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7224645 | Optical information processing system using optical aberrations and information medium having recording layer protected by transparent layer having thickness irregularity A thickness servo system using optical aberrations, wherein a photodetector detects an aberration amount corresponding to thickness irregularity, and a thickness irregularity correction section operates to minimize the detected aberration amount. The thickness irreg... | 05/29/2007 |
| 6975136 | Isolated channel in an integrated circuit A semiconductor package contains at least one electrically isolated channel. The isolated channel is minimally susceptible to crosstalk from other channels in the package. Specifically, the level of crosstalk that may impinge on the isolated channel is below an acce... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6934466 | Buzz reduction circuit and TV/VCR combo using the same Buzz reduction circuit for eliminating a vertical period buzz without being influenced by amplifier circuits in an audio signal line. A video signal of a VCR video head is input to a vertical synchronizing signal separating circuit to separate a vertical synchronizi... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6925244 | Apparatus for recording/reproducing high resolution video signal A video signal recording/reproducing apparatus for recording/reproducing a high resolution video signal wherein the video resolution is enhanced by shifting a carrier frequency to a higher band in frequency modulation in a VCR's video signal recording mode, and by d... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6900848 | Crosstalk reduction in a video signal selector A video signal input selector is subject to cross coupling between selectable video signals. The input selector comprises a video amplifier coupled to amplify a video signal selected from said selectable video signals. A controllable switch has first and second elem... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6898028 | Optical device and optical reproducing apparatus An optical reproducing apparatus in which reproduction of information is carried out by using an optical record carrier. In order to compensate a radial tilt between the surface of the record carrier and the objective lens, the objective lens is tilted. In the optic... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6832041 | VIDEO RECORDING SYSTEM UTILIZING HOST-PROCESSOR-RESIDENT ERROR RECOVERY TO TRANSFER NON-TIME-CRITICAL, ERROR-INTOLERANT DATA SEGMENTS WHILE TRANSFERRING TIME-CRITICAL, ERROR-TOLERANT STREAMING DATA SEGMENTS AT A REQUIRED DATA TRANSFER RATE The present invention may be regarded as a video recording system and method of transferring a non-time-critical, error-intolerant data segment stored or to be stored on a disk drive, which is responsive to a set of data transfer commands generated by a host process... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6631242 | Apparatus for recording and reproducing digital picture data In an apparatus for recording and reproducing a digital picture signal, the large number of data bits in the digital picture signal to be recorded is reduced by a ratio of approximately 1:9, and the thus compressed data are recorded with a recording densi... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6385391 | Video tape reproducing apparatus In a video tape reproducing apparatus, there is provided an integrated circuit in which an audio signal amplifier for amplifying an audio signal reproduced by a fixed type audio head, and a control signal amplifier for amplifying a control signal reproduc... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6072594 | Information signal reproducing apparatus with noise processing An information signal recording apparatus for recording an information signal having a predetermined frequency band onto a recording medium, which comprises signal separating means for receiving said information signal and for separating the received info... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6038372 | Crosstalk removing apparatus during digital magnetic reproduction A crosstalk removing apparatus for digital magnetic reproduction is provided in which a clamp circuit is connected between a playback amplifier and a playback equalizer. An effect of crosstalk from a neighboring track is effectively removed using the clam... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5991108 | Recording and reproducing apparatus In a recording and reproducing apparatus having a simultaneous reproducing function, an adaptive filter outputs a pseudo crosstalk signal which approximates to frequency characteristics of crosstalk components leaking from recording data into a reproduced... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5870239 | Magnetic reproduction apparatus provided with a cross talk reduction system A magnetic reproduction apparatus with a cross-talk reduction system that includes first and second magnetic heads, wherein the distance between the first magnetic head which has a plus azimuth angle and the second magnetic head which has a minus azimuth ... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5870361 | Device and system for reading recording media with cross-talk correction circuitry A device and system for the reading of a recording medium, which enables the reading of high-density information and the removal of disturbance (or cross-talk) from the information. The invention includes chiefly a reading device carrying out the parallel... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5748833 | Still video apparatus having data signal suppression A still video apparatus including a picture signal reproducing device and a data signal reproducing device for reproducing picture signals and DPSK modulation data signals, recorded on a magnetic disk, and a control unit which, upon play-back, commences t... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5703845 | Reading device with cross-talk correction of two signal trains A reading head has odd and even elemental areas for reading corresponding odd and even information segments that alternate to make up a frame of information on a record medium. The odd elemental areas provide a train of sequential odd information segments... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5701283 | Method and apparatus for high speed optical storage device Methods and apparatus are provided for simultaneously reading data from multiple tracks of an optical disk at a high rate. Circuitry is provided for use with a detector matrix to read and buffer data in parallel from the multiple adjacent tracks, while as... | 12/23/1997 |
| 5671101 | Tracking control circuit for maintaining substantial balance between reproduced signal levels from plural rotary magnetic heads when tracking control is applied in respect to only one of the heads A magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus includes a rotary drum that has a magnetic tape wound around the drum and first and second magnetic heads mounted on the drum for scanning the magnetic tape as the tape is advanced to reproduce an information... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5585973 | Magnetic recorder and/or reproducer of eliminating crosswalk interference in both a long time record mode and a standard record mode A magnetic recorder and/or reproducer is provided for preventing a crosstalk phenomenon from occurring between adjacent tracks by a "wide head" during "long time" record mode. The magnetic recorder and/or reproducer includes a rotation drum which has a pa... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5572331 | Video signal recording format, deep recording/reproducing apparatus and method therefor A video signal recording format, a deep recording/reproducing apparatus of a video signal and method therefor includes a recording system in which a digital video signal of one frame is divided into a predetermined number of segments and recorded on a sur... | 11/05/1996 |
| 5532834 | Video cassette recorder capable of automatically removing interferences between a recording signal and a broadcast signal A recording apparatus, for use in a video cassette recorder ("VCR") equipped with a timer recording feature is capable of eliminating an interference between a first broadcast signal selected by a VCR tuner and a second broadcast signal captured by a tele... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5483515 | Apparatus and method for cancelling cross-talk in signals from optical data storage systems A system is disclosed for canceling cross-talk in a data read signal from an optical data storage medium. The system includes three AD converters for receiving read signals from three read sensors, and the read signals respectively represent data from a c... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5481369 | Crosstalk detector for optically read signals A crosstalk detector for detecting the crosstalk of signals optically read from a recording medium having a plurality of tracks. A changeover circuit selects one of first and second signals generated by first and second oscillators. The amplitude of a sig... | 01/02/1996 |
| 5369531 | Digital video signal recording apparatus with leading and trailing heads displaced by a distance less than the distance between the ending edge of an auxiliary recording area and the starting edge of the video signal recording area A digital video tape recorder includes a rotary drum that has a leading head and a trailing head mounted thereon for recording video signals in respective slant tracks scanned on the tape while the tape is advanced. Each of the tracks includes, in sequenc... | 11/29/1994 |
| 5361136 | Apparatus for detecting crosstalk in reproduced high-vision signal A crosstalk detecting apparatus for detecting crosstalk which may occur upon reading an FM-modulated signal recorded on a recording medium, wherein the crosstalk detecting apparatus outputs a crosstalk amount from an adjacent track based on a signal read ... | 11/01/1994 |
| 5321519 | Crosstalk detector for optically read signals A crosstalk detector for detecting the crosstalk of signals optically read from a recording medium having a plurality of tracks. The read signal levels between adjacent tracks at the positions where crosstalk detecting signals are recorded are compared an... | 06/14/1994 |
| 5319625 | Apparatus using demodulators to detect crosstalk from a signal read from a recording medium This invention relates to a crosstalk detecting apparatus for detecting crosstalk which can occur when an image signal FM-modulated and recorded on a recording medium is read. The crosstalk detecting apparatus calculates a valve indicative of the amount o... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5294995 | Video disc reproducing apparatus with phase shifter to eliminate inter-modulation distortion between reproduced audio and video signals A reproducing apparatus for a video disc which detects a residual spurious component included in a reproduced video signal, and signal levels of a pair of cross carrier components are controlled and composed in accordance with the detected residual spurio... | 03/15/1994 |
| 5241538 | Transmission apparatus Satellite transmission sometimes uses a method of modulating by a sub signal a subcarrier with a frequency set higher than that of a main signal and subjecting the main carrier to frequency modulation by the resulting baseband signal. This method is, howe... | 08/31/1993 |
| 5157558 | Video recording unit featuring switching logic means for generating phase shifting matrix groups A device for recording FM signals in helical-scan tracks of a video magnetic tape has a phase shifter disposed between an FM modulator and a write-head configuration, which subjects the FM signal from the FM modulator to a phase shift. The phase shifter d... | 10/20/1992 |
| 5153872 | Information recording device that eliminates cross-talk using inverse components thereof There is disclosed an information recording device composed of a memory for storing an original signal from a plurality of adjacent tracks, and a computational circuit for generating an inverse number component of a crosstalk component which is considered... | 10/06/1992 |
| 5065253 | Disk player with disk tilt or pickup position responsive noise reduction In a disk player, a tilt detection signal is generated corresponding to a tilt of a recording surface of a disk relative to a reference plane depending on a position of a pickup or a pickup radial position is generated. A reproduced video signal is passed... | 11/12/1991 |
| 4941055 | Recording apparatus with improved S/N ratio An information signal recording apparatus for recording an information signal having a predetermined frequency band onto a recording medium, which comprises signal separating means for receiving said information signal and for separating the received info... | 07/10/1990 |
| 4852074 | Method of measurement of crosstalk noise in playback information signal A method of measuring the level of crosstalk noise in a playback signal produced from a recording disk such as a video disk, first and second signals of mutually different frequencies are recorded in respective sections of a track in a periodically altern... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4851909 | Method and apparatus for maintaining audio/ video synchronism in a television signal read-out from a digital buffer memory by a reference signal Both the analog and the video component of a television signal are converted to digital form, the audio component being converted at a much lower sample rate with a word length which is an integral multiple of the video word length. The digital audio comp... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4774597 | Quadrature head dual channel VCR Two pairs of opposing magnetic heads mounted in quadrature on a rotary drum simultaneously receive two independent video channels, one channel being quadrature-delayed with respect to the other. The heads simultaneously record the two video channels in ad... | 09/27/1988 |
| 4723295 | Recording disk data playback apparatus A recording disk data playback apparatus capable of playback of recording disks having digitized audio data recorded thereon and disks having audio data recorded in analog form, by FM modulation, as well as disks having both digital and analog forms of au... | 02/02/1988 |
| 4698697 | Method and system for recording video information with a phase control operation by which a phase value of a recording RF signal of each 1H period is desirably adjusted In order to reduce a crosstalk component contained in a playback video signal reproduced from a recording medium such as a video disc, method and system for recording a video information comprises a step for recording a video signal in a manner that an ab... | 10/06/1987 |
| 4679099 | Information signal reproducing apparatus The disclosed information signal reproducing apparatus reproduces information signals from a recording medium with a number or tracks. Four pilots signals having different frequencies from one another are recorded successively on the tracks along with inf... | 07/07/1987 |
