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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7265661 | Display system for vehicle and method of controlling the same A display system for a vehicle is provided with a sensor sensing a traveling condition of a vehicle, an image pick-up device executing an image pick-up to take an image of an outside of the vehicle, a display displaying the image taken by the image pick-up device, a... | 09/04/2007 |
| 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 |
| 6904232 | Method and apparatus for seeking the burst cutting area of DVD media Methods and apparatus for reading data from the burst cutting area of a digital video disc. The present location of an optical head assembly is determined. The distance from the present location of the optical head assembly to the burst cutting area is calculated. T... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6895173 | Combined DVD/CD data processor A combined DVD/CD (Digital Video Disk/Compact Disk) data processor used in a DVD/CD player. The DVD/CD data processor includes a PLL (Phase Locked Loop) to receive a pulse stream input to generate a PLL clock; a frame/ID synchronization detector to latch the pulse s... | 05/17/2005 |
| 6823128 | Signal processing apparatus A signal processing apparatus including a write controller. This write controller specifies a start position of an effective time period of each field, based on an ID signal superimposed over lines 15 to 18 of an odd numbered field video signal and ove... | 11/23/2004 |
| 5920676 | Apparatus and method for removing noise bar A reproduction control apparatus and method in a video cassette recorder (VCR) reduces for reducing noise generated during a high-speed search of a picture in the VCR . In the reproduction control method in a forward high-search mode, it is determined whe... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5887113 | Apparatus and method for controlling tracking in slow mode playback An apparatus and a method of controlling tracking in slow mode playback. The tracking control apparatus comprises a video head for detecting a video signal recorded on a magnetic tape, a video signal processing circuit for detecting envelopes of the detec... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5778138 | Magnetic recording and reproduction apparatus for preventing fixed pattern noise from appearing in a reproduced image when reproducing at high speed A magnetic recording and reproduction apparatus wherein the drum motor is controlled so that the rotation number of the drum during playback at the normal speed multiplied by N (N is an integer) changes by a fixed factor to R(1+q/Q) (Q, q are integers sat... | 07/07/1998 |
| 5737139 | Digest variable speed reproducing apparatus for a video cassette recorder and method therefor A digest variable speed reproducing apparatus for a video cassette recorder (VCR) including a system controller for supplying a desired variable speed data; a control signal detector for detecting a control signal written onto a VCR tape together with an ... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5677807 | Method and apparatus for generating a control signal A method of generating a control signal is comprised of the steps of detecting a drum rotational amount on the basis of a switching signal which switches a plurality of rotary heads, detecting a displacement amount of a control signal on the basis of a si... | 10/14/1997 |
| 5664045 | Video signal processor for compensating skew and eliminating noise A video signal processor for compensating for skew and eliminating noise operable during a high speed search mode of operation includes a synchronizing signal generator receiving a clock and generating a pseudo horizontal sync signal, a controller, initia... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5469269 | High speed optical information system and method A high speed optical information search system, comprising a scanning device means for scanning along the vertical lines on the optical magnetic tape, a pick-up device for sensing and accumulating data of the tape and for shift-transmitting and outputting... | 11/21/1995 |
| 5436729 | Video signal processing apparatus with automatic picture quality control function and signal processing circuit A video signal processing apparatus with an automatic picture quality control function comprises a reproduction unit for reproducing a video signal from a video signal recording medium, an APL detector and a noise detector for detecting as a DC potential ... | 07/25/1995 |
| 5272541 | Circuit for controlling picture quality in a video reproducing apparatus A circuit for controlling picture quality of a video reproducing apparatus, wherein the circuit optimally compensates the frequency characteristic at different magnitudes according to the degree of minuteness of the reproduced video signal. The circuit fo... | 12/21/1993 |
| 5208677 | Video signal reproducing apparatus A video signal reproducing apparatus plays back at a high speed a recorded signal recorded on a recording medium, eliminating noise bars in the reproduced image by replacing a noise portion, that is, a signal portion reproduced by a magnetic head having a... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5155477 | Video signal display apparatus with a liquid crystal display unit In a video signal display apparatus having a liquid crystal display unit with liquid crystal cells arranged in a matrix for displaying a display signal developed from an input video signal, the supplying of a scanning signal to the liquid crystal display ... | 10/13/1992 |
| 4959732 | Still video signal playback apparatus for converting an input video signal into a noise cancelled, drop-out compensated playback signal A still video signal playback apparatus in which common circuit components are employed so as to be shared among a drop-out compensator circuit, a noise cancel circuit, and an arithmetic mean circuit, thereby simplifying circuit configuration. Furthermore... | 09/25/1990 |
| 4941061 | Noise-free skip search apparatus utilizing a piezo-electric element A noise-free skip search apparatus utilizing a piezo-electric element wherein no noise appears on the screen at the high reproducing speed of a VCR. In the apparatus, a piezo-electric element is shifted according to a multiple angular speed for controllin... | 07/10/1990 |
| 4939593 | Still picture processing apparatus for a still camera In processing a video signal reproduced from a track of a magnetic disc (10), if the reproduction video signal, from one track of the frame recorded on two adjacent tracks, is stored in a memory (34), then the control circuit (20) determines whether the m... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4890169 | Magnetic tape recording and/or reproducing apparatus with slow motion effect A magnetically recorded information reproducing apparatus, of a helical scan type, capable of carrying out a slow motion picture reproduction by repeating a still picture reproduction and a normal picture reproduction alternately by means of at least two ... | 12/26/1989 |
| 4858030 | Reproducing apparatus of a video disc player A reproducing apparatus of a video disc player, wherein for a special reproduction such as a fast forward reproduction, or a reverse reproduction from a CLV disc, a field memory is provided for storing video signals of length of one field. A reading-in op... | 08/15/1989 |
| 4841381 | Still reproduction controlling circuit A still reproduction controlling circuit for controlling a motor driving a tape at a low speed includes a noise detector for detecting a state in which a reproduction output is falling in an FM brilliance signal, a reference pulse generator for generating... | 06/20/1989 |
| 4774598 | Slow-motion device of magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus In a slow-motion device of a helical scan type video tape recorder, detection is effected to detect a noise in a reproduced signal which is caused when the magnetic tape is fed such that the magnetic heads which have reproduced a preceding still image at ... | 09/27/1988 |
| 4764819 | Method and apparatus for helical scan type magnetic recording and reproducing with a rotary magnetic head A VTR of helical scan type includes a rotary magnetic head fixed on an electro-mechanical converter made of a piezoelectric element and adapted to be displaced along the width of a recording track. In this type of VTR, the rotary head can follow the curvi... | 08/16/1988 |
| 4737864 | Still picture recording system with noise detection and frame counting during shift from reproduction of picture in motion to reproduction of still picture including an intermediate slow motion mode A still picture reproducing system for a magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus is disclosed. The system sends one frame in order to shift a reproduction mode from ordinary reproduction to reproduction of a still picture by use of so-called "fine sl... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4686584 | Video signal reproduction apparatus and method having noise reduction for fast video reproduction A magnetic video reproducing apparatus employs a rotating two-head system, a helical scanning system and an azimuth system, and is capable of reproducing a video signal recorded in a recording medium at a high speed faster than the recording speed. The ou... | 08/11/1987 |
| 4649439 | System for reproducing a video signal in a still picture reproduction A system for reproducing a video signal in a still picture reproduction comprises a circuit for generating a still picture reproduction mode signal during a still picture reproduction mode, a circuit for counting a predetermined number of pulses in the ro... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4644414 | Helical scan magnetic recording and reproduction system with head position control A magnetic recording and reproduction system of the helical scan type is disclosed. During the recording process, pilot signals for reproduction tracking control are sequentially recorded by the rotary magnetic head in recording tracks in proximity to eac... | 02/17/1987 |
| 4639792 | Apparatus for decoding video address code signals Apparatus for decoding digitally-coded address signals embedded in video signals recorded on magnetic tape is disclosed. The apparatus can properly decode the address signals at both slow and fast tape speeds and utilizes a variable-frequency oscillator t... | 01/27/1987 |
| 4617598 | Rotary head magnetic recorder/reproducer A helical scanning rotary head type magnetic video recording and reproducing apparatus for recording and reproducing a video signal by two rotary heads having head gap angles which are slightly different from each other and carry out azimuth recording, an... | 10/14/1986 |
| 4581659 | Method and apparatus for reproducing information at variable speeds from a magnetic tape A method and apparatus for reproducing information at variable speeds from a magnetic tape by correcting a deviation between at least one video track of the magnetic tape and a rotating head during a tape stop state of an intermittent drive for a noiseles... | 04/08/1986 |
| 4559567 | Apparatus for recording and/or reproducing video and audio signals For providing high-quality reproduction of audio in a video tape recorder (VTR), the video and audio signals are recorded as first and second mixed signals in successive alternately arranged adjacent first and second parallel record tracks, respectively, ... | 12/17/1985 |
| 4531162 | Noise control circuit for slow-motion/still-motion video reproduction system A video signal slow-motion or still picture reproduction system comprises at least one rotary video head for scanning a tape recorded with an FM video signal on tracks formed obliquely with respect to the longitudinal direction of the tape, a drum pulse o... | 07/23/1985 |
| 4491878 | Apparatus and method for forward/reverse slow motion video reproduction Disclosed is a four-head image reproduction system for performing a slow motion video reproduction in the forward and reverse directions by intermittently repeating stoppage and normal speed operation of a magnetic tape on which images are recorded in acc... | 01/01/1985 |
| 4317140 | Stop and variable-speed motion on segmented-scan tape recording In a segmented helical-scan recorder-playback arrangement, alternate scans of the heads across the tape transduce information relating to the top and bottom of the raster. Noise bands and raster distortion occurring during the crossover of a scanning head... | 02/23/1982 |
| 4163993 | Continuous slow motion automatic tracking system A method and apparatus is disclosed for automatically maintaining a transducing head on the proper track and is particularly adapted for a helical scan recording and reproducing apparatus that is capable of providing special motion effects, such as slow, ... | 08/07/1979 |
