Abstract: The image sensing device is adapted to compose an appropriate single picture from a plurality of pictures of different exposures obtained from the same subject, wherein the camera operation is controlled using as a reference the signal of one of said plurality of pictures of different exposures.

Abstract: A video signal reproducing apparatus having a video camera part which produces a video signal by picking up an image of an object and is arranged in one unified body at least with a reproducing part which reproduces a video signal from a recording medium is arranged to selectively supply the video signal obtained by picking up the object's image or the reproduced video signal obtained from the recording medium to one and the same signal processing means. The disclosed arrangement not only permits simplification of the apparatus but also enables the apparatus to reproduce a high quality video signal.

Abstract: A video signal processing system for use in an apparatus that handles a composite color television signal having therein frequency-multiplexed luminance and chrominance signals frequency-multiplexed in the composite color television signal are separated, comprises: remark picture element signal extracting circuitry for taking part of the composite color television signal as a remark picture element signal and extracting the remark picture element signal from the composite color television signal; reference picture element signal extracting circuitry for taking the composite color television signal whose chrominance signal frequency-mutliplexed therein is of the reverse phase to the chrominance signal frequency-multiplexed in the remark picture element signal as a reference picture element signal and extracting a plurality of the reference picture signals from the composite color television signal; selecting circuitry for selecting out of the plurality of reference picture element signals extracted by the refe

Abstract: An apparatus for reproducing an information signal from a recording medium on which many tracks are formed, by periodically tracing the recording medium with a recording head. The position of the reproducing head relative to the recording medium is controlled on the basis of a tracking error signal which is obtained from the signals reproduced by the reproducing head. The track pitch is determined by a discrimination of a binary signal which is formed on the basis of a determination of whether the tracking signal is within a predetermined range.

Abstract: An image signal processing apparatus inputs a video signal, delays it by one field using a field memory, multiplies the delayed signal by a value K (K less than 1), adds the output from the multiplication to the input signal and supplies the sum to the field memory. The level of the signal read out from the field memory is compared with a predetermined value, and based on the result of that comparison, the video signal being input is substantially inhibited from being supplied to the adding means. The signal obtained by multiplying the immediately-preceding field signal by k, and the present-field signal, are cyclically added, so that the amplitude can be gradually increased. The comparison inhibits addition of a new field signal when the level of that stored in the field memory has reached a predetermined level.

Abstract: A special effect device comprising a first signal source, a second signal source, subtracting circuit, coefficient multiplying circuit, adding circuit, switch circuit and control circuit. The subtracting circuit is arranged to produce a difference signal between the signals of the first signal source and the second signal source. The coefficient multiplying circuit multiplies the difference from the subtracting circuit by a predetermined coefficient and the adding circuit adds the signals output from the first and second signal sources to the signal output from the multiplying circuit. The switch circuit selectively outputs the output of the first signal source or an output of the adding circuit. The control circuit is arranged to stop the supply of power to at least the subtracting circuit when the switch circuit is selectively outputting the output of the first signal source.

Abstract: A video system is arranged to record, on a second recording medium of a relatively small capacity, a given period portion of a video signal relating to an image plane representing each of varied programs included in the video signal and information on a recorded position of each of the programs on a first recording medium which has a relatively large capacity.

Abstract: A data recorder comprises a first rotary head and a second rotary head which traces a tape-shaped recording medium travelling at a given speed by following recording tracks formed by the first rotary head. When an error of data reproduced from any of the recording tracks by the second rotary head is detected while data is being recorded by the first rotary head, the first rotary head is caused to record, in another track, data which is identical with the data reproduced from the above stated track depending on the data error occurring state of the track.

Abstract: A digital signal recording apparatus includes first circuitry for forming digital video data, and second circuitry for forming digital audio data. Third circuitry is provided for forming (a) video synchronizing blocks each of which comprises a predetermined number of digital video data and synchronizing data, and (b) audio synchronizing blocks each of which comprises a predetermined number of digital audio data and synchronizing data. Recording circuitry is provided for recording the video synchronizing blocks and the audio synchronizing blocks in tracks formed on a recording medium, the tracks being generally aligned in the direction of travel in the recording medium. The recording circuitry includes time-division multiplexing circuitry for time-division multiplexing a predetermined number of video synchronizing blocks and a predetermined number of audio synchronizing blocks to produce a data sequence for each of the tracks.

Abstract: An image information transmission apparatus of this invention encodes and transmits image information. An image information signal of one frame consisting of a plurality of pixel data is divided into a plurality of blocks each consisting of a predetermined number of pixel data. At least two reference value data associated with a dynamic range of levels of the pixel data constituting each of the divided blocks, and distribution state data associated with a distribution state thereof are formed. Each pixel data constituting the block is encoded on the basis of the formed reference value data and the formed distribution state data to obtain encoded data. A transmission data series is formed and transmitted using the formed reference value data, the formed distribution state data, and the encoded data as transmission units. Therefore, the image information signal can be highly effectively transmitted with minimum image quality degradation caused by encoding.

Abstract: A digital signal recording apparatus is provided with data compressing means for reducing the amount of data of digital information supplied; recording means which is arranged to be capable of selectively recording the digital data supplied or digital data compressed by the data compressing means by means of at least one pair of heads; and switching means for switching a cycle in which recording is performed by the pair of heads from one cycle over to another according to the information to be recorded by the recording means.

Abstract: A wide-band video signal recording apparatus is arranged: to frequency modulate a low frequency band portion of a luminance signal; to multiplex a high band portion of the luminance signal with a carrier chrominance signal in such a way as to have their spectra interleaved with each other; and to perform signal recording by further multiplexing the multiplexed signal with the low band of the frequency modulated signal.

Abstract: A video signal processing device comprising a subtractor for computing a difference signal between an input video signal and a video signal input a predetermined period before relative to the input video signal, a computer for applying a predetermined computation to the difference signal, an adder for adding that computation result to the input video signal or the video signal input the predetermined period before and outputting the result, a delay circuit for delaying the output of the adder by the predetermined period, and a dither generator for generating a dither pattern, being characterized in that the dither pattern generated by the dither generator is added to the signal output from the computer or the adder.

Abstract: An image information signal transmitting system of this invention is a system which divides an image information signal for one picture constituted by a set of picture element data into blocks each constituted by a predetermined quantity of picture element data, transmits the picture element data on each of the blocks on the basis of a mode selected from among a plurality of transmission modes each of which allows a different quantity of picture element data to be transmitted and a mode information signal indicative of the transmission mode of each of the blocks, and restores the picture element data on each of the blocks to the original image information signal.

Abstract: A digital signal recording apparatus includes first circuitry for forming digital video data, and second circuitry for forming digital audio data. Third circuitry is provided for forming (a) video synchronizing blocks each of which comprises a predetermined number of digital video data and synchronizing data, and (b) audio synchronizing blocks each of which comprises a predetermined number of digital audio data and synchronizing data. Recording circuitry is provided for recording the video synchronizing blocks and the audio synchronizing blocks in tracks formed on a recording medium, the tracks being generally aligned in the direction of travel in the recording medium. The recording circuitry includes time-division multiplexing circuitry for time-division multiplexing a predetermined number of video synchronizing blocks and a predetermined number of audio synchronizing blocks to produce a data sequence for each of the tracks.

Abstract: An image shake detecting device for detecting a shake of an image on an image sensing plane on the basis of a video signal output from an image sensor includes detection circuits arranged to detect image displacement in a plurality of areas set on the image sensing plane, and a control microcomputer which makes a discrimination, on the basis of information output from these detection circuits, between a movement of a camera and a solo movement of a photographed object. The device thus accurately makes compensation for an image shake by judging the state of the image on the basis of information output from these detection circuits. The image shake detecting device further includes a computing circuit arranged to compute a quantity of an image shake on the basis of a difference in detecting timing of a feature point of the image and a sensitivity control circuit arranged to change the detection sensitivity of the shake detection circuits.

Abstract: A color video signal reproducing apparatus for reproducing a color video signal from a recording medium on which at least luminance and chrominance signals are recorded in the form of a multiplexed signal is arranged to reproduce the multiplexed signal from the recording medium; to separate the luminance and chrominance signals from the reproduced multiplexed signal; and to demodulate and convert the chrominace signal into a plurality of different base-band signals. This arrangement permits a correcting operation to be accomplished on the color information of the reproduced color video signal without deteriorating the color information with simple structural arrangement.

Abstract: A video camera includes in combination an image sensor, an image memory, a special effect circuit arranged to impart a special effect to the output signal of the image sensor by using the image memory, a selection circuit arranged to select either the output of the image sensor or that of the special effect circuit, and a control circuit which, in response to a pause of an image recording action, causes an image obtained when the pause is made to be stored in the image memory when the output of the special effect circuit is selected by the selection circuit.

Abstract: A transmission system, of the type wherein input data to be transmitted is stored in blocks and less than all stored data is extracted from the blocks for transmission and the extracted data is subjected to interpolation to restore all of the data, includes computing circuits for obtaining respective differences between input data and restored data and between input data and stored data and the sums of such differences, and further computing and comparison circuits operating with such differences sums to effect selective transmission of the input data or the extracted data.

Abstract: In an apparatus for recording an information signal on a recording medium forming many parallel tracks on the medium and for reproducing the information signal from the medium, a tracking control system is arranged to record a pilot signal of a given frequency along with the information signal in the first of the many tracks; to have the pilot signal also recorded in second and third tracks adjoining the first track on both sides thereof but at pilot signal phases shifted from the pilot signal phase of the first track to equal degrees in the directions opposite to each other at parts of the second and third tracks aligned perpendicularly to the longitudinal direction of the first track; and, in reproducing the information signal, the position of the recording medium and that of a reproducing head relative to each other are controlled on the basis of the pilot signal of the given frequency reproduced by the reproducing head from the first track along with the information signal.