Abstract: N symbols of a code word inputted from a transmission line and constituting an error detection and/or correction code are divided into i symbol groups, i coefficient groups are generated by dividing n coefficients of a check matrix into i groups, the n coefficients being used for calculation with each code word, and an error of the code word is detected and/or corrected by using a syndrome obtained by adding the calculation results between the i symbol groups and the i coefficient groups, where i is an integer equal to or larger than 2, and n is an integer equal to or larger than i.

Abstract: In a coding apparatus of the invention, codes each consisting of l bits are formed from information data formed by sampling and the m (l and m being integers each equal to at least 2) predictive codes so formed are converted into a code of (m.times.l+a) bits (a being a positive integer), so that an information signal can be compressed at a low data error generation ratio and at a high compression ratio.

Abstract: A recording and/or reproducing apparatus arranged to detect whether a second information is recording or not, by using a first detection signal indicating a result of detection concerning whether no signal is recorded or any signal is recorded, and the second detection signal indicating the result of detection concerning whether the first information signal is recorded or not, in a case where the first or second information is recorded on the recording medium where no signal is recorded thereon, and where it cannot be detected whether the second information signal is recorded or not.

Abstract: There is provided an error correcting device for correcting errors of a received message in accordance with a processing program including a plurality of error correcting processes for correcting different numbers of errors, wherein a plurality of check codes which are used to discriminate the shift to either one of the plurality of error correcting processes for correcting different numbers of errors and which are formed by syndromes formed from the reception code are sequentially serially generated, the plurality of check codes are output in parallel and the shift of the process in the processing program is executed in accordance with the check codes which were output in parallel.

Abstract: A rotary head type recording and reproducing apparatus of the kind recording information codes on a tape-shaped recording medium by forming many parallel recording tracks and at the same time an additional code consisting of one byte at a predetermined position in each of the recording tracks and reproducing, by means of rotary heads, the signals from the medium, the apparatus is arranged to perform the reproduction as follows; A tracking error signal is formed by using signals reproduced from the rotary head. The tracking error signal is sampled at such a timing that enables the rotary head to reproduce the additional code. The position of the recording medium relative to the rotary head is controlled on the basis of the tracking error signal thus obtained.

Abstract: In an information signal recording apparatus having an m (m.gtoreq.2) number of heads arranged to record, in many parallel tracks on a recording medium, information signals of the m number of channels by simultaneously tracing the surface of the medium while simultaneously forming thereby the m number of tracks, pilot signals of an n number of kinds are recorded in rotation along with the information signals of the m number of channels in such a way as to recur in a cycle of an (n.times.m) number of tracks.

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 apparatus for recording and reproducing information signals on and from a recording medium is arranged to cancel out an instruction for recording an information signal if some information signal has already been recorded on the medium.

Abstract: A decoding method for digital data having a two-dimensional arrangement including error correction check codes in both for first and second directions, wherein, an error correcting method having a value in which the result of the arithmetic operation for error correction was added to syndromes in at least one of the first and second directions is obtained and error correction is again executed on the basis of this value. In addition, an error correcting apparatus having a plurality of syndrome calculating units are provided so that a plurality of syndromes can be simultaneously calculated.

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 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 audio signal recording apparatus comprises a detector for detecting a silent part of an incoming audio signal within the audio signal corresponding to less than a threshold value and generating a detection signal, a circuit for generating a reference signal of a predetermined frequency, a modulator for modulating the incoming audio signal to produce a modulated audio signal, a circuit for superimposing the reference signal on the modulated audio signal in response to the detection signal to produce a recording signal, and a recording circuit for recording the recording signal on a record bearing medium.

Abstract: A rotary type recording and/or reproducing apparatus is provided with a rotary head which is arranged to record and/or reproduce information signals individually on or from a plurality of parallel areas longitudinally extending on a tape-shaped recorded bearing medium by obliquely transversely tracing the plurality of areas; a first detection circuit which is arranged to at least partially detect signals produced from the rotary head; a second detection circuit which is arranged to detect the rotation phase of the rotary head; and an arrangement for outputting a plurality of binary signals which respectively indicate whether the information signals are recorded or not in at least two of the plurality of areas according to the outputs of the first and second detection circuits.

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.

Abstract: An apparatus for recording an information signal with rotary heads in each of a plurality of areas extending in the longitudinal direction of a tape-shaped recording medium is arranged to reproduce with the rotary heads a signal already recorded in a first area among the plurality of areas; and to record the information signal in the second of the areas while performing tracking control over the rotary heads by using the reproduced signal obtained from the first area.

Abstract: An information signal transmission system for transmitting a code sequence in which mutually adjoining codes are correlated with each other. The information signal transmission system is arranged to compute a predictive code for each code sequence by using "n" number (n.gtoreq.2) of codes included in the same code sequence; to compute a difference code relative to a difference between the predictive code and the code corresponding to the predictive code. The system to thus obtains a group of difference codes corresponding to "m" number (m.gtoreq.n) of consecutive codes included in the code sequence and transmits codes by adding the predictive code corresponding to one of the "m" number of the consecutive code to the difference code group.

Abstract: An information data transmission system deals with a plurality of kinds of information data different in quantity from one another and respectively corresponding to prescribed amounts of an information signal. The system has first encoding circuitry for encoding the plurality of kinds of information data and second encoding circuitry for predictively encoding the plurality of kinds of information data. The timing of the production of outputs from the first and second encoding circuits is such that, for all kinds of the plurality of information data, the quantity of information data encoded by the first encoding circuitry is equalized.

Abstract: A digital information signal recording apparatus has a first mode in which a digital information signal of one channel is recorded on a recording medium at a given bit rate and a second mode in which digital information signals of n channels (n: an integer which is at least 2) are simultaneously recorded on the recording medium at a bit rate which is 1/n of the given bit rate.

Abstract: In an information recording and/or reproducing apparatus for recording and/or reproducing a main information signal in or from each of a plurality of areas extending in the longitudinal direction of a tape-shaped recording medium, an additinal information signal which releates to all the signals recorded in the plurality of areas is recorded, separately from the plurality of areas, in a recording track formed on the medium in the longitudinal direction thereof.

Abstract: An information signal recording and/or reproducing apparatus for recording and/or reproducing signals with transducing means in or from a given area on a recording medium is arranged to detect by using the transducing means the presence of an existing record of either a first information signal which includes a video signal or a second information signal which includes an audio signal in the given area and to be capable of finding any record of the first information signal by detecting the record of the second information signal.