Abstract: Magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus is constructed in such that a personal computer is electrically connected to the apparatus through connectors, and that a track deviation caused by the apparatus itself is measured through the personal computer by a nondestructive manner upon tape running operation by installing a test magnetic tape formed with recorded tracks having almost no track deviation to the apparatus so as to be helically wound around the rotary drum rotating with magnetic heads in a predetermined angular range and direction.

Abstract: Track deviation of a recorded track on a magnetic tape is measured in a non-destructive manner according to a measuring method and an apparatus employing the same.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image processing apparatus for use with an image projector to allow the image projector to project a magnified image on a screen without a trapezoid distortion or a keystone distortion even when a normal line of the screen is declined to an optical axis of a projector lens of the projector. Digital image data from AD converter are stored in the image memory (6-9) through a selector (3). From the image memory, the image data of four pixels nearby a deformed coordinate position are read out through a selector (4). The image data of the deformed coordinate position is obtained by calculating an average of sum of arithmetic results obtained by giving a weight to each of image data of the four pixels. The weight given corresponds to a positional deviation value from the deformed coordinate position to the respective coordinate positions of the four pixels nearby the deformed coordinate position.

Abstract: An information recording disc has a connecting region formed between a parallel program recorded region containing a plurality of parallel information programs and a single program recorded region containing a single information program which is to be reproduced after one of the parallel information programs is reproduced.

Abstract: An information signal recording disc comprises a first recorded region in which an information signal at least including a video signal is recorded, and a second recorded region in which an end signal is intermittently recorded. The end signal is used to forcibly and automatically return a reproducing element of a disc reproducing apparatus from a playing position to a rest position. The second recorded region is provided at a position prior to the first recorded region in a direction of a reproducing sequence of the recorded signals on the information signal recording disc. The disc reproducing apparatus comprises a detecting circuit for detecting the reproduced end signal, and a controller. The controller controls the detecting circuit so that the detecting circuit is made substantially inoperative in a state where the disc reproducing apparatus is coupled to an external device having a discriminating function.

Abstract: A signal recording system for recording signals on a disc comprises a circuit for generating a modulated signal by subjecting a control program to a self clock modulation based on a reference clock and then to a band limitation to an audio signal band, which control program is transmitted in terms of blocks each having a fixed length, a circuit for generating a block discrimination signal for discriminating a beginning or end of each block, which block discriminating signal has a fundamental frequency which is different from the reference clock frequency of the modulated signal and is within the audio signal band, a circuit for time-division-multiplexing the block discrimination signal to a time period in which the modulated signal is not transmitted, and a circuit for recording the time division multiplexed signal and at least the video signal on the disc.

Abstract: A control program signal demodulating device comprises a control program demodulator for obtaining a demodulated output of a control program signal from a signal which is reproduced from a rotary recording medium which is recorded with at least the control program signal together with a video signal, where the control program signal indicates a control program including input and output commands and internal processing commands of an external device such as a computer which has a discriminating function and is coupled to a player which plays the rotary recording medium, a memory circuit for at least temporarily storing the demodulated output of the control program demodulator and producing the stored demodulated output, a selecting circuit for selectively producing data received from the memory circuit in response to a transmission request, an interface circuit for transmitting the data which is produced from the selecting circuit to the external device, and for receiving one or a plurality of control command

Abstract: A rotation control apparatus for a motor comprises a motor for rotating or moving a recording medium, a circuit for generating first and second reference signals, a circuit for passing a signal which is obtained by comparing phases of the first reference signal and a synchronizing signal through a filter circuit thereof so as to produce a first error signal therefrom, a circuit for producing a second error signal which is obtained by comparing phases of the second reference signal and the rotation detection signal, and a control circuit for controlling first and second switching circuits. The control circuit supplies a specific signal having a level dependent on the level of the second error signal to a capacitor of the filter circuit through the second switching circuit and selectively passes the second error signal through the first switching circuit when the motor rotates at a rotational speed which is not near a steady state rotational speed.

Abstract: Disclosed is a synchronizer for establishing synchronism between horizontal and vertical sync pulses of a non-interlaced video signal and those of an interlaced video signal, the number of non-interlaced scan lines being smaller by 2n-1 than the interlaced scan lines, where n is an integer equal to or greater than unity. Two variable frequency clocks are generated, one having a higher frequency variable as a function of a phase difference between the horizontal sync pulses of the two video signals and the other having one half the higher frequency. A first period is defined which runs from a non-interlaced horizontal sync of first occurrence in a given field to a horizontal sync of (n-1)th occurrence in the given field and a second period is defined that runs from the non-interlaced horizontal sync of first occurrence in a subsequent field to a horizontal sync of n-th occurrence in the subsequent field.

Abstract: A synchronizing signal generating apparatus comprises a first frequency generator for at least generating a frequency which is 4c times a chrominance subcarrier frequency of B, G, H, and I/PAL systems, where c is a factor of (625.times.n) and n is an arbitrary positive integer, a second frequency generator for generating a frequency which is (11.times.n) times a horizontal scanning frequency, a phase control circuit for comparing phases of an output of a first frequency divider which frequency-divides an output signal frequency of the first frequency generator by 1/64489 and an output of a second frequency divider which frequency-divides an output signal frequency of the second frequency generator by 1/(625.times.

Abstract: In a video recording system the chroma components of a color television signal are applied to a multiplexer where they are interleaved in frequency with each other so that the energy concentration of each chroma component occurs at frequencies interleaved with the frequencies at which the energy concentration of the other chroma component occurs. The interleaved chroma components and the luminance component are supplied respectively to frequency modulators each producing an output having energies distributed over the full range of the passband of the system. The outputs of the modulators are fed to first and second transducers for recording the luminance and chroma components on adjacent tracks of a recording medium.

Abstract: A rotary recording medium is repeatedly recorded with a video signal of the same unit for a plurality of field periods in each track turn, and divided audio signal parts obtained by dividing an audio signal in units of field periods of the video signal which is to be reproduced are successively arranged and recorded on a recording track of the video signal according to a tracing locus or a reproducing element on the rotary recording medium upon normal reproduction during which change of track is performed by forcibly shifting the reproducing element at least once or a plurality of times for two revolution periods of the rotary recording medium.

Abstract: An automatic white adjusting circuit for a television camera in which a rough adjustment is first performed with an adjustment quantity of large steps, and fine adjustment is secondly performed with an adjustment quantity of small steps, upon automatic adjustment of the white by performing such operations as directing the television camera towards a white surface. According to the automatic white adjusting circuit of the present invention, the adjusting accuracy of the white balance can be improved, and the white adjustment can be performed automatically within a short period of time.

Abstract: A color picture projection system having a color picture light source and a lens system for magnifying the picture to project the same on a screen is provided with an optical filter for removing the effect of chromatic aberration. The lens system has a simple structure, for instance, two parallel lenses, each designed to pass a given wavelength. In a first embodiment, an annular optical filter partially blocks red and blue light rays incident on one side thereof. In a second embodiment, two coaxial annular optical filters are combined in a single filter to partially block the red light rays incident on a first portion thereof and to partially block red and blue rays incident on a second portion which is outside the first portion.

Abstract: A rotary recording medium reproducing apparatus reproduces a recorded signal from a rotary recording medium by use of a reproducing element. The rotary recording medium is recorded with at least a first carrier signal which is modulated by an information signal having a synchronizing signal of a predetermined frequency.

Abstract: An automatic white adjusting circuit for a television camera in which a rough adjustment is first performed with an adjustment quantity of large steps, and fine adjustment is secondly performed with an adjustment quantity of small steps, upon automatic adjustment of the white by performing such operations as directing the television camera towards a white surface. According to the automatic white adjusting circuit of the present invention, the adjusting accuracy of the white balance can be improved, and the white adjustment can be performed automatically within a short period of time.

Abstract: An automatic white adjusting circuit for a television camera having a color image pick-up tube comprises a first and second variable gain amplifiers for amplifying two predetermined primary color signals of the three primary color signals from an output signal of the image pick-up tube, a matrixing circuit for producing a luminance signal and two color difference signals, by being supplied with either said luminance signal from the output of the image pick-up tube or one remaining primary color signal of the three primary color signals, and outputs of the first and second variable gain amplifiers, an averaging circuit for producing a first and second white detection signals by substantially averaging all or a part of the respective video duration time of the output color difference signals from the matrixing circuit, reference level producing circuit in which a reference level equal to a DC current level of the two predetermined color difference signals of the output signal of the image pick-up tube upon imag

Abstract: A synchronizing signal generator device for television includes an oscillator circuit which generates a color subcarrier signal, a voltage-controlled oscillator circuit which includes a counter and whose oscillation frequency is controlled by the output signal of the first-mentioned oscillator circuit, a counter which receives an output of the voltage-controlled oscillator circuit, and a decoder which receives an output of the second-mentioned counter. The decoder provides a synchronizing signal for the NTSC, PAL or SECAM format in such a manner that the count numbers of the respective counters are controlled. The synchronizing signal generator device for television also includes various circuits for receiving external synchronizing signals. As a result, the synchronizing signal generator device for television can be synchronized with another synchronizing signal generator device for television.

Abstract: An automatic exposure control apparatus for television cameras comprises a gain controlled amplifier receptive of a video signal derived from the target of the camera tube, and a modulating waveform generator which supplies a modulating signal to the control input of the gain controlled amplifier to provide amplitude modulation of the video signal. The modulated video signal is coupled to a smoothing circuit which delivers a d.c. signal corresponding in magnitude to an average value of the input signal applied thereto to an electromechanical transducer which drives an iris diaphragm to adjust the exposure setting. The modulating signal is generated in response to each pulse of either horizontal or vertical synchronization so that the video signal derived from a predetermined area of the target experiences a lower degree of amplification than that derived from the other area.

Abstract: A rotary recording medium reproducing apparatus reproduces a recorded signal from a rotary recording medium by use of a reproducing element. The rotary recording medium is recorded with at least a first carrier signal which is modulated by an information signal having a synchronizing signal of a predetermined frequency.