Abstract: An apparatus for processing data comprises memory access circuitry to enforce ownership rights of a plurality of memory regions within a first memory. The memory access circuitry is responsive to a first export command received from a first export command source to perform a first export operation to encrypt the given owned data to form given encrypted data and to store the given encrypted data in a second memory. The memory access circuitry is responsive to a second export command for the given memory region received from a second export command source while the first export operation is being performed to determine whether said second export command source has higher priority than the first export command source and, when the second export command source has a higher priority, to interrupt the first export operation and to perform a second export operation specified by the second export command.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for multiplexing a dynamic bit-rate video stream with an audio stream received by a client device in a manner that allows the resulting multiplexed stream to be played back without disruption, despite dynamic changes in the bit rate of the video stream that may occur. A content server may stream both a video stream and an audio stream to a client device for playback. The client device may multiplex the video and audio streams prior to them being presented to a playback engine for decoding and playback to a user.

Abstract: A system, method, and apparatus are provided for facilitating reverse reading of sequentially stored variable-length data records. Each record is stored with accompanying size metadata that identifies the size or length of the record. Further, if the length of a given record is greater than a threshold (e.g., 127 bytes when the length is stored with variable-length quantity encoding), such that more than one byte (or other storage unit) is needed to store the record length, an additional byte (or other unit) is configured to store the size/length of the record length (e.g., the number of bytes required to store the record length). The most significant bit of the additional byte is set to 1, so that during reverse reading, the location and size of the record length value can be quickly determined.

Abstract: A semiconductor device having a semiconductor body comprising an active area and a termination structure surrounding the active area, and a method for the manufacture thereof. The invention particularly concerns a termination structure for such devices having trenched electrodes in the active area. The termination structure comprises a plurality of lateral trench-gate transistor devices connected in series and extending from the active area towards a peripheral edge of the semiconductor body. The lateral devices are arranged such that a voltage difference between the active area and the peripheral edge is distributed across the lateral devices. The termination structure is compact and features of the structure are susceptible for formation in the same process steps as features of the active area.

Abstract: An egress lighting system which utilizes an efficient primary and emergency light source and complies with the NEC standards for emergency egress lighting. This invention combines two sets of LEDs onto a single circuit board to provide primary lighting and secondary emergency egress lighting while keeping the circuits of the primary and secondary lighting electrically separate or isolated.

Abstract: An information recording apparatus (SS1) is provided with: a quantize device (72, 72B) for quantizing record information by 8×n bits; a divide device (72, 72D) for dividing the quantized record information quantized at one quantization timing, into (i) high order bit quantized record information (66), which is a portion at high order 8×m bits of the quantized record information including a predetermined portion of the record information, which must be reproduced at a time of reproducing the record information, and (ii) low order bit quantized record information (67), which is another portion of the quantized record information; a multiplexed record information generation device (72, 72E) for constituting (i) a high order bit quantized record information block (UB) including a plurality of high order bit quantized record informations corresponding to consecutive quantization timings and (ii) a low order bit quantized record information block (DB) including a plurality of low order bit quantized rec

Abstract: An information recording apparatus (SS1) is provided with: a quantize device (72, 72B) for quantizing record information by 8.times.n bits; a divide device (72, 72D) for dividing the quantized record information quantized at one quantization timing, into (i) high order bit quantized record information (66), which is a portion at high order 8.times.

Abstract: A digital signal recording apparatus is arranged to be capable of permitting long-time recording on one and the same recording medium without impairing the quality of audio signals at all. The apparatus has a first mode in which a digital video signal supplied from a video input circuit and having the amount of information not compressed by a video compression circuit is recorded on the recording medium by a recording circuit while all of n channel digital audio signals supplied from an audio input circuit are recorded by the recording circuit; and a second mode in which the digital video signal having the amount of information compressed by the video compression circuit and only part of the n channel digital audio signals supplied from the audio input circuit are recorded by the recording circuit.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for recording and reading magnetic tape that contains audio signals and data that is related to the audio signals. In the preferred embodiment, the audio signals are music, and the related data are lyrics to the music displayed in real time to the music as it is being played. The lyrics are modulated onto an ultrasonic carrier signal and mixed with the audio signal on one track of the tape. The tape may be played on a conventional tape recorder without having interference from the recorded data at ultrasonic frequencies. In a suitably equipped tape player, the mixed signal is read and filtered to generate a high pass filtered signal and a bandpass filtered signal. The bandpass filtered signal filters out frequencies outside the range of human hearing to generate an audio signal. The high pass filtered signal is demodulated by the carrier frequency to reconstruct the lyrics.

Abstract: A multiplexed data stream is formed by encoding a first input signal at a variable bit rate to form a first encoded data signal which is temporarily stored in a first storage device, encoding a second input signal at a constant bit rate to form a second encoded data signal which is temporarily stored in a second storage device, and using a multiplexing circuit to multiplex the first and second encoded data signals respectively stored in the first and second storage devices to form the desired multiplexed data stream. Transfer of the first encoded data signal from the first storage device to the multiplexing circuit is controlled on the basis of a quantity of the first encoded data signal that is present in the first storage device. When none of the first encoded data signal is present in the first storage device, transfer of the first encoded data signal to the multiplexing circuit is temporarily halted.

Abstract: In a digital signal recording and reproducing apparatus, a signal obtained by multiplexing an audio signal on a bit rate reduction encoded video signal is delivered as a transmission signal. The transmission signal is multiplexed with a data showing its content, such as a copy number of times data and an edit number of times data. Depending on the state of reproduction at a reproducing side apparatus, which is a source side of transmission, a control data for controlling a recording side apparatus, which is a destination of transmission is also multiplexed.

Abstract: A video tape recorder includes a cylinder provided to rotate about its axis. A magnetic tape moves along a portion of the cylinder surface such that the cylinder surface obliquely traverses the magnetic tape. At least one pair of magnetic heads are mounted on the cylinder surface for recording and reproducing video signal on the tape, and another pair of magnetic heads are mounted on the cylinder for recording and reproducing audio signal on the tape.

Abstract: There is provided an audio signal magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus in which a frequency modulated luminance signal and a frequency modulated audio signal are sequentially recorded and reproduced onto/from the same magnetic tape as recording loci each having predetermined angle of inclination for the tape running direction by a plurality of rotary heads having different azimuth angles, wherein the apparatus increases a recording level of the frequency modulated audio signal for the vertical sync signal period of the luminance signal.

Abstract: Apparatus is provided for recording and reproducing video and audio signals on a record medium, wherein the audio signal may be of at least two different types subjected to respectively different types of audio processing. A recording section produces frequency modulated audio signal components and selectively adjusts the level of at least one FM audio signal component during the video blanking intervals as a function of the type of audio signal being modulated. Then, the FM audio signal components and the video signal are combined and recorded. A reproducing section separates the reproduced FM audio signal components from the reproduced video signal and detects the level of at least one separated FM audio signal component during blanking intervals. The FM audio signal components are demodulated and processed pursuant to a selected type of audio processing dependent upon the detected level of the FM audio signal component.

Abstract: A magnetic recording correction circuit for a video tape recorder comprises a first multiplier supplied with a first signal to output a signal having a frequency which is twice as high as that of the first signal; a second multiplier supplied with a second signal and a first multiplier output signal outputted from the first multiplier to output a correction signal having a component of a sum frequency of the second signal and the first multiplier output signal and a component of a difference frequency therebetween; an adding circuit for adding the first and second signals and the correction signal; and a phase shifter provided on the output side of the second multiplier to exert a phase characteristic on the correction signal with respect to the first and second signals.

Abstract: A digital signal processing automotive audio system uses an analog audio source providing stereo output signals. One of the stereo signals is mixed to a distinct frequency band and summed with the other stereo signal to form a composite signal which can be digitized in a single analog-to-digital converter. Separate digital stereo signals are recovered using digital signal processing.

Abstract: Information bearing signals are recorded in one of a plurality of record formats on one record medium, such as a magnetic tape, magnetic disk, optical disk, and the like. The format selected may be commanded or based upon record lengths, in bytes. When the record length equals or exceeds a predetermined number of bytes, then one record is recorded in each signal block of the record format. When the record length is less than the predetermined number, then a second format is used which inserts several of the records in one of the signal blocks. The signal block and its packets respectively contain indications of formats such that any one of several formats may be used on one record medium and in one signal block having a plurality of variable length packets. Logical indicators, such as format marks, tape marks, and the like, may separate formats used on the storage medium.

Abstract: A video tape recording and reproducing device and a related method having a recording and a reproducing mode including a plurality of tuners for concomitantly receiving a plurality of television programs and generating a plurality of respective recording signals when in the recording mode, mixing means for producing a mixed recording signal responsive to the plurality of generated recording signals, recording means for recording the mixed recording signal on a video tape, reading means for reading the mixed recording signal from the video tape when in the reproducing mode, separating means for reproducing a selected recording signal from the mixed recording signal, and means for outputting the reproduced selected recording signal to an external device for producing the corresponding television program.

Abstract: An information signal recording apparatus of this invention records on a recording medium a signal which includes a first information signal and a second information signal which differs from the first information signal. It multiplexes the second information signal with a signal which is the first information signal during a first period and which is a constant frequency signal during a second period which differs from the first time period on a frequency basis, and records a resultant information signal on the recording medium. In consequence, the information signal can be recorded on the recording medium in such a way that the time base variations generated in the information signal reproduced from the recording medium can be readily corrected without using a special signal.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing a frequency-multiplex signal on the basis of a plurality of signals so as to record the produced frequency-multiplex signal on a recording medium, second signal having a frequency lower than that of the first signal. The apparatus includes a multiplying circuit for multiplying the frequency of the second signal by 2 and an amplitude-modulator for multiplying the first signal by the output signal of the multiplying circuit. Also included in the apparatus is an adder for adding the second signal to the output signal of the amplitude-modulator, the output signal of the adder being recorded as the frequency-multiplexing signal on the recording medium.

Abstract: A music delivery arrangement permitting a subscriber to select from among a plurality of available music selections, particular selections that he wishes to hear at any time. The plurality of music selections are "played" at a central "jukebox" facility. They are frequency multiplexed onto one or more communication channels that are typically used to carry video information, such as cable television channel. The video channel information is distributed to individual subscribers either via unused channels of a cable television system, by direct broadcast at commercial television frequencies, by direct satellite transmission to a subscriber, or by some other means. The subscriber uses a converter box to demultiplex and thereby select a desired musical selection for demodulation. Demodulation can take place in the subscriber's FM broadcast receiver or in some other apparatus.

Abstract: A video disk recording method and the recorded disk in which a video signal is frequency-multiplexed with a digital data signal into respective frames which are asynchronous to each other. A time code is recorded in both types of frames. The time is incremented periodically but the period in one of the types of frames is occasionally varied to compensate for the asynchronism.

Abstract: In a recording apparatus frequency modulators (25-28) are provided for carriers having different frequencies with an information signal. The different frequency carriers are sequentially combined by a switch (12) and applied to a recording head in response to the head being shifted from one track to the next to record each of the carriers on a different track, so that there is a difference in frequency between carriers recorded on adjacent tracks. During playback, the frequency-modulated carriers are sequentially reproduced and separated by band-pass filters (25-24) into individual carriers, frequency-demodulated respectively by demodulators (29-32) and sequentially combined by a switch (33) to form the original information signal. Tracking control circuit (100) is provided to control the lateral position of the transducer head in response to the carriers which are derived from tracks on opposite sides of the track being scanned.

Abstract: A method for superimposed recording of a first signal and a second signal with frequency which is less than the frequency for the first signal, in a perpendicular magnetic recording medium by means of a ring-shaped magnetic head. The mutually superimposed first and second signals are supplied to the magnetic head. The value of the first signal current to be supplied to the magnetic head is set at a value which is greater than the current value for which the reproduced output level of the first signal that was recorded on the magnetic recording medium attains a maximum, and a satisfactory superimposed recording characteristic can be obtained by such an arrangement.

Abstract: In a cue recording system for a tape recorder, an audio signal is recorded by a first recording section on a first track of a tape. In a second recording section, a cue signal is superposed on the audio signal. The composite signal formed of the audio and cue signals is then recorded on the second track of the tape. In the playback mode, the audio signal and the cue signal recorded on the second track are separated by a filter. When the separated second-track audio signal is mixed with a first-track reproduced output, the resultant audio signal has substantially the same low-frequency response characteristic as a stereo head system, and a same S/N ratio as the monaural head system. An insufficient low-frequency response of the second track is compensated by the flat frequency response of the first track. Degradation of the S/N ratio of the signal of the first track can be improved by the mid or higher frequency component of the audio signal of the second track.

Abstract: A perpendicular magnetic recording method for recording two kinds of signals on a magnetic recording medium which has perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, recording the first kind of signal on the recording medium with a linear recording density higher than 30 kBPI, and then recording the second kind of signal on that recording track on which the first kind of signal has been recorded, with a linear recording density which is 15 or more kBPI lower than that of the previously-recorded signal, whereby two kinds of signals can be recorded on the same recording medium in such a way that they are superimposed on one another. These two kinds of signals are detected at the same time by one magnetic head and frequency-separated by a reproduced signals processing circuit which is provided with high and low pass filters.

Abstract: Information recording apparatus includes a first recording mechanism for recording information at a certain location on a recording medium such as a tape, and a reproducing mechanism for reproducing the information recorded on the tape. A source of information different from the information recorded on the tape is coupled to mixing circuitry which mixed the information reproduced from the tape by the reproducing mechanism, and the newly generated information, and the combined information is re-recorded by a second recording mechanism at the certain location on the tape.

Abstract: High resolution video signals of bandwidth up to 25 mHz are recorded magnetically or optically, or are transmitted on a communications channel carrier with superior fidelity by using novel electronic circuit system including implementations of an FM modulator, writing amplifier, and wideband discriminator which enable coding and decoding with high accuracy, low noise, and low interference. The video signals are used to directly modulate a square wave carrier using an FM technique employing a very low center frequency-to-bandwidth ratio without need for subsequent frequency translations. A writing amplifier provides gain needed for saturated recording with unique provisions to balance transition amplitudes for minimum second harmonic distortion without affecting the primary phasing of transitions. A novel multiwinding inductor and pulse discriminator implementation is capable of demodulating the very wide deviation FM signal with good cancellation of the second harmonic and fundamental FM carrier spectrums.

Abstract: A portable video tape recorder for broadcasting applications comprises a pair of video heads mounted diametrically opposite to each other on the circumference of a rotary cylinder. High and low frequency carriers are modulated by frequency modulators with I and Q signals, respectively, and frequency division multiplexed for application to the video heads. The frequency values of the carriers are selected so that third-order distortion noise caused by the hysteresis characteristics of the video heads and the magnetic tape may fall within a frequency range differing from the frequencies of the modulated carriers by an amount greater than the bandwidth of the I and Q signals which are demodulated by frequency demodulators to prevent the occurrence of beat interference in the frequency band of the reproduced video signal.

Abstract: First and second contact members insulated from and bonded to the respective upper and lower surfaces of a magnetic head which is mounted on an operating member driven from a pulse motor are adapted to get out of the edge of a magnetic tape when the magnetic head is brought to positions corresponding to the uppermost and lowermost tracks respectively. When these contact members get out of the edge of the magnetic tape, they come to contact with a stationary contact member which is provided on the side of the magnetic tape opposite the contact members.

Abstract: A recorder apparatus comprises a modulator, arranged to be fed with a carrier signal of a frequency at the low end of the audio spectrum (e.g. 80 Hz), for pulse modulating said signal with serialized data corresponding to a time code. A voltage controlled amplifier is connected to the output from the modulator and controlled by an amplitude detector in a separate audio component channel. A mixer is arranged to mix the output from the voltage controlled amplifier and the second audio component channel for feeding to a record head. A play back apparatus which may be integral with the recorder apparatus comprises a low pass filter and a high pass filter arranged to be fed with signals from a read head. A decoder is connected to receive signals from the low pass filter via demodulator to provide time-code signals for a utilization device. The high pass filter is connected to a normal audio channel.

Abstract: An improved cue signal detector is provided for detecting on a magnetic tape which moves at greatly varying speeds a cue signal having a fixed wavelength longer than the wavelengths of other recorded information signals. The cue signal detector comprises a pick-up magnetic head for sensing a recorded cue signal, an integrator connected so that the signal output of the pick-up head is integrated with respect to time, and an amplitude level sensor for monitoring the integrator output with respect to a reference amplitude and generating a cue output signal indicative of the detection of the cue signal on the tape when the amplitude of the integrator output exceeds a predetermined level. The output of the level sensor is processed by a filter circuit to determine whether the cue signal is valid or was generated by noise.

Abstract: Disclosed is a crosstalk attenuator system for reducing the crosstalk which occurs at the time of separating and reproducing the original signals from the video disc recording medium on which a video signal and a voice signal have been recorded as a compound signal on the same track. In the system, a first multiplier receives both the signals separated from the medium to analyze the relative relation between the signals and thus to generate an output signal according to the amount of the crosstalk between the signals; a second multiplier receives the output signal and one of the signals to generate a feedback signal equivalent to the other crosstalk signal component mixed in one signal, and the feedback signal is subtracted from the other signal component thereby to reduce the crosstalk.

Abstract: In a video disc player intermodulation distortion can occur during signal recovery and is manifested as the modulated sound carrier appearing in the baseband video. To reduce such distortion, a portion of the signal recovered from the disc record is filtered to extract the modulated sound carrier. This signal is applied to a phase shifting circuit having a predetermined frequency response to condition the modulated sound carrier to have a phase characteristic substantially similar to the phase response of the modulated sound carrier appearing as distortion in the baseband video. The phase conditioned sound carrier is then amplitude adjusted and linearly subtracted from the baseband video signal.

Abstract: A multitrack recorder is disclosed in which each of a plurality of parallel data signals is mixed with an additional signal corresponding to a digital code indicative of the real time at which the data is received. Each of the mixed signals is then conventionally recorded on a separate track of a suitable record medium. The recorder includes a circuit which shifts the phase of the recorded data signals with respect to each other, while keeping the phase of all recorded time signals in phase with each other. Upon playback, the signals from all tracks are added together. The out-of-phase data signals from each track tend to negate each other and the in-phase time related signals reinforce each other, thus becoming readily detectable. Preferably, the digital time related signals are encoded as two frequencies, both of which are below the band width of the data signals, such that frequency filters may also be employed to enhance the recovery of the time code.

Abstract: A digital linear interface system to interface between the output of a tape deck and a separate data input for each of n channels of data input. Each channel of the digital linear interface system consists of a high Q bandpass filter, a rectifier, a peak detector, and a phase locked loop demodulator. A light emitting diode connected between the rectifier and the phase locked loop demodulator lights when the bandpass filter is tuned to the center frequency. The system separates n linear sine waves having data stored on a separate sine wave for each channel.