Abstract: System and methods for providing dynamic positional audio are disclosed. Methods can comprise determining availability of one or more devices to output audio and determining a location of the one or more available devices. Audio information can be received and at least a portion of the audio information can be configured to generate assigned audio information based on the determined location of the available devices. The assigned audio information can be transmitted to the available devices.

Abstract: According one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a disk including a first region and a second region to which data before written to the first region is temporarily written, a head which writes data to the disk and reads data from the disk, and a controller which selectively performs conventional magnetic recording for writing a track at an interval in a radial direction of the disk and shingled magnetic recording for writing a track so as to overlap in the radial direction, and changes a cache data capacity of data which can be written to the second region in accordance with a first write capacity of data which can be written to the first region by the shingled magnetic recording.

Abstract: Signal compression for serialized data bandwidth reduction based on decomposition of a data signal into separate signal components with different SQNR or dynamic range requirements, and quantizing the signal components with different bit precisions. Compression logic decomposes the input data signal into the first/second signal components, quantizes the first component with a pre-defined first bit precision to provide a first quantized data signal, quantizes the second component with a pre-defined second bit precision to provide a second quantized data signal, the second bit precision less than the first bit precision, the first and second quantized data signals bit packed into a compressed digital data signal.

Abstract: An apparatus for reading data from a magnetic storage medium includes a plurality of magnetic read heads each configured to read a track of the magnetic storage medium and generate an analog data signal corresponding to the read track. The apparatus includes a converter to generate digital data samples from the analog data signals, and a plurality of equalizers to apply a plurality of coefficients to the digital data samples to generate a plurality of equalized signals. The plurality of coefficients are associated with different locations within the track. The apparatus includes a plurality of detectors to compute metrics and detect data bits for the plurality of equalized signals, and at least one selector to select one of the plurality of equalized signals that has a best metric from the computed metrics and to output the selected equalized signal.

Abstract: A memory system in accordance with an embodiment of the inventive concept includes a memory controller comprising a controller optical transmission unit photoelectrically-converting a data signal to output a first optical modulation signal and a second optical modulation signal, a first memory device which is optically connected with the memory controller to receive the first optical modulation signal, and a second memory device which is optically connected with the memory controller to receive the second optical modulation signal. The first optical modulation signal and the second optical modulation signal are complementary to each other.

Abstract: A storage media comprising a first storage subset with a first value of a storage media characteristic and a second storage subset with a second value of the storage media characteristic, the first value of a storage media characteristic being substantially different than the second value of the storage media characteristic and a storage controller configured to allocate a plurality of logical block addresses (LBAs) between the first storage subset and the second storage subset based on a predetermined criterion in view of the first value of the storage media characteristic and the second value of the storage media characteristic.

Abstract: An integrated circuit device includes first and second integrated circuits and a power supply line. The first integrated circuit includes a first power supply circuit, a timing generation circuit generating a synchronization signal, and a first power supply control section. The second integrated circuit includes a second power supply circuit and a second power supply control section. The power supply line electrically connects the outputs of the first and second power supply circuit. The first and second power supply control sections are each configured to start the operations of the first and second power supply circuits, respectively, in response to a start of a supply of the synchronization signal after a sleep-out command is supplied thereto. The timing generation circuit starts supplying the synchronization signal after a predetermined waiting time elapses after the sleep-out command is supplied to the first integrated circuit.

Abstract: System and methods for providing dynamic positional audio are disclosed. Methods can comprise determining availability of one or more devices to output audio and determining a location of the one or more available devices. Audio information can be received and at least a portion of the audio information can be configured to generate assigned audio information based on the determined location of the available devices. The assigned audio information can be transmitted to the available devices.

Abstract: Systems and method relating generally to data processing, and more particularly to systems and methods for utilizing multiple data streams for data recovery from a storage device.

Abstract: A method and system for managing multiple user locks and deletion requests on a digital video recorder (DVR) is disclosed. Files associated with the DVR can be protected from deletion by allowing users to lock a recorded file utilizing a number of locking strategies. The recorded file can also be locked by multiple users and the recording can be deleted when the users specifically remove the lock. A simpler interface for each user can be provided to prevent other users from deleting recorded files, which have not yet been viewed. Such an approach allows for an administrative override to prevent users from locking recordings and never unlocking in order to prevent the DVR exhausting disk space.

Abstract: A video signal transfer system including an imaging apparatus for capturing an object to be imaged and generating a consecutive plurality of picture data forming a moving image, selecting from the plurality of picture data picture data positioned in advance at predetermined intervals to generate a plurality of lines (series) of video signals, and transmitting the plurality of systems of video signal, and a signal processing apparatus having a plurality of signal processing circuits, outputting the plurality of lines of video signals received from the imaging apparatus to the plurality of signal processing circuits, and making them process the signals in parallel.

Abstract: An information recording apparatus includes a recording medium receiver to receive a recording medium whereon information may be recorded by the apparatus and a non-volatile memory to store management information about the recording medium provided in the recording medium receiver. The management information provides information about whether or not data can be recorded on the recording medium.

Abstract: A video signal transfer system including an imaging apparatus for capturing an object to be imaged and generating a consecutive plurality of picture data forming a moving image, selecting from the plurality of picture data picture data positioned in advance at predetermined intervals to generate a plurality of lines (series) of video signals, and transmitting the plurality of systems of video signal, and a signal processing apparatus having a plurality of signal processing circuits, outputting the plurality of lines of video signals received from the imaging apparatus to the plurality of signal processing circuits, and making them process the signals in parallel.

Abstract: An information recording apparatus has a plurality of fine particles forming an array on a plane in close proximity of each other, each of the plural particles including a ferromagnetic metal, a light-emitting device for exciting a near-field light, and a photo-electric conversion element for detecting a near-field light traveled along the fine particles. Summary information may be recorded for plural information recording parts.

Abstract: Various embodiments for writing data in a tape medium having wraps by a tape drive are provided. The tape drive allocates the wraps in a shingled data band between two or more data partitions. A set of contiguous wraps is allocated to one data partition of the two or more data partitions. An additional set of contiguous wraps is allocated to an additional data partition of the two or more data partitions. A minimum buffer is retained between the set and the additional set of contiguous wraps of at least one wrap per direction written within at least one data band shared between the one and the additional data partitions such that the one and the additional data partitions may be written to by the tape drive independently of each other.

Abstract: A signal processing apparatus which is capable of reducing the occurrence of noise at editing points without the need to decode an encoded audio signal when editing the encoded audio signal. A recording/reproduction section reproduces an audio signal sequence including an audio signal encoded according to normalization information for controlling amplitude of the audio signal, and the normalization information. A normalization information converter changes the normalization information of the reproduced audio signal sequence.

Abstract: Essentially all of the processing parameters which control processing of a source audio signal to produce an encoded audio signal are stored in an audio processing profile. Multiple audio processing profiles are stored in a processing profile database such that specific combinations of processing parameters can be retrieved and used at a later time. Audio processing profiles are organized according to specific delivery bandwidths such that a sound engineer can quickly and efficiently encode audio signals for each of a number of distinct delivery media. Synchronized A/B switching during playback of various encoded audio signals allows the sound engineer to detect nuances in the sound characteristics of the various encoded audio signals.

Abstract: An information recording apparatus for recording content information on an information recording medium includes a main information recording area on which main information to be reproduced is recorded, and a plurality of content information recording areas on which content information to be reproduced to indicate contents of the main information is recorded. The apparatus includes a recording device, a confirming device and a control device. The recording device records the content information on a part of the plurality of content information recording areas. The confirming device confirms a recording result of the content information thus recorded. The control device controls the recording device, only when the recording result is confirmed to be successful, so that content information that is identical with the content information recorded on the part of the content information recording areas can be recorded on the other part of the content information recording areas.

Abstract: A method of frame synchronization for serial data transmission is presented herein. A transmitting circuit in a data communication apparatus converts frame data into serial data and transmits the same, and following the serial data, the transmitting circuit transmits frame synchronization data varying several times in the interval from an edge of a clock signal to an edge of the next clock signal; a receiving circuit receives the frame data and detects two or more variations in the same interval to find the end of the frame data, by receiving the serial data from a signal line, serial data is transmitted while carrying out frame synchronization.

Abstract: A method of frame synchronization serial data transmission. A transmitting circuit in a data communication apparatus converts frame data into serial data and transmit the same, and following the serial data, the transmitting circuit transmits frame synchronization data varying several times in the interval from an edge of a clock signal to an edge of the next clock signal; a receiving circuit receives the frame data and detects twice or more variations in the same interval to find out the end of the frame data, by receiving the serial data from a signal lines, serial data is transmitted while carrying out frame synchronization.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a digital video-audio signal recording and reproducing apparatus that allows the number of channels of audio data and the data width per sample to be changed corresponding to user's settings. 24-bit/sample audio data that is input as serial data to Ch 1 of the digital video-audio signal recording and reproducing apparatus is separated into high order 16 bits and low order eight bits. The high order 16 bits are recorded in a region of Ch 1 of a record medium. The low order eight bits are stored to a region of low order eight bits of Ch 3 paired with Ch 1 of the record medium. Mode information that represents that 24-bit data is separated into paired channels is added to record data each edit unit of video data. When dat is reproduced, data of paired channels is combined corresponding to the mode information so as to restore 24-bit data. Since the 24-bit data is treated as 16-bit data, the record format of 16-bit data can be used for the 24-bit data.

Abstract: A recording/reproducing apparatus or a reproducing apparatus has a first, a second and a third magnetic heads. The first and second magnetic heads have different gap azimuth angles and are spaced 180 degrees apart from each other on a rotary head. The third magnetic head has the same gap azimuth angle as that of the second magnetic head and a specific relative positional relationship with the first magnetic head on the rotary head. Recording of each frame signal of a video signal is controlled as follows: The frame signal is divided into N (N being a integer of two or more) slant tracks on a magnetic tape at a standard tape speed in a standard mode; the frame signal is divided into N/2 slant tracks at a tape speed ½ of the standard speed in ½ speed mode; or the frame signal is divided into N/2 slant tracks at a tape speed ⅓ of the standard speed in ⅓ speed mode.

Abstract: A method and system suitable for recording/reproducing audio-visual data on or from a hard disk or other storage media that can be accessed in random. Two streams, stream #1 and stream #2, are set. Then, 2000 sectors are set to the stream #1 and a specified number of sectors to the stream #2. By specifying this stream number (stream #1 or #2) and the audio-visual (AV) logical block address of the stream, the AV stream data recorded on the hard disk can be accessed. Each AV stream begins with zero and ends at the maximum AV stream LBA.

Abstract: A disk drive and a disk drive control method is described which reduces the number of one track seeks a drive performs. The one track seeks can operate the actuator bearing in a non-linear mode or can increase in the friction of the actuator bearing which leads to servo positioning inaccuracies. In the disk drive the logical block address (LBA) assignments are made so that when sequential addresses are allocated to two different tracks, the tracks are physically non-adjacent. Thus, when a sequential LBAs are read across a track boundary, the actuator is moved farther than would be required if the LBAs were assigned the adjacent tracks.

Abstract: The present invention enables to preferably correct mark patterns reproduced in parallel from a magnetic tape. A mark detection block 204 successively identifies as one of the plurality mark patterns a plurality of binary data reproduced in parallel from the magnetic tape, and confirms a mark pattern whose reproduction time has reached a reference time. A mark holding block 211 holds a mark pattern whose reproduction is integrated. A mark pattern discontinuity detection block 121 detects a discontinuity and the discontinuity integrating block 213 counts the number of discontinuity times. This discontinuous number of times and the mark pattern held are output together with the confirmed mark pattern, thus correcting the mark pattern appropriately.

Abstract: A recording and reproducing device comprises a plurality of hard disks H1 through Hp, an error checker 12 for detecting write errors produced in the respective hard disks H1 through Hp, a memory 13 for storing therein a logical address for the hard disk H3 from which the write error is detected, and a computing unit 14 for recovering data to be recorded on the write error-detected hard disk H3, based on data recorded on other hard disks H1, H2 and Hp from which no write errors are detected. When the logical address for the write error-detected hard disk H3 is designated, the post-recovery record data is outputted. According to this, since the write error of each hard disk, which has occurred upon writing, can be automatically corrected, the present device can be continuously activated without missing continuity for a request for recording and reproduction of video/audio data.

Abstract: During recording, a multilingual indication is generated when at least two of the audio channels of a digital audio signal are associated with a common program, and the multilingual indication is combined with the digital audio signal. During reproduction, a display is activated when a multilingual indication indicates that at least two of the audio channels included in a digital audio signal are associated with a common program.

Abstract: A recording medium to which this invention is applied includes a first recording area 3 where a digital audio signal sampled at a predetermined sampling frequency and quantized by a predetermined number of bits is recorded, a first management area 2 where information for carrying out management of the digital audio signal recorded in the first recording area 3 is recorded, a second recording area 6 where a digital audio signal corresponding to the digital audio signal recorded in the first recording area 3 is recorded, and a second management area 5 where information for carrying out management of the digital audio signal recorded in the second recording area 6 is recorded, wherein discrimination data indicating that plural recording areas exist is recorded in the first management area 2.Thus, this recording medium has compatibility with the conventional CD player, and can be reproduced in the state of high sound quality by a higher rank reproducing equipment.

Abstract: A digital signal recording and reproducing method and apparatus that record and reproduce sequentially a normal reproducing digital signal and a multiple kind special reproducing digital signal on and from a tape-like recording medium. The data rate of the normal reproducing digital signal is detected. According to the detected data rate, either of the normal reproducing digital signal or special reproducing digital signal is selected. The selected digital signal is recorded at the predetermined location on a recording medium for recording the special reproducing digital signal. The sequentially recorded digital signal is reproduced, and each reproduced signal is detected either the normal reproducing digital signal or the multiple kind special reproducing digital signal. The digital signal detected as either of the digital signals is outputted separately.

Abstract: Digital audio signal transmission is provided for digitally processing, for transmission in a digital VCR format, audio signals from a plurality of channels into a digitized audio data segmented into blocks having a data size, each block reserved for audio data digitized from one of the channels. The audio data is converted from the channels into the blocks of digitized audio data by varying the data size of the blocks. The audio data is composed by scaling the audio data in at least one of the blocks and combining the scaled audio data with the audio data of another of the blocks into a block reserved for composite audio data.

Abstract: A recording/reproducing method for recording/reproducing digital signals on plural slanted tracks of a tape-shaped recording medium, in which, even if some of the slanted tracks are erased due to junction recording or after-recording, the signals can be reproduced satisfactorily. The input digital signals are divided into upper order bits and lower order bits, and the upper order bits are further divided into upper order side bits and lower order side bits. The data corresponding to the upper order bits, the data corresponding to the upper order side bits of the lower order bits and the data corresponding to the lower order side bits of the lower order bits are recorded in respective different slanted tracks.

Abstract: A signal recording method for recording a signal having improved sound quality while maintaining interchangeability with the pre-existing format for a digital audio disc or the like. An input signal to a signal recording device is a signal obtained on sampling with the sampling frequency exceeding 4.1 kHz and/or a signal having the number of quantization bits exceeding 16. The input signal is split by a band-splitting filter 3 into a main signal which is a 16-bit signal and a plurality of sub-signals of the frequency range other than the above frequency. Each sub-signal has its priority set by a priority calculating unit 5. The sub-signals are synthesized in the order of the decreasing priority to an inaudible area of the main signal as found by a required bit number calculating unit 4.

Abstract: A recording/reproducing method for recording/reproducing digital signals on plural slanted tracks of a tape-shaped recording medium, in which, even if some of the slanted tracks are erased due to junction recording or after-recording, the signals can be reproduced satisfactorily. The input digital signals are divided into upper order bits and lower order bits, and the upper order bits are further divided into upper order side bits and lower order side bits. The data corresponding to the upper order bits, the data corresponding to the upper order side bits of the lower order bits and the data corresponding to the lower order side bits of the lower order bits are recorded in respective different slanted tracks.

Abstract: A recording medium to which this invention is applied includes a first recording area 3 where a digital audio signal sampled at a predetermined sampling frequency and quantized by a predetermined number of bits is recorded, a first management area 2 where information for carrying out management of the digital audio signal recorded in the first recording area 3 is recorded, a second recording area 6 where a digital audio signal corresponding to the digital audio signal recorded in the first recording area 3 is recorded, and a second management area 5 where information for carrying out management of the digital audio signal recorded in the second recording area 6 is recorded, wherein discrimination data indicating that plural recording areas exist is recorded in the first management area 2.Thus, this recording medium has compatibility with the conventional CD player, and can be reproduced in the state of high sound quality by a higher rank reproducing equipment.

Abstract: An apparatus for recording video data by forming many tracks on a recording medium and/or for reproducing the video data from the tracks is provided with a memory which is arranged to have recording video data or reproduced video data supplied thereto. The apparatus detects the picture change-over portion of the video data obtained within the tracks and controls, in accordance with the detected position, an offset degree between the writing and reading addresses of the memory.

Abstract: A recording format for audio signal recording in a VCR, wherein an audio signal is divided into a predetermined number of sectors and recorded so that a video signal is recorded in a predetermined region on a track and an audio signal representing a predetermined number of N channels is recorded outside of the predetermined region, wherein the number of audio sectors located on one track is identical to 1/M times the number of channels in a magnetic tape, including an edit gap so as to permit an independent editing which is provided between the video region and audio region or between the audio sector, and wherein N and M are integers greater than 1. The number of audio sectors is reduced by 1/M as compared with the number of channels. Therefore, audio or video signals corresponding to the recovered edit gap region can be recorded, to thereby improve record capacity. An apparatus adapted to produce the record format and a corresponding method are also described.

Abstract: A reproducing apparatus for a tape-shaped recording medium having two channels recorded in forward and backward directions, respectively. The reproducing apparatus is arranged to cause a reproducing head to scan concurrently regions which respectively include the two channels, reproduce data in the forward and backward directions at a time, and convert the backward-reproduced data into forward data through writing and reading to and from a memory.

Abstract: A head arrangement and head offset are set so that the track pattern continuously recorded on a continuously running tape will be ordered in the sequence of recording when taken along the time dimension. In intermittent-feed still-speed recording, recording information is divided for recording, and the magnetic tape is fed momentarily by a distance equal to the tape amount recorded. In a helical scan magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus, intermittent still-speed recording is performed at prescribed intervals of time, and playback is performed with conditions that satisfy .vertline.v.vertline..ltoreq.r/N (N: positive integer, v: real number, r: positive real number) when the magnetic tape is played back at a speed v times as fast as normal playback speed and the rotary drum is rotated for playback at a speed r times as fast as recording speed.

Abstract: An array disk system includes a plurality of disk units respectively having at least one disk for storing data and a head for writing the data on the disk, a control unit supplied with data for controlling write operations in which the data are simultaneously written to the disk units which are coupled to the control unit in parallel, and a non-volatile memory for storing data to be written into a defective block of the disk unit. The control unit writes the data into blocks of the disk units when the disk units are free of defective blocks, and writes the data to be written into the defective block of an arbitrary one of the disk units into the non-volatile memory when the arbitrary disk unit includes the defective block. The control unit also has a function of writing the data related to the defective block and stored in the non-volatile memory into the alternate block of the arbitrary disk unit during a free time of the arbitrary disk unit.

Abstract: A digital magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus comprising a unit for recording high-definition information including video information and audio information, which is based on a first high-definition television scheme, on a recording medium in accordance with a second high-definition television scheme, the first high-definition television scheme having a first data format of a first amount of information smaller than a second amount of information of a second data format of the second high-definition television scheme, the recording unit including a circuit for allocating a recording area corresponding to a difference between the first amount of information and the second amount of information as a free recording area on which any information is selectively recorded, to match the first amount of information with the second amount of information.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for providing an indexed audio tape. The method includes the step of recording data in a guard band interposed between and parallel to two signal tracks used to record audio signals on an audio tape. The recorded data is shifted to frequencies higher than the bandwidth of the audio signals. A plurality of programs are recorded onto the two signal tracks with spaces between the programs. A nonaudible program presence signal is recorded onto the two signal tracks coincident with the plurality of programs. The nonaudible program presence signal is not recorded in the spaces between the programs. A program directory is recorded onto the guard band just before the start of each program recorded on the two signal tracks. In an embodiment, text is recorded onto the guard band parallel to and corresponding to audio in the programs recorded on the two signal tracks of the audio tape.

Abstract: A method of, and an apparatus for, the two-channel recording/playing back of signals in a VCR, wherein video data is divided into a signal with two channels to be recorded, so that HDTV signals can be recorded on a general S-VHS tape and played back therefrom. The apparatus includes: record system means for interleaving inputted data to divide it into two channels by adding dummy blocks and synchronizing blocks to the data at intervals of every two frames so as to record the data in two channels; playback system means for detecting data; and, synchronizing signal means for removing the dummy blocks and synchronizing blocks, based on the synchronizing signal, so as to format the data; means for combining and de-interleaving data of the two channels, and means for error-correcting and decoding the two channels.

Abstract: A video signal is divided into a plurality of partial signals. A time code signal is generated which is incremented every field or frame of the video signal. One of predetermined different corrective signals or calibration signals is sequentially selected in response to the time code signal. The time code signal and the selected corrective signal are interposed in segments of the partial signals which relate to a given line of the field or frame to convert the partial signals into composite signals. The composite signals are recorded on the recording medium.

Abstract: An apparatus for recording video data by forming many tracks on a recording medium and/or for reproducing the video data from the tracks is provided with a memory which is arranged to have recording video data or reproduced video data supplied thereto. The apparatus detects the picture change-over portion of the video data obtained within the tracks and controls, in accordance with the detected position, an offset degree between the writing and reading addresses of the memory.

Abstract: A camera comprises a photographic information output circuit section, a CPU, a PPM signal conversion circuit section, a drive section for a plurality of magnetic heads, and a film feeding section. The CPU converts several parallel data items which are output from the photographic information output circuit section into a single serial data item and outputs it to the PPM signal conversion circuit section provided separately from the CPU. The PPM signal conversion circuit section converts this single serial data item into several PPM signals, and then supplies the PPM signals to the magnetic head drive section.

Abstract: An apparatus for digitizing video signals and recording the digitized video signals on a recording medium. Digital video signals corresponding to one picture are subjected to a first arrangement transformation in which the arrangement of signals is transformed in each picture, and then to a second arrangement transformation in which the arrangement of signals is transformed in a plurality of pictures. The digital video signals after the first and second transformations are recorded by successively forming a plurality of parallel tracks.

Abstract: A still video device in which image signals corresponding to one frame are divided into a plurality of parts. The divided image signals are stored in memory recording areas. The divided image signals are time-expanded to be recorded in a magnetic disk, and further, the divided image signals may be time-expanded and subsampled to be recorded in the magnetic disk. Due to this time-expansion or subsampling, the bandwidth of the image signals recorded in the magnetic disk is narrower than image signals inputted to the still video device. Namely, image signals having a bandwidth broader than that of the inputted image signals can be recorded in the magnetic disk.

Abstract: The present invention relates to video recording and playback techniques and devices which create relative movement between a laser and an optical medium such as a flexible optical tape to permit recording of relatively high bandwidth signals. Further, the present invention relates to video recording and playback techniques and devices which optimize relative movement between a laser source and the optical medium in a cost-effective manner. Data spots having a set of predetermined feature sizes (i.e., set of varying hole sizes) can thus be recorded at a rate useful for high bandwidth signals (e.g., television video signals). Further, recording on a flexible optical medium (e.g., optical tape) can be performed in a manner which optimizes space efficiency on the tape.

Abstract: A video data recording apparatus which records video data by forming a number of tracks parallel with each other on a recording medium, wherein recording positions of boundaries between adjacent fields of video signal are variably located on the tracks and wherein a time code is recorded at a constant position in each of the tracks.

Abstract: An apparatus for reproducing digital information from a recording medium having a plurality of parallel tracks and digital information recorded thereon as n-channel (n being an integer greater than or equal to 2) digital signals. The n-channel digital signals are reproduced by n-reproducing heads. The digital information contained in the reproduced signals is stored in a storage device. Discriminating data is obtained for determining which of the n-channel digital signals reproduced correspond to the reproducing heads. The timing of an access device, accessing the storage device for performing a predetermined processing of the digital signals stored in the storage device relative to the reproducing timing of the digital information reproduced by the n reproducing heads, is controlled in accordance with the discrimination data.