Abstract: A training machine including a load unit (13) and a pedal (12) or the like for providing an exerciser with predetermined exercise and a display (17) for displaying an image, further including a storage unit (24) for storing a reference range of the heart rate of the exerciser being exercising, a storage unit (24) for storing a plurality of types of images, a heart rate sensor (21A) for sensing the heart rate of the exerciser, a sensor signal detection processing unit and display-audio output processing unit (27B, 27A) for judging whether the exercising state of the exerciser is proper, wherein the display-audio output processing unit (27A) retrieves the image corresponding to the exercising state from the storage unit (24) and displays it on a display unit (17).

Abstract: A training machine including a load unit (13) and a pedal (12) or the like for providing an exerciser with predetermined exercise and a display (17) for displaying an image, further including a storage unit (24) for storing a reference range of the heart rate of the exerciser being exercising, a storage unit (24) for storing a plurality of types of images, a heart rate sensor (21A) for sensing the heart rate of the exerciser, a sensor signal detection processing unit and display-audio output processing unit (27B, 27A) for judging whether the exercising state of the exerciser is proper, wherein the display-audio output processing unit (27A) retrieves the image corresponding to the exercising state from the storage unit (24) and displays it on a display unit (17).

Abstract: A training machine including a load unit (13) and a pedal (12) or the like for providing an exerciser with predetermined exercise and a display (17) for displaying an image, further including a storage unit (24) for storing a reference range of the heart rate of the exerciser being exercising, a storage unit (24) for storing a plurality of types of images, a heart rate sensor (21A) for sensing the heart rate of the exerciser, a sensor signal detection processing unit and display-audio output processing unit (27B, 27A) for judging whether the exercising state of the exerciser is proper, wherein the display-audio output processing unit (27A) retrieves the image corresponding to the exercising state from the storage unit (24) and displays it on a display unit (17).

Abstract: An optical recording medium has a data storage section including data tracks and tracking lines formed in the data storage section for reading or writing data. The optical recording medium includes an elongated recording region defined between each two adjacent tracking lines, each of the data recording regions having at least one data track disposed offset from the center of the data recording region. The tracking method for the medium includes establishing a first optical detection region on the medium for detecting the tracking line position relative to the detection region and establishing a second optical detection region on the medium for reading or writing which is positioned in a fixed relationship to the first optical detection region.

Abstract: A reader/writer apparatus for an optical memory card for reading and/or writing data with respect to the optical memory card having a data storing face, which apparatus comprises a card holder including a carriage carrying and holding the card inserted and transporting the card to a reading or writing position and a feeding mechanism for driving the carriage. The reader/writer of the present invention may further comprise an optical waveguide holder holding an optical waveguide, which is connected, at a base end thereof, to the light emitting and receiving section of a reading head, so that another end of the optical waveguide may oppose a data recording face of the optical memory card. The waveguide holder is moved independently of the movement of the car holder. The reader/writer apparatus of the present invention may further comprise a regulating member for regulating the angular position of the card.

Abstract: A recording format for an optical recording medium having a rectangular data recording region capable of containing n data-bit lines. In the recording format, the data recording region is sectioned into bands having a width corresponding to an appropriate number of data-bit lines to form blocks. Each of the blocks is provided with an identifier to allow the access by block units. Each of the blocks may be formed of a group of data-bit lines and check bit line. Each block may have a plurality of sectors. The blocks may be sectioned by boundary information lines having a specific code pattern.

Abstract: A reader-writer apparatus for an optical memory card for reading and/or writing data with respect to the optical memory card having a data storing face, which apparatus includes a card holder including a carriage for carrying and holding the card inserted thereon and transporting the card to a reading or writing position and a feeding mechanism for driving the carriage. The reader/writer in another aspect of the present invention includes an optical waveguide holder holding an optical waveguide, which is connected at a base end thereof to the light emitting and receiving section of a reading head, so that another end of the optical waveguide may oppose a data recording face of the optical memory card. The waveguide holder is moved independently of the movement of the card holder.

Abstract: An optical recording medium having a plurality of tracks juxtaposed each other and capable of easily and rapidly detecting a desired track. An optical recording medium includes a data recording region in which the tracks are juxtaposed each other and a track detecting region provided at a part of the data recording region. The track detecting region includes track guides juxtaposed along respective tracks and track number guides corresponding to a locus of the movement of an optical head in the access to a desired track, the track number guides intersecting the track guides.

Abstract: A data record formatting system for an optical recording medium in which the reading and/or writing is carried out along tracking lines, and a data reading/writing system for the optical recording medium of the type is disclosed. The data record formatting system for the optical recording medium comprises tracking portions used as a reference for the reading and/or writing operation and data recording portions for storing data. The tracking portion and the data recording portions are alternately arranged along the same line in a data recording region of the optical recording medium. The data reading/writing system for the optical recording medium comprises a track-tracing detecting arrangement for setting a light spot or spots on the optical recording medium to trace the tracking portions and a reading/writing arrangement for setting a light spot on the optical recording medium to read and/or write the data.

Abstract: An optical recording medium which has data tracks and tracking lines juxtaposed with each other in a data recording region so as to write/read data into/from the data tracks, using the tracking lines as a reference. The data recording region is so configured as to have recessed portions and raised portions arranged alternatingly and extending along each other in a direction of data reading/writing. The so formed recessed portions and raised portions provide data tracks. With this configuration, the boundary edges between the respective recessed portions and the respective raised portions are used as tracking lines, so that data can be written in the recessed or raised portions, referring to the boundary edges as tracking lines.

Abstract: A tracking method for reading/writing data with respect to an optical recording medium having clock tracks each formed of clock bits of optical patterns and data tracks. The method is carried out by irradiating from an optical lead side a pair of light beams onto a pair of clock tracks, with the beams so deviated from each other in a direction of relative movement of the optical head with respect to the medium that beam detection signals may have a difference in phase therebetween. Reflections of the respective light beams from the clock tracks are detected and a difference signal between reflections determined from the detection signals is obtained. A tracking-error signal from the difference signal is extracted and a zero-crossing point of the difference signal then is detected to extract a clock signal.

Abstract: An optical recording medium which is capable of easily effecting a tracking operation in the writing/reading for an optical recording medium of a type in which a plurality of data record tracks and provided, in a recording region of the medium, so as to be disposed side by side and spaced from each other at predetermined intervals. The optical recording medium of the present invention comprising at least one home position setting mark for setting a reference position for each of the data record tracks so that the writing/reading of data may be carried out by using the home position setting mark as a reference. The home position setting mark may have track position marks at positions corresponding to the respective data record tracks for indicating the positions of the respective data record tracks.

Abstract: Disclosed is a write-once data writing method for optical recording medium of a type wherein a data track includes a plurality of sectors each having at least a preamble and data. A deceleration region is provided at a position following the last recorded sector on a track including both recorded and blank areas, the length of the deceleration region corresponding to a deceleration time necessary to change the relative moving rate of a writing/reading head with respect to the optical recording medium from one for reading to another for writing, and then additional data is recorded sector by sector at region following said deceleration region. Also, disclosed is an apparatus for achieving the method.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting a focussing position wherein a difference between photoelectric outputs from two photodetectors is amplified by a differential amplifier to detect a deviation of a focal point of a reader/writer head in the reading/writing operation for an optical recording medium.Prior to the amplification of the difference between the photoelectric outputs from the photodetectors, the output voltage from one of the photodetectors is changed to be input to the differential amplifier and the changing ratio is set so that the output from the differential amplifier will be zero when focalized.For this purpose, a voltage changing device for changing the photoelectric output from the photodetector is provided between an output of the photodetector and an input of the differential amplifier.