Abstract: A display control apparatus includes a display control block with plural external connector terminals, and an oscillator block including plural oscillators. The external connector terminals are coupled to a selector for selecting one of the terminals in response to a selection signal applied thereto, with the output of the selector connected to the internal display control circuit via a second gate. A predetermined one of the terminals is coupled via a first gate to the internal display control circuit. The selection signal is coupled to the external connector terminals other than the predetermined terminal via a third gate. When the oscillator block of one type is used, the apparatus operates in a first operating mode, in which the first and third gates are closed and the second gate is opened, and when the oscillator block is of another type, the apparatus operates in a second mode in which the first and third gates are opened and the second gate is closed.

Abstract: A signal processing apparatus for use in a video cassette recorder comprising a pilot burst gate pulse generating system means responsive to horizontal synchronizing signals successively generated in correspondance with horizontal scanning periods to process the horizontal synchronizing signals so as to produce pilot burst gate pulses. The pilot burst gate pulse generating system is responsive to a first horizontal synchronizing signal to generate the pilot burst gate pulse at a timing delayed by a predetemined time period from a leading edge of a second horizontal synchronizing signal following the first horizontal synchronizing signal. This arrangement allows stable generation of the pilot burst gate pulse at a timing slightly delayed from the active edge of the corresponding horizontal synchronizing signal.

Abstract: Still image recording/playback apparatus comprising an electronic still camera having operating components including an image sensor for sensing an image and producing image signals representative thereof, a recorder for recording image signals derived from the image sensor, playback circuitry for playing back the recorded image signals and a camera controller for controlling at least the recorder and playback circuitry. An electronic player is selectively connectable to the camera and has a signal processor for processing the image signals played back by the playback circuitry to produce viewable picture signals, and a player controller for selectively controlling the operation of the electronic player. When a connection between the camera and player is detected, a predetermined operating mode for both the camera and player is established.

Abstract: Image signal recording apparatus and methods are provided for recording first and second image data on a record medium wherein the first image data are obtained through sampling of image signals at a first data rate and the second image data have a second data rate lower than the first data rate such that the second image data may be reproduced by apparatus operating at the second data rate. The second image data are formed from the first image data and recorded together with at least a portion of the first image data in predetermined areas of the recording medium. The portion of the first image data recorded on the recording medium is selected such that the first image data may be derived by reproducing apparatus operating at the first data rate from the second image data and the portion of the first image data. Area discriminating codes are recorded on the recording medium for identifying the predetermined areas in which the second image data and the portion of the first image data are recorded.

Abstract: The prism reflector installed immediately above an indicator's display surface consists of a prism and a flange portion that is flush with one surface of the prism and which extends from the periphery of that surface. The surface of the prism and the flange portion form a reflecting surface. A reflector plate is arranged to face the reflecting surface of the prism reflector and has a concave surface, whose light axis is inclined with respect to the reflecting surface of the prism reflector toward the thicker side of the prism. Light from the indicator's display enters the prism, is refracted as it leaves the reflecting surface, and travels toward the reflector plate's concave surface, which reflects the incident light back toward the reflecting surface of the prism reflector, which then reflects it toward the driver's viewing point.

Abstract: Apparatus for identifying edit points in a digital audio signal recorded on a record medium in association with a video signal and a time code signal, comprises a random access memory (3) for storing a reproduced segment of the digital audio signal and the associated time code signal, a monitor (2) for displaying the image corresponding to a reproduced portion of the associated video signal, a digital-to-analog converter for converting that part of the segment of the digital audio signal corresponding to the displayed image and read from the random access memory (3) by reference to the stored time code for reproduction by a loudspeaker (4), a video screen (6) for displaying the waveform of the analog-converted audio signal with a cursor (8) which relates the waveform to the image displayed on the monitor (2), and a register (7) for recording the time code read from the random access memory (3) and corresponding to a required audio edit point at which the cursor is positioned.

Abstract: An optical system for an optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus that irradiates laser light emitted from a light emitting diode (8) to an opto-magnetic disk (2) via a relay prism (11) and an objective lens (12) and irradiates light reflected by said opto-magnetic disk to a light-receiving diode (15 A,B), and which has a first moving portion (22) that holds the objective lens, a second moving portion (33) that holds the relay prism, a connection mechanism connecting the first moving portion and the second moving portion, a focus moving device (21) to move said first moving portion in the direction of focus, and a tracking feed moving device (27) to move the first and second moving portions in the direction of tracking feed.

Abstract: A window displayed on a user interface can be incrementally enlarged or reduced by selecting an appropriate sizing icon. There are provided an enlarge icon and a reduce icon in the window title bar. To resize the window, the user selects the appropriate icon with the cursor. The window will change its border size according to a predetermined incremental value. The data that is displayed inside of the newly sized window is determined and then displayed. By continuously selecting one of the sizing icons, the window will be continuously sized in an incremental manner until the user terminates the selection or until the maximum or minimum window limits are reached. As the window is resized, the cursor remains attached to the selected icon. During resizing of the window, one border corner is fixed in position on the interface while the opposite border corner is moved.

Abstract: A drop-out detecting apparatus comprises an amplitude detecting circuit supplied with a high frequency video signal reproduced from a record medium, a first smoothing circuit supplied with a detected output of the amplitude detecting circuit and having a short time constant so that it produces an output having a drop-out, a second smoothing circuit supplied with the detected output of the amplitude detecting circuit and having a long time constant so that it produces an output having no drop-out, a detecting circuit for level-comparing a smoothed output of the second smoothing circuit and a first reference level to produce an output of large or small level, and a comparing circuit for level-comparing a smoothed output of the first smoothing circuit and a second reference level provided by attenuating the detected output of the detecting circuit by a predetermined attenuating ratio, wherein the comparing circuit derives a drop-out detecting signal.

Abstract: A television receiver includes a frequency multiplexed video processor which processes chrominance and luminance signals in response to synchronously detected composite video information. The composite video signal is separated into a plurality of frequency spectra which are individually processed utilizing digital electronic circuitry to achieve high performance and cost effectiveness. A comb filter is operative within one of the processors to provide separation of the luminance and chrominance information within the chrominance signal bandpass to maintain high frequency luminance signal components. A separate processor and bandpass filter are operative to provide separate control of the luminance peaking within the system. Conventional luminance and chrominance processing converts the output signals of the multiplexed processor to RGB video signals which are applied to a conventional cathode ray tube display having a conventional deflection system associated therewith.

Abstract: A video noise reduction system is incorporated with a video recorder for the elimination of high frequency noise from only the gray level portions of a video signal being retrieved from magnetic tape. The frequency modulated video signal retrieved from the tape is directed through a demodulator into a voltage dependent low pass filter having a cutoff frequency which is normally sufficiently high to pass the unmodulated video signal from the demodulator without attenuation. The frequency modulated video signal is also fed into a band elimination filter having an attenuation band corresponding to the gray level of brightness. The output from the band elimination filter is detected, and a variable voltage is impressed to the low pass filter for lowering its cutoff frequency whenever the frequency modulated video signal has gray frequencies. Alternate embodiments are disclosed in which the cutoff frequency is lowered to different preselected values for different levels of brightness.

Abstract: In a method for detecting a defect in a prepit as a sampling object formed on a recording face of an information recording medium in an optical or magnetooptic disk drive unit, an optical or magnetooptic disk is used as the information recording medium and focusing and tracking controls are performed by using a sample servo system at recording and reproducing times of information.

Abstract: An information recording medium playing apparatus detects a preset memory command of every data unit of a graphics information signal of a subcode of a CD format signal which playing an information recording medium. During play operation, address data corresponding to the respective preset memory commands are constantly stored in a memory. In a search mode, the head of desired graphics information is searched on the basis of the address data stored in the memory.

Abstract: A novel cable interconnect system provides for the overnight delivery of advertising messages to optical disc libraries located at cable headends and for the automated and customized insertion of ads on a plurality of cable systems throughout a wide geographic area. A verification and accounting system provides ad run verification and accounting information. The cable interconnect enables the delivery of commercial messages, for example via satellite, on an overnight basis from a central control facility to cable television system headends located in any desired geographic area such that a large number of cable television systems can receive the video ads simultaneously.

Abstract: In a display device having a plurality of scanning-side electrodes arranged in one direction, a plurality of data-side electrodes arranged in a second direction intersection the first direction, and dielectric layers interposed therebetween, a modulated voltage the magnitude of which is varied according to the emission or non-emission of light is applied to the data-side electrodes, while applying a write voltage in line sequential fashion to the scanning-side electrodes, thereby performing the display control. In such a display device, the polarity of the voltage applied between the data-side electrode and the scanning-side electrode corresponding to the picture element to be driven for light emission is reversed one or more times during the period in which the write voltage is being applied to the scanning-side electrode. This serves to reduce the modulated voltage and the write voltage, thus contributing to the reduction in power consumption.