Abstract: An analog signal to be delayed thereby is compressed according to a monotonously increasing, convex compression function and sent to a delay circuit constituted digitally. Data of a digital value stored in a memory is read out after a constant delay time and converted into an analog signal by a D/A converter. The analog signal is expanded according to a reverse function of the compression function to restore it as an echo signal.

Abstract: This invention includes a compression circuit for compress one of an audio signal and a mixture of the audio signal and an echo signal, a delay circuit for delaying an output signal of the compression circuit by a predetermined time and an expansion circuit having a conversion rate controlled by a DC voltage generated correspondingly to a regulation of the volume controller, for expanding the output signal of the delay circuit according to a reverse conversion function to the compression conversion function to generate the echo signal.

Abstract: A transmission gate having a CMOS structure wherein an NMOS transistor and a PMOS transistor are connected in parallel between an input signal line and an output signal line and a separation layer which separates a transistor formation region for one of the PMOS transistor and the NMOS transistor formed in a substrate from the substrate, wherein the back gates of the respective transistors are constituted to receive an input signal from the input signal line when the one transistor and the other transistor formed in a well region are in a conductive state.

Abstract: As a switch circuit SW1 is incorporated in an integrated circuit, the number of IC terminals is proportionately reducible. On receiving a mute input signal Min, a mute circuit 13 generates a mute control signal M1 and subsequently a mute control signal M2 later than M1. On receiving the mute control signal M1, the switch circuit SW1 grounds the signal line of an audio output signal A, whereas on receiving the mute control signal M2, a switch circuit SW2 cuts the signal line of an audio input signal I later. A muting function can thus be fulfilled stably.

Abstract: A long period pendulum damping equipment having right and left pair of longer rods, right and left pair of shorter rods and a tie beam connecting these longer rods and shorter rods one another, in which a tilt angle interlocking means of both rods installed at right and left end portions of the tie beam, respectively, and keeping the tilt angle in one direction of the longer rod with respect to a vertical line always equal to the tilt angle in another direction of the shorter rod or certain ratio times thereof is provided, and a long period is provided and an installation space is made small while making the overall height low by pivoting a weight to either one of the longer or shorter rod.

Abstract: A recording mode discriminating circuit corresponding to reproduced signals of first and second recording modes in which a carrier frequency of frequency-modulated luminance signal becomes high and low includes a first bandpass filter using an upper side band wave frequency of the first recording mode as a central frequency thereof, a second bandpass filter using a predetermined carrier frequency of the second recording mode as a central frequency thereof, a discharge control circuit for flowing or interrupting a current of a first predetermined value in response to the presence or absence of the first bandpass filter when the reproduced signals are supplied, a charge and discharge control circuit for flowing or interrupting a current of a second predetermined value smaller than the first predetermined value in response to the presence or absence of the output of the second bandpass filter, and a capacitor commonly connected to the discharging circuit and the charging and discharging circuit, wherein the reco

Abstract: In transmitting, for example, by recording and reproducing, fields of video signals each having a core portion and side portions adjacent to such core portion and comprised of luminance and chrominance signals, the luminance signal which is desirably frequency modulated and the chrominance signal which is desirably frequency converted to a lower frequency band are combined and transmitted or recorded during the core portion of each field to provide a display of increased aspect ratio, and the chrominance signal is decoded into color difference signals which are time-compressed and then frequency modulated prior to being transmitted or recorded during the side portions of each field for enhancing the color of the displayed picture.

Abstract: Disclosed is a dynamic damper which is to absorb building vibrations in any horizontal directions, not restricted to one direction. For example, it comprises an oscillating body which is held to move horizontally, a plurality of ball screws which are arranged perpendicularly to each other with a height difference among them and which have a nut portion on the side of the oscillating body and a screw shaft engaging with said nut portion, and motors which reciprocate the oscillating body according to the period of vibration of the building by turning the ball screws.

Abstract: A tape recording apparatus is capable of operation in either a normal recording mode or a high band recording mode. Detecting holes to indicate whether a tape cassette loaded into the recording apparatus is designed for the normal recording mode or the high band recording mode are formed in the tape cassette. The kind of cassette is detected from the detecting holes, and the high band recording mode or the normal recording mode is automatically set in accordance with the kind of tape cassette detected. The automatic setting can be selectively cancelled, however, in which case the recording can be executed in the normal recording mode even if a tape cassette designed for the high band recording mode has been loaded into the recording apparatus.

Abstract: A processing circuit for a composite color television signal formed of a chrominance component and a luminance component includes a comb filter of the type including a 1H delay line. In order to process the chrominance component, the comb filter is followed by an operational circuit providing a difference signal representing vertical correlation of the input chrominance component for consecutive line intervals, and a feedback loop circuit for combining the input chrominance component with the feedback difference signal before application to the comb filter. A detecting circuit detects correlation of video information in the luminance component in vertically aligned portions of successive horizontal line intervals, and provides a detecting signal which is used to adjust the feedback loop gain on the feedback loop circuit in accordance with the detecting signal.

Abstract: A video signal processing circuit eliminates an interfering signal that is included in a video signal, and is especially effective for eliminating an intefering signal that results from reproducing a video signal that is recorded in successive slant tracks on a recording medium, such as magnetic tape. In the video signal processing circuit, a delay line delays at least the luminance component of the video signal by a predetermined number of horizontal line intervals, a first subtracting circuit combines the delayed luminance component with the undelayed luminance component to produce a first difference signal, a limter limits the first difference signal and presents the limited first difference signal to a second subtracting circuit, where the latter signal is subtractively combined with the delayed luminance signal to produce an output signal free of interfering signals.

Abstract: In apparatus for recording and reproducing video signals in successive parallel tracks of reduced width and without guard bands therebetween so as to achieve a high recording density on the magnetic tape or other record medium, and in which a high frequency portion of the video signals, for example, the luminance component of color video signals, is frequency modulated for the recording thereof, processing circuits are operative in the recording and reproducing modes of operation to act on the luminance component prior to its frequency modulation in recording and after its demodulation in reproducing, respectively, for substantially eliminating from the demodulated luminance component the usual FM noise signal and also any interfering signal due to cross-talk, for example, as results from a lack of H-alignment between the signals recorded in adjacent tracks when the apparatus is intended to be operated with two different tape speeds.

Abstract: In an apparatus for reproducing video signals which are recorded as modulations of a carrier on a record medium, such as a magnetic tape, in successive, abutting parallel record tracks, with the signals being recorded in alternating tracks with different first and second azimuth angles, first and second magnetic heads are provided for sequentially scanning the tracks in which signals are recorded with the first and second azimuth angles, respectively, and the first and second magnetic heads having azimuth angles corresponding to the first and second azimuth angles of the respective tracks to be scanned thereby. Each of the magnetic heads is dimensioned and guided in the direction transverse to the direction along the respective track being scanned so as to overlap an adjacent track by a distance .DELTA.W=n.lambda./tan .theta.(n=1,2, . . .), in which .lambda. is the wavelength of the carrier as modulated by synchronizing signal portions of the video signals recorded in such adjacent track, and .theta.

Abstract: Video signal processing circuitry for compensating a video signal having different average levels in alternate horizontal line intervals, such as in odd and even line intervals during a field or frame interval. A first average detector is operable during alternate ones of the line intervals, for example, during odd line intervals, for detecting the average level of the video signal in such alternate line intervals. A second average detector is operable during the remaining ones of the line intervals, for example, during the even line intervals, for detecting the average level of the video signal in such remaining line intervals. A compensating circuit is responsive to the difference between the detected average levels of the video signal in the alternate and remaining line intervals, respectively, for producing compensating signals. These compensating signals are combined with the video signal so as to minimize the difference between the average level of the video signal in successive line intervals.

Abstract: In apparatus for recording and/or reproducing video signals in successive parallel tracks on a record medium, and in which at least a portion of the video signals, for example, the luminance component of color video signals, is recorded as a frequency modulation on a carrier, the carrier of the frequency modulated portion of the video signals, as recorded in tracks that are next adjacent to each other, has different first and second carrier frequencies, respectively, which are in frequency interleaving relation to each other for minimizing cross-talk when reproducing the signals thus recorded. The shifting of the carrier frequency for the frequency modulated luminance component is conveniently achieved by selectively applying different first and second bias voltages to the luminance component as supplied to a frequency modulator, with the difference between such bias voltages being effective in the modulator to establish the desired difference between the carrier frequencies.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for recording a video signal in successive parallel tracks on a record medium, and for reproducing the recorded signal. The video signal, which may be the luminance component of a composite color television signal, frequency modulates a carrier to produce a frequency modulated video signal. The phase of the frequency modulated video signal is selectively shifted in selected line intervals and is recorded in parallel tracks such that the phase difference between frequency modulated video signals in at least some adjacently recorded line intervals of successive tracks is an odd multiple of .pi.. In one embodiment, the difference between the phase of alternate line intervals which are recorded in one track and the phase of alternate line intervals which are recorded in the next adjacent track is equal to an odd multiple of .pi..

Abstract: In apparatus for recording and reproducing video signals in successive parallel tracks on a magnetic tape by means of magnetic heads or transducers repeatedly traversing the tape at a steady rate while the tape is driven longitudinally, and in which at least a portion of the video signals, for example, the luminance component of color video signals, frequency modulates a carrier to provide frequency modulated signals applied to the heads for recording in the tracks; the speed at which the tape is driven is reduced from a normal value to a relatively slow speed for eliminating guard bands between the tracks and reducing the widths of the latter so as to achieve a high recording density on the tape, and the frequency deviation of the frequency modulated signals applied to the heads is relatively reduced when the tape is driven at such slow speed during recording for minimizing the interfering signal due to cross-talk that occurs upon reproducing of the signals recorded in the tracks of reduced width without gua