Abstract: A jitter compensation system in a rotary recording medium reproducing apparatus having a motor for rotating a rotary recording medium, and a reproducing transducer including a reproducing element for reproducing a recorded video signal from said rotary recording medium, comprises a separation circuit for separating a horizontal synchronizing signal from the video signal reproduced by the reproducing transducer, a circuit for supplying a reference signal, a phase comparator for comparing phases of the separated horizontal synchronizing signal and the reference signal supplied thereto, to produce a phase comparison error signal, a circuit for displacing the reproducing element of the reproducing transducer along a relative scanning direction with respect to the rotary recording medium, in response to the output error signal of the phase comparator, a variable frequency oscillator supplied with the output error signal of the phase comparator, and controlled of the output oscillation frequency, a detection circui

Abstract: An optical apparatus reproduces an information signal recorded as pits along track turns of a rotating recording medium. At least one kind of reference signal is recorded along and overlapping the lateral edges of the adjacent track turns of the information signal. A light source projects a first light beam onto the surface of the recording medium to simultaneously reproduce the information and reference signals. A detector responds to reflections of the projected light which includes and reproduces the information signal and the reference signal. The optical system is controlled so that the center of the light beam coincides with the centerline of the track. A circuit separates the reference signal from the total reproduced signal and produces a tracking control signal in response thereto.The optical system also projects a second light beam onto the recording medium and its reflected component is used for focus control.

Abstract: Apparatus reproduces a normally recorded video signal in a special mode, such as slow motion and stop motion; for example, a plurality of successive TV fields are recorded in each complete revolution of a rotary medium having a spiral track. One field is selected from the revolution and is re-recorded or stored in a memory. That one field may then be played back repeatedly to give the special mode reproduction. A signal processing means processes the repeated playback.

Abstract: A recording system records a television video signal of 60 fields per second converted from a signal of the picture image content of a cinematographic film for projection at 24 film frames per second, in a manner such that the video signal has parts in each of which the picture image content of one and the same film frame continues during at least 4 fields thereof, along a spiral track on a rotating recording medium rotating at a rotational speed of 900 revolutions per second at a recording rate of 4 fields per revolution of the recording medium.

Abstract: A rotation control system is used in an apparatus for reproducing information signals from a rotary recording medium by use of a reproducing stylus, wherein the rotary recording medium having the information signals recorded thereon so that the relative velocity between a recording element and the rotary recording medium is maintained constant.

Abstract: A high-speed reproducing system is employed in an apparatus for reproducing signals from a rotary recording medium having an information signal recorded in the track formed thereon in a spiral path or a concentric circular form and having reference signals recorded thereon interrelatedly with the information signal track, the high-speed reproducing system comprises a reproducing transducer having a reproducing element for reproducing the information signal and the reference signals recorded on the rotary recording medium, and tracking control mechanism for accomplishing tracking control so that the reproducing element traces the information signal track, a feeding mechanism for feeding the reproducing transducer in a feeding travel over the rotary recording medium, with transducer movement in the radial direction thereof, a circuit for producing a tracking control signal in response to the reference signals reproduced by the reproducing transducer and for supplying the tracking control signal to the tracking

Abstract: The feeding device feeds a reproducing transducer in an apparatus for reproducing signals from a rotary recording medium having an information signal recording track formed thereon in a spiral path or concentric circular form and having reference signals recorded thereon interrelatedly with the information signal track. The reproducing transducer has a reproducing element for reproducing the information signal and the reference signals recorded on the rotary recording medium and tracking control mechanism for accomplishing tracking control so that the reproducing element traces the information signal track.

Abstract: A reproducing transducer, in an apparatus for reproducing an information signal recorded on a track on a rotary recording medium, comprises a reproducing tracing element for tracing the track on the rotary recording medium thereby to reproduce the information signal, a cantilever supported at a proximal end thereof by way of a damper and provided at a free distal end thereof with the reproducing tracing element, a mechanism for detecting any deviation of the tracing position of the reproducing tracing element from a proper tracing position relative to the track and generating a tracking control signal in response to the deviation. A unit supplies the current of the tracking control signal to the cantilever or an electric conductor secured to the cantilever, and a permanent magnet applies a magnetic field to the cantilever or the electric conductor.