Abstract: An apparatus for recording an reproducing a digital video signal is disclosed which includes n sampling circuits each for performing a sub-Nyquist sampling operation for the digital video signal in such a manner that the amount of data is reduced to one-n-th of an original amount (where n is a positive integer) and a pixel sampled by the sub-Nyquist sampling operation is not sampled by the remaining sampling circuits, recording/reproducing means for recording and reproducing information at all or part of pixels which are sampled by the n sampling circuits and a device for reconstructing the digital video signal from reproduced information at pixels with the aid of a synthesizing technique or interpolation technique.

Abstract: A demodulation circuit for demodulating a modulated digital including a unit for detecting a specific pattern contained in a series of data before modulation, a unit for judging the phase relation between the specific pattern and a clock pulse used for demodulation, a unit for performing a counting operation on the basis of the result of said judgment, and a unit for controlling the phase of said clock pulse for demodulation on the basis of the count.

Abstract: A device for decoding coded digital signals for every symbol consisting of a plurality of binary signals comprises first circuit for generating a first reliability for every binary signal; hard decided from the received or reproduced signal, in the symbol and second circuit for generating a second reliability for every symbol consisting of n binary signals on the basis of the first reliability, whereby decoding processing e.g. soft decision decoding is effected for every signal, depending on the second reliability.

Abstract: An error detection and/or correction is achieved in the horizontal direction in a block and then an error state is determined by use of an error correction in the vertical direction; furthermore, the correcting system is changed over according to the result of the determination.

Abstract: In medical image treating systems, especially when an X-ray image intensifier and TV camera are used, video signals composed of available video signals containing specified image information and unavailable video signals containing no such image information are output from the TV camera. Only the digital video signals of the converted digital video signals corresponding to the available video signals are treated and the digital video signals after treatment are recorded and reproduced with a recording device.

Abstract: A method of converting a digital video signal including first words each being composed of N.sub.1 bits into a digital video signal which consists of second words each being composed of N.sub.2 bits (N.sub.2 <N.sub.1) by separating each of the first words into a first portion which consists of the N.sub.2 bits including a most significant bit and a second portion which consists of the remaining (N.sub.1 -N.sub.2) bits including a least significant bit, and storing the first portions of the first words and the second portions. Third words each of which consists of N.sub.2 bits are then composed by sequentially arranging the second portions. A first group of words which represent converted digital image signal are composed by first portions, and a second group of words are composed by sequentially linking the third words. Each scanning line of a converted digital video signal is then composed by the second group of words sequentially arranged before or after the first group of words.

Abstract: An apparatus for regenerating original signals comprising: means for introducing a first signal that is produced as an original signal passes through a system that cuts off predetermined frequencies; a first circuit means which produces a third signal obtained on an open loop responsive to said first signal and a second signal which is regenerated from a signal of a predetermined frequency that is cut off by said system; and a second circuit means which regenerates the original signal by converting said third signal into a binary signal.

Abstract: An improved 8-8 mpping table system in digitally and magnetically recording video signals. Video signals coded into natural binary codes consisting of 8 bits are converted into different binary codes consisting of 8 bits constituted by patterns in which a continuous number of the 1's or the 0's does not exceed a predetermined number. In these codes, the continuous number of the 1's or the 0's is so limited that a maximum magnetization interval is reduced in magnetically recording the signals. Therefore, erroneous code is prevented from occurring in reproducing the signals.

Abstract: Parity bits (check bits) having a relatively high redundancy are added to upper significant bits of a digital signal, and parity bits having a relatively low redundancy, are added to the lower significant bits of the digital signal. The signal and the parity bits are recorded on a recording medium. The position of an error in a data block group of the lower bits reproduced from the recording medium is estimated as existing in a block in which the error is detected by the check of the data block group of the upper bits, and in the blocks preceding and subsequent to the former.This error correction method is most suitable for a recording and reproduction system of digital video signals.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for decoding double-encoding codes in which the information to be decoded comprises a first data and a second data. The operation for decoding double-encoding codes is achieved through two stages. A decoder of the first stage checks the first data, and when an error is found in the first data, all symbols of the first data are assumed to be wrong. The first-stage decoder then adds an erasure flag to all symbols to generate erasure symbols. As a result, these erasure symbols include the symbols which are actually erroneous and those which are correct. A decoder of the second stage is used to perform an error correction on the second data. For this purpose, the second-stage decoder detects the number of erasure symbols which are contained in the second data and which are actually erroneous.

Abstract: In the code modulation system for converting input data levels into an output signal in the form of code words by providing M input levels among N input levels assigned to input data with stairlike code weights on the basis of the input levels, (N-M) input levels which are the difference between said N input levels and said M input levels are respectively disposed near transition points where said stairlike code weight is changed, and the code weights are provided with hysteresis in the ascent process and the descent process of the input data level.

Abstract: A pulse generator circuit for a solid-state television camera comprising a first circuit arrangement including a shift register of endless type for obtaining pulses of a horizontal scanning frequency for television, a second circuit arrangement for obtaining necessary pulse trains of the horizontal scanning frequency for a television camera from a plurality of output pulses of the shift register and a third circuit arrangement for dividing the pulse obtained by the second circuit arrangement by two-different factors of mode, n and n+1, and delaying the 1/n frequency-divided mode pulse by 1/2 horizontal scanning period in response to the output pulse from the second circuit arrangement thereby obtaining a frame pulse capable of interlaced scanning.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a color imaging device which suppresses false color signals appearing in an area where the difference of brightnesses is great in the horizontal or vertical direction.When the correlation between picture elements adjacent in the vertical direction is little and the false signal appears in a boundary part in the vertical direction, the false signal is detected, whereupon a color signal is demodulated by utilizing the correlation between the signals of picture elements in the horizontal direction. On the other hand, when the correlation between picture elements adjacent in the horizontal direction is little and the false signal appears in a boundary part in the horizontal direction, the false signal is detected, whereupon a color signal is demodulated by utilizing the correlation between the signals of picture elements in the vertical direction.As a result, the moire phenomenon attributed to the false color signals can be conspicuously reduced.

Abstract: A color imaging apparatus having a plurality of image pickup tubes which pick up respective optical images of primary colors separated from one optical image includes a registration control circuit which operates to hold a picture of high quality at all times by controlling the registration of the images of the respective image pickup tubes on a real time basis during the operation of the camera. To this end a circuit detects those local image signals which satisfy predetermined requisites which are most favorable for use as reference signals to control the registration and these detected image signals are temporarily stored so as to be used for the registration operation. The most favorable requisites of the local image areas selected for registration control are (1) those having no movement, (2) those having a contour which is sharp and (3) those having a chroma which is low.

Abstract: This invention relates to a solid-state imaging apparatus wherein photo signals are read out through MOS type FETs from photosensors such as photodiodes arrayed in two dimensions in large numbers, and consists in remarkably enhancing the signal-to-noise ratio of an output signal by reducing or eliminating noise components to mix into the photo signals.The analysis of the noise components has revealed the correlation in which the noise component in a certain polarity develops in the opposite polarity again after a period that is shorter than one horizontal scanning period by the duration of one horizontal scanning pulse. With note taken of the correlation, a solid-state imaging apparatus comprising a processing circuit which includes a delay circuit and an adder circuit and which cancels the noise is provided.

Abstract: A signal processing circuit for use in a solid-state camera comprising a sensor for deriving an electrical signal from the camera, a preamplifier for amplifying the output of the sensor and an integrator for integrating the output of the preamplifier. A specific circuit arrangement is provided for the preamplifier to narrow the bandwidth of the preamplifier, so that an abnormal increase of noise in the electrical signal is effectively suppressed.

Abstract: Information play-back apparatus comprising a laser source, a recording medium, a photodetector, a first optical system which conducts a laser beam from the laser source to an information track on the recording medium as a read spot, and a second optical system which conducts a reflected laser beam from the information track to the photodetector through an optical element having the unidirectional lens action, said optical element being arranged in a manner to define an angle of about 45 degrees relative to the direction of the information track, and said photodetector having at least four light receiving portions divided symmetrically about two axes such that at least one light receiving portion is in each of the four quadrants formed by two axes, and one of the axes is parallel to the direction of the information track.

Abstract: A solid-state imaging apparatus comprising first means for sample-holding spike noise generated from a horizontal switching element constituting the apparatus second means for sample-holding spike noise opposite in phase to the first-mentioned spike noise, and third means for adding outputs of the first and second means.

Abstract: In a solid state color imaging apparatus comprising photo sensitive element arrays arranged horizontally and vertically, means for reading out parallel photo signals of the photo sensitive element arrays on two horizontal lines and delivering the read out photo signals to first and second output circuits, and a mosaic color filter disposed in front of the photo sensitive elements and having luminance filtering counterparts arranged horizontally and vertically one after the other and two types of color filtering counterparts arranged at the remaining positions and on alternate horizontal lines, the horizontal clock from the reading out means has a frequency of 7.16 MHz so that color difference signals having the chrominance subcarrier component of 3.58 MHz are directly obtained in the first and second output circuits.

Abstract: A solid-state color imaging device is provided including a plurality of photosensors which are arrayed in horizontal and vertical directions, and a mosaic color filter made up of filter elements arranged in correspondence with the respective photosensors. The mosaic color filter is arranged such that any group of four adjacent filter elements comprises a first filter which is made for panchromatic transmission, a second filter which is selected from among a first spectral region-transmitting filter, a second spectral region-transmitting filter and a third spectral region-transmitting filter respectively exhibiting different transmission characteristics, and third and fourth filters which are made of complementary color filters which transmit the transmission light component of the second filter and which have transmission components different from each other.