Abstract: A recording and/or reproducing apparatus in which a head is driven along a disk while the disc in rotated. A rotation speed control and a rotation phase control are provided to control the disc rotation. The apparatus is operated in a phase control mode until the phase of the disc rotation deviates from a reference phase by a predetermined amount. Then the apparatus switches to speed control a memory is used to store data concerning start up information to reduce the required amount of start up time required in future operations.

Abstract: A recording or reproducing apparatus is provided with a device for detecting and memorizing the replacement of a recording medium made even after a power supply is cut off. This prevents any error from occurring in a preset sequence of automatic operation processes to be carried out after the power supply is switched on, such as an automatic blank recording-track detecting operation.

Abstract: A magnetic disc recording apparatus comprises a search mechanism for searching for an unrecorded position on the disc to properly continue the recording to the same disc and a head control mechanism for setting a recording head at the searched unrecorded position on the disc. The search mechanism operates when it is detected that the disc has been replaced or exchanged. The head control mechanism sets the head at a predetermined preparatory position for searching, corresponding to an extremity of a predetermined searching range of the search mechanism for searching for the unrecorded position when there is an indication that the disc has been unloaded.

Abstract: A recording apparatus comprises a recording head arranged to record signals on a recording medium; a motor for shifting a relative position between the recording medium and the recording head; and a control circuit arranged to apply electric energy to the motor in starting the motor either in a first mode in which the electric energy is limited to a first value or in a second mode in which the electric energy is limited to a second value which is lower than the first value. Also disclosed is a motor control circuit which is highly suited to the recording apparatus. Detecting apparatus is also included to detect whether the power source is an A.C. adapter or a battery.

Abstract: An exposure control device having exposure control means arranged to vary a charging method thereof according to the selection of a continuous shooting mode or a non-continuous shooting mode. With the exposure control means including at least a shutter, the shutter is arranged to be moved to a less degree in the continuous shooting mode than in the non-continuous shooting mode. After completion of continuous shooting, the shutter moving degree is changed to a degree to which the shutter is to be moved in the non-continuous shooting mode.

Abstract: A tracking device is disclosed. When a target track is indicated by indicating means, the head is shifted toward the target track. During this time, prior to the detecting the signal for a position of the target track, the signals for the adjacent positions to the position of the target track on either side are detected, and, after that, the signal for the position of the target track is detected. Based on the outputs of these positions, discriminating means determines the position to which the head is tracked relative to the recording medium.

Abstract: A recording and/or reproducing apparatus arranged to permit an interchange of record bearing media and selection between recording and reproducing modes of operation on the medium comprises look-up device for looking up the presence or absence of an existing record in each recording or reproducing position on the record bearing medium loaded on the apparatus, and control device arranged to control the look-up device to cause it to perform a look-up action in response to opening of a lid for replacement of the record bearing medium and to cut off the power supply upon completion of the look-up action. The control unit thus lowers electric energy consumption and saves electric energy from being wasted by the look-up action.

Abstract: An electronic imaging apparatus in which an exposure is controlled by using that output of an image pickup element which is obtained with exposure adjusting means in a corresponding position to the output of a photosensitive element solely used for light measurement, being characterized by including a control circuit for changing the reading-out speed over between a prescribed portion of the image sensing area to be used for the exposure control and the other portion than that prescribed portion, wherein the size and location of the aforesaid prescribed portion is made changeable by an adjusting member accessible from the outside of the apparatus.

Abstract: A speed control device for controlling the speed of an electric motor for rotating a recording medium by a feedback control system including a proportion term proportional to information on a deviation of the speed of the motor from a speed set value and an integration term obtained by integrating the information of the deviation with respect to time. The value of the difference between a stationary term obtained when the head is loaded on the recording medium and a stationary term obtained when the head is unloaded is previously memorized about each of head load positions. Depending on the head load position, the memorized corresponding stationary term is supplied to the feedback control system, whereby the speed of the motor is maintained constant despite a change in the load.

Abstract: In a colorimetric sensor having a plurality of color sensors each of which is composed of a photo-electric conversion element for converting light into an electrical signal and a color filter added to the photo-electric conversion element for transmitting light of a specific wave length region, each of the color sensors is composed of a plurality of polygonally split pieces radially extending and spreading from a central part of the colorimetric sensor. A color sensor of a relatively low sensitivity has a greater number of split pieces than others. Among these color sensors, a color sensor having the lowest sensitivity has its split pieces either partially or totally disposed in a position covering two sides of an angular corner part of the colorimetric sensor.

Abstract: A recording apparatus capable of exchanging the recording medium includes a switch arranged to operate when the recording medium is exchanged, an electronic memory for storing the output of the switch in the electrical form, and a backup battery for supplying electrical power to the memory. Despite that the main electrical power source is cut off, the memory retains the storage of the fact of whether or not an event of exchanging the recording medium has ever occurred. After the position of the recording head has been re-adjusted, the memory is erased easily and quickly.

Abstract: A rotation drive device for driving a rotator is disclosed, comprising an electric motor for driving the rotator, a phase detecting circuit for detecting the phase of rotation of the rotator, a reference signal source for forming a reference signal of a constant period, a phase control circuit for controlling the motor in such a manner that the phase difference between the output of the reference signal source and the output of the phase detecting circuit becomes a constant value, a detecting circuit for detecting a fact that the reading-out of the phase difference is not completed in the time interval between the successive two outputs of the phase detecting circuit, a control circuit for varying the number of cycles of phase difference computing operation of the phase control circuit depending on the time interval between the successive two outputs of the phase detecting circuit, another detecting circuit for detecting a fact that the phase detecting circuit has produced no output in one period of the refer

Abstract: The invention provides a novel color image display apparatus having a constitution in which a frame memory is provided between a color palette and CRT display, and the frame memory stores color image data restored by the color palette before displaying color image data on the display screen. This constitution allows the apparatus to easily composite and display image information using a variety of palette data. The apparatus is also provided with a plurality of color palettes and image-composition means which composites color images restored by a plurality of color palettes, thus making it possible for the color image display apparatus to securely compose finer color images featuring improved flexibility.

Abstract: A pair of bus controllers are connected to a common bus and operated by high speed video digitizing timing signals for passing, in real time, the digitized data from incoming digitizing circuitry to output circuitry which converts the digitized data into video signals. A memory is connected by another bus to a computer, and a bus interface or selective dual ports of the memory selectively connect the memory to the common digital data bus so that digitized signals are written to and read from the memory in real time in accordance with the high speed timing signals and corresponding address signals.

Abstract: An image sensing apparatus wherein a memory is arranged to store the whole of data representing the positions of all defects existing in an image sensor. A cyclic register is arranged to received from the memory and temporarily store the data representing the positions of a plurality of defects. A comparator compares the scanning position of the image sensor with the defect position data stored by the register, and a correction circuit corrects the output of the image sensor according to the output of the comparator.

Abstract: Control device for controlling the driving motion of an exposure member, such as a diaphragm or shutter, so as to variably control the aperture opening thereof, wherein a particular value for the diaphragm or shutter is determined and the diaphragm or shutter is set to the determined value, and if the determined value is detected by a detector while the diaphragm or shutter is in the initial state, the diaphragm or shutter is initially driven in the opening or closing direction.

Abstract: A rotary body drive device for controlling rotation of a motor on the basis of the phase difference between a periodic signal produced in accompaniment with rotation of the motor and a reference clock signal so that their phase relationship becomes a prescribed one. When the phase difference between both signals detected in a certain state is largely different from that detected in the preceding time, a correction is given to the phase difference of both signals detected in the aforesaid certain state, so that the rotation of said motor is controlled in accordance with the corrected phase difference.

Abstract: Disclosed is a graphics display device comprising a graphics control board provided between a computer for outputting an output command of a picture image (hereinafter referred to as an image-depiction command) to be displayed on a display device such as a cathode ray tube (CRT) and said display device to process the image-depiction command from the computer by signal conversion processing and to control a display output when the display device displays a picture image, the graphics control board being divided into two boards of a signal conversion board provided within a housing case in which the computer is installed to process the image-depiction command from the computer by signal conversion processing and a display output board for controlling a supply of an output required to display the picture image by the display device on the basis of the image-depiction command.

Abstract: A recording and/or reproducing apparatus in which a head is driven along a disk while the disc is rotated. A rotation speed control and a rotation phase control are provided to control the disc rotation. The apparatus is operated in a phase control mode until the phase of the disc rotation deviates from a reference phase by a predetermined amount. Then the apparatus switches to speed control. A memory is used to store data concerning start up information to reduce the required amount of start up time required in future operations.

Abstract: A vibration-damping material with excellent workability consisting of two metal plates and a vibration-damping layer of a thermoplastic resin interposed between the two metal plates, in which the vibration-damping layer of a thermoplastic resin consists of a film as a middle layer and a polyolefin type resin (B) provided on both sides of the film as an upper and lower layer, the film as the middle layer being composed of (1) at least one resin (A) selected from the group consisting of polyolefin type resins and ionomer resins each having a modulus of elasticity in shear at 20.degree. C. of 3.times.10.sup.9 to 1.times.10.sup.7 dyne/cm.sup.2, a percentage of elongation at 20.degree. C. of 50% or above and a peak temperature of dissipation factor (tan .delta.) of -120.degree. C. to 80.degree. C. or (2) a resin mixture of the resin (A) and a synthetic rubber having a percentage of elongation at 20.degree. C. of 100% or above and a peak temperature of dissipation factor (tan .delta.) of -120.degree. to 50.degree.