Abstract: A recording apparatus for recording an information signal on a record bearing medium comprises recording means for recording the information signal on the record bearing medium, instruction means for producing an instruction to stop a recording operation, stopping means for bringing the recording operation to a stop in response to the instruction of the instruction means, pilot signal generating means for generating pilot signals of frequencies differing from each other in a first generating pattern one after another, control means for controlling the pilot signal generating means to generate the pilot signals in a second generating pattern in response to the instruction of the instruction means, and superimposing means for superimposing upon the information signal the pilot signals generated by the pilot signal generating means.

Abstract: A video signal reproducing apparatus adapted for reproducing a composite signal formed by superimposing four kinds of pilot signals of different frequencies upon a video signal one after another in a predetermined rotation, one upon each portion of the video signal for a predetermined period, from many recording tracks formed with the composite signal at evenly spaced intervals on a recording medium, comprises: (a) a reproducing head tracing the above recording tracks; (b) reference signal generating apparatus capable of selectively generating in the above predetermined rotation, four kinds of reference signals of different frequencies substantially the same as the frequencies of the four kinds of pilot signals; (c) moving apparatus for moving the recording medium in a direction intersecting the recording track; (d) detecting apparatus for detecting the positional error of the reproducing head relative to the recording track by using a reference signal selected from one of the four kinds of reference signals

Abstract: In an apparatus of the kind arranged to reproduce, with a plurality of rotary heads, an information signal from a record bearing medium having many recording tracks which are parallel to each other with the information signal recorded therein and with a plurality of different pilot signals of different frequencies also recorded one by one, one in each of the recording tracks, a plurality of different reference signals of different frequencies are simultaneously generated. A tracking error is detected by using the different reference signals together with the pilot signals which are included in signals reproduced from the plurality of rotary heads.

Abstract: The disclosed information signal recording and/or reproducing apparatus records or reproduces an information signal by shifting two electric-to-mechanical conversion elements which respectively have heads mounted thereon. Each electric-to-mechanical conversion element has a residual displacement characteristic. The shift direction of one conversion element is arranged to be the same as that of the other immediately before switchover from a first mode to a second mode. In the first mode, the difference between voltages impressed on the two elements is relatively large, and, in the second mode, the difference between voltages impressed on the two elements is relatively small.

Abstract: A video signal reproducing apparatus which reproduces a video signal from many evenly spaced recording tracks formed on a recording medium, comprises:a first rotating head;a second rotating head which has a larger width than the first rotating head and which traces the recording tracks alternately with the first rotating head;detecting apparatus for detecting the positional errors of the first and second rotating heads relative to one of the recording tracks by using the outputs of these heads;adjusting apparatus for adjusting, on the basis of the difference in head width between the first and second rotating heads, the output of the detecting apparatus related to the second rotating head;recording medium moving apparatus for moving the recording medium in a direction which intersects the recording tracks; andcontrol apparatus for controlling the moving apparatus on the basis of the output of the detecting means adjusted by the adjusting apparatus.

Abstract: The disclosed information reproducing apparatus includes a transporting portion for moving a tape-shaped recording medium at one of at least two different speeds, a reproducing head for reproducing the information on the recording medium as it is moved by the transporting portion, and a detecting portion for detecting whether or not the speed of movement of the recording medium during reproduction is coincident with that of the recording medium during recording of the information.

Abstract: The disclosed video signal reproducing apparatus reproduces a video signal from a recording medium having adjacent tracks which carry recordings of video signals and recordings of pilot signals with different frequencies superposed on the video signal. A reproducing head traces each of the tracks for reproducing a video signal. A signal processing arrangement obtains a tracking control signal in accordance with the pilot signals obtained from the reproducing head. A compensator compensates for the effect of the tracking control signal on the basis of the frequency characteristic of the reproducing head in the frequency band of the pilot signals.

Abstract: A video signal reproducing apparatus which is arranged to reproduce a composite signal formed by superimposing plural kinds of pilot signals of different frequencies upon a video signal one after another from recording tracks formed by the composite signal on a recording medium comprises: a plurality of reproducing heads arranged to trace the recording tracks one after another on the recording medium; a switch-over device for producing the outputs of the plurality of reproducing heads by switching them over from one to another; a reference signal generating device for producing plural kinds of reference signals of different frequencies which are substantially the same as those of the pilot signals; selecting device for selectively producing one of the plural kinds of reference signals generated by the reference signal generating means; a detecting device for detecting the positional errors of the reproducing heads relative to the recording tracks by using the reference signal obtained from the selecting means