Abstract: A voice signal transmitting/receiving apparatus includes: a device body; a speaker array arranged in the device body and including a plurality of arrayed speaker units; and a microphone array arranged in the device body and including a plurality of arrayed microphones. By thus integrating the speaker array and the microphone array, it is possible to improve the operability of a user, to acquaint the user relatively easily with the error in the set position and to make the device compact.

Abstract: A voice signal transmitting/receiving apparatus includes: a device body; a speaker array arranged in the device body and including a plurality of arrayed speaker units; and a microphone array arranged in the device body and including a plurality of arrayed microphones. By thus integrating the speaker array and the microphone array, it is possible to improve the operability of a user, to acquaint the user relatively easily with the error in the set position and to make the device compact.

Abstract: In an optical recording apparatus having an optical pickup, a rotating section is provided for rotating an optical disk which is formed thereon with a guide groove to define a spiral track having a plurality of rounds. The optical pickup has a light source for generating an optical beam and a diffractive grating for diffracting the optical beam to form a main beam and a pair of sub beams opposite with each other relative to the main beam. The optical pickup is operable for irradiating the main beam to the spiral track with accompanying the pair of the sub beams along apposite sides of the spiral track. A servo section operates the optical pickup to enable the main beam to trace the spiral track based on a tracking error signal derived from return lights of the sub beams reflected back from the optical disk. A recording section modulates the main beam for recording of information onto the spiral track while the optical dick is rotated.

Abstract: In an optical recording apparatus having an optical pickup, a rotating section is provided for rotating an optical disk which is formed thereon with a guide groove to define a spiral track having a plurality of rounds. The optical pickup has a light source for generating an optical beam and a diffractive grating for diffracting the optical beam to form a main beam and a pair of sub beams opposite with each other relative to the main beam. The optical pickup is operable for irradiating the main beam to the spiral track with accompanying the pair of the sub beams along apposite sides of the spiral track. A servo section operates the optical pickup to enable the main beam to trace the spiral track based on a tracking error signal derived from return lights of the sub beams reflected back from the optical disk. A recording section modulates the main beam for recording of information onto the spiral track while the optical dick is rotated.

Abstract: An optical disk recording device for forming a pit on an optical disk by projecting recording laser beam of an amount corresponding to a pit length of the pit to be formed includes a recording speed increase ratio setting section for setting a recording speed increase ratio, a rotation control section for rotating the optical disk at the set recording speed increase ratio, and a laser power control section for controlling laser power of the recording laser beam in a pit period and laser power of the recording laser beam in a bottom period in such a manner that both the laser power in the pit period and the laser power in the bottom period will be increased as the set recording speed increase ratio is increased. When recording is made at a higher recording speed, not only the pit power but also the bottom power of the recording laser beam is increased and, accordingly, difference between the pit power and the bottom power is reduced as compared with a case where the pit power only is increased.

Abstract: A phase shifting device including multipliers, a table and first adders, generates and outputs first shifted phase data and second shifted phase data obtained by shifting first feed phase data and second feed phase data as much as a phase displacement from a rising zero cross point in a last cycle of the first feed phase data to a target position. A counting device counts down upon every rising zero cross point of the first shifted phase data as many as the number of revolutions of a motor up to the target position, and then activates a brake mode at the next falling zero cross point of the first shifted phase data. In the brake mode, a controlling device feed-controls so as to converge at a rising zero cross point of the first shifted phase data after the end of the counting, through a second adder, a limiter, a loop filter, and a third adder.

Abstract: In picking up recorded data from a revolving optical disc by an optical reproduction system in an optical type disc reproduction device and detecting time data of Q subcode from the picked up data for performing operations such as searching a target position, the position control device according to this invention facilitates handling of data in cases such as computing time difference by converting detected present time data from a BCD code into a binary code by a BCD/binary conversion circuit and using the binary coded data. For searching a target position, time difference is detected by a time difference detection circuit on the basis of a difference between the binary coded present time data and target time data and a relative position of the optical reproduction system with respect to the optical disc is changed by a relative position change driver such that the time difference is reduced to zero.

Abstract: A simplified clock-signal reproducing circuit for reproducing a clock signal from a repetitive pulse signal or a digital signal such as an EFM signal read from a compact disc as a data recording medium of the compact disc digital audio system is provided. A voltage-controlled oscillator generates a first repetition signal, and a second repetition signal is formed from the first repetition signal, the second repetition signal being the clock signal. The repetitive pulse signal is latched by a first latch in response to the clock signal, and a signal which is a delayed output of the first latch is latched by a second latch in response to the clock signal. A voltage representing a phase difference between a clock signal in the repetitive pulse signal and the clock signal generated by the voltage-controlled oscillator is generated in accordance with a first phase difference between the input and output signals of the first latch and a second phase difference between input and output signals of the second latch.