摘要:
A compatible data transfer apparatus for use with first and second tape assemblies such as multitrack digital magnetic tape cassettes on which data are recorded with different formats or with different densities. Typically, in order to discriminate between the two types of tape assemblies, a beginning-of-tape (BOT) sensor is utilized which optically detects a BOT hole usually formed in this kind of tape cassette. The two types of tape assemblies have their BOT holes formed at different distances from optically detectable starting position of the tape such as the boundary between the transport leader tape section and the opaque data storage section. The BOT sensor may be connected to a programmed microcomputer or to a devoted identification circuit whereby the loaded tape assembly is identified as the first or second type depending upon the distance of the BOT hole from the starting tape position. A tape select switch is automatically actuated for connecting the transducer to a reproduction circuit to either of two reproduction circuits provided for the two types of tape assemblies.
摘要:
An apparatus for reproducing information signals recorded with a plurality of pilot signals having different frequencies on a tape-like recording medium, in which a tracking error signal is formed by using the pilot signals reproduced by the head for reproducing the information signals, and pulse signals generated in correspondence to the moving action of the recording medium during a period of variation in level of the tracking error signals are counted to discriminate whether the recording speed of the information signals and the moving speed of the recording medium are coincident or not.
摘要:
In a helical scanning type VTR utilizing a tracking error signal method using four kinds of pilot signals, a tape speed at recording is detected by comparing a threshold level value with the level difference between the outputs before and after the change in the two kinds reference signals which are supplied to a multiplying circuit within one magnetic head scanning period, the multiplying circuit obtaining sum and difference frequency signals between a reproduced pilot signal and the reference signal.
摘要:
An auto-tracking apparatus of a magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus has a circuit for discriminating whether the audio signals recorded on a magnetic tape to be reproduced were recorded by audio rotary heads or a fixed head, and a circuit for selecting outputs of the audio rotary heads in the case of the Hi-Fi recorded magnetic tape by the audio rotary heads and outputs of the video rotary heads in the case where it is determined that the magnetic tape is the normal recorded tape by the fixed head on the basis of the result of the discrimination, and performs the auto-tracking on the basis of the selected outputs. With this arrangement, the auto-tracking can be carried out irrespective of whether the magnetic tape is the normal recorded tape by the conventional fixed head or the Hi-Fi recorded tape by the rotary heads.
摘要:
A music search device for a tape containing a number of pieces of music. If the search begins within a fixed period since the beginning of the currently played piece, the tape jumps back to the beginning of the preceding piece. If the search begins after the fixed period, the tape jumps back to the beginning of the current piece.
摘要:
A magnetic-optical disc memory system wherein header information items which include sector marks indicating initial positions of sectors, track Nos., and sector Nos. are previously provided on a magnetic-optical disc in the form of embossed pits and wherein data information items are written in the form of magnetic signals in data areas other than the header areas. Photodetectors detect the header information and the data. The operation of switching outputs from the photodetectors is controlled in accordance with a timing based on the point of time at which a sector mark signal has been detected from the output of the photodetector which detects the header area.
摘要:
A lock mechanism for locking a head plate and fast-forwarding and rewinding levers of a tape player comprises step-shaped engage portions formed along side margins of the fast-forwarding and rewinding levers near their one end, a lever lock member pivotally mounted near these ends of the levers for releasable locking engagement with the step-shaped engage portions, and a compression portion formed along a margin of the head plate which unlocks the locking engagement between the lever lock member and step-shaped engage portion when the head plate withdraws concurrently with deenergization of a plunger upon detection of a non-signal portion between pieces of music on a tape.
摘要:
An apparatus for reproducing signals recorded on a recording medium with a plurality of rotary heads is arranged to discriminate a medium moving speed employed for recording by comparing signals simultaneously reproduced by these rotary heads.
摘要:
In a cue recording system for a tape recorder, an audio signal is recorded by a first recording section on a first track of a tape. In a second recording section, a cue signal is superposed on the audio signal. The composite signal formed of the audio and cue signals is then recorded on the second track of the tape. In the playback mode, the audio signal and the cue signal recorded on the second track are separated by a filter. When the separated second-track audio signal is mixed with a first-track reproduced output, the resultant audio signal has substantially the same low-frequency response characteristic as a stereo head system, and a same S/N ratio as the monaural head system. An insufficient low-frequency response of the second track is compensated by the flat frequency response of the first track. Degradation of the S/N ratio of the signal of the first track can be improved by the mid or higher frequency component of the audio signal of the second track.
摘要:
A magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus using a pilot signal control system is adapted such that a cue signal (51) is recorded in a cue track (50) provided besides a video signal track (52) when a magnetic tape (7) is temporarily stopped during the recording operation and is moved in the backward direction by a predetermined amount, and when the temporary stop is cancelled and the magnetic tape is moved in the forward direction, the cue signal (51) is reproduced and the recording operation is restarted responsive to the reproduced cue signal. Preferably, after cancellation of the temporary stop until restart of the recording operation, control is made such that coincidence of the frequency and phase of the reproduced pilot signal and those of a pilot signal to be recorded is established.