Abstract:
An optical playback system for reading video discs with a laser beam has a radial servo including an arrangement for developing a correction signal representing the sense and extent of deviations of the reading beam from proper tracking relation to the storage track of the video disc. A driver responds to the correction signal and actuates a beam deflection mirror, displacing it in the proper sense and direction with respect to a reference position to maintain proper beam tracking. When stop frame operation is desired, a clamp is actuated once every revolution of the disc to supersede the correction signal and restore the beam deflecting mirror to its reference position as required to cause the beam to repeat its scan of a given convolution of the record track.
Abstract:
An encoding and decoding system for color television signals wherein three color-difference signals representative of the color of a scene and a luminance signal representative of the brightness of the scene are symmetrically encoded as three-line sequential signals with relative amplitudes such that when the three sequential signals are matrixed in equal proportions a luminance signal is formed representative of the average luminance level of the picture over the preceding three lines. The symmetrical encoding of the color-difference signals eliminates the need for line identification and phase locking between the encoder and decoder switches, thereby resulting in substantial simplification.