Abstract:
An improved digital optical compact disc (12) incorporates a further information storage element or area for storage and retrieval for track play selection information. The further storage area is comprised of defined information containing regions whose shading or alteration by the user indicates whether a corresponding track is to be skipped or played. An improved compact disc player reads the information containing defined regions (16) and is capable of automatically selecting particular tracks for play. The information contained in defined regions (16) is stored in a format which is at once visually-recognizable, machine-readable and manually-alterable.
Abstract:
The object of the present invention is to facilitate the production of master tapes in studios for producing audio and/or video information carriers thereform, by reducing the time and increasing the quality of producing the master tapes. The blank tapes are made first by making a tape web (21) including a support layer and a sensitive layer, winding the tape web (21) on a winding roller (22), unwinding the tape web (21) and cutting it into large diameter tape coils (26) by a cutter (25) and then separating each tape coil (26) by a cutter (27) into individual tapes (27) which are inserted in cassettes. The tape (1, 6, 12) is coded with codes (4, 5, 10, 11, 14, 15) directly during the process of its making, either during the winding on the winding roller (22), or during its unwinding and before cutting by the cutter (25), or before separating by the cutter (27).
Abstract:
In order to reach exactly a particular place on the audio disc during a search run with contactless scanning, the scanning speed is determined from the speed of rotation of the disc. Preferably, this occurs at the beginning of the first piece. The information concerning the speed of rotation of the disc is determined from the radial error signal.
Abstract:
An optical disk (100) includes a label region (106) having writable material. Disk speed features (112) are located in a manner which allows them to be readable when writing to the label region (106).
Abstract:
Tape reading system wherein the tape (50) in a tape cassette (10) has color marks (133 a, b, c) on the tape (50) to be read by an optical system, part of which is in the cassette (10) and another part of which is in the tape drive (51, 18, 61, 63, 65). The part in the cassette (10) consists of an optical element (51) having mutually isolated light transmission paths. The paths carry light reflected from or transmitted through different portions of the width of the magnetic tape (50). The light is directed to optical sensors (63, 65) which are part of the tape drive (51, 18, 61, 63, 65). A lamp (61), also part of the drive (51, 18, 61, 63, 65), illuminates the tape (50) so that light shining on the tape (50) will contrast with the color marks (153, a, b, c). Changes in contrast due to the color marks (153, a, b, c), transmitted through the optical element (51), are detected by optical sensors (63, 65) and converted to electrically readable signals. A feedback circuit (144, 146, 148, 150, 156, 158, 162, 164, 166, 168) connected to the lamp (61) and to the sensors (63, 65) provides electrical feedback to the lamp (61). The level of illumination detected by the optical sensors (63, 65) is kept constant relative to slow background contrast changes, although a low pass filter (156, 158) prevents the feedback circuit (144, 146, 148, 150, 156, 158, 162, 164, 166, 168) from responding to light signals representing the color marks (153, a, b, c).
Abstract:
To print on a magnetic tape (2) time marks magnetically recorded on one track of the tape, this tape is moved past a magnetic head (7) by means of a capstan (10). At the output of the capstan, the tape goes through a printer (19). The signals read by the magnetic head are worked out and decoded by an electric device (31). The decoded signals are input in the printer for the control of the printing characters. The length or portion of the run of the magnetic tape, passing through the printer, is delimited by a compensation roller (14) and a pressure roller (16) which subject the tape to a direction change of 180` thereby creating a compensation loop and a standby loop. The compensation roller has a reciprocating motion in the direction of said portion and in the opposite direction. During the printing process, the compensation roller is moved with a uniform speed, half of the travelling speed of the tape driven by the capstan, in the direction opposite to that of said portion, which causes a temporary stop of the tape and thereby an increase of the compensation loop and a decrease of the standby loop. The compensation roller is arranged at the extremity of a lever of which the other extremity engages an excentric-sheave driven temporarily in synchronism with the capstan. A lifting electromagnet, reacting to the control signals generated by the electronic device, achieves a fixed coupling in rotation between the excentric-sheave and the driving axis of the capstan during the printing process.
Abstract:
The invention provides a method of forming an optical disc having at least: forming a first lamination body having a first substrate, an information recording layer or pits, and the first reflection layer; forming a second lamination body having a second substrate, an image-recording layer that is capable of undergoing recording of a visible image by irradiation of laser light, and a second reflection layer having a thickness of 40 to 100 nm; and adhering the first lamination body and the second lamination body so that the first reflection layer provided on the first lamination body and the second reflection layer provided on the second lamination body are faced toward each other across an adhesive layer. The adhering includes hardening a radiation-curing resin so as to form the adhesive layer. Further, the hardening includes irradiating the radiation-curing resin with radiation ray from the side of the second substrate.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method for selectively positioning a read/write head (14) adjacent a record medium (10) on which optical guidelines (20) have been recorded for magnetically reading or writing data on one of a plurality of data tracks thereon. Each data track is associated with one of the optical guidelines (20) and may include an identification optically coded therein. The apparatus includes a light source (26) for illuminating the record medium (10) adjacent the read/write head (14), and a light detector system (28) for detecting light reflected (46) from one of the optical guidelines (20). A servo mechanism (60) adjusts the position of the read/write head (14) responsive to reflected light (46) detected by the light detector system (28). Since the track information is recorded optically on the record medium (10), this allows for optical sensing which is most accurate and does not interfere with the magnetic reading/writing function of the head (14), and the medium is capable of carrying more magnetically recorded data information than conventional media of the same size.
Abstract:
A reference pattern (300, 700) on the non-data side (or label side) (146) of an optical data storage disc (126) enables optical disc devices (102) to register a position of a laser (118, 308) to an absolute radial location on the disc's non-data side (146). The absolute radial location serves as a reference track to which that all radial positioning can be referenced.