Digital video data recording apparatus
First Claim
1. Digitized video data recording apparatus comprising:
- a tape guide drum about the periphery of which a magnetic tape is transported at a predetermined wrap angle;
a plurality of rotary magnetic heads associated with said guide drum for scanning respective parallel slant tracks on said magnetic tape;
means for providing a digitized video signal comprised of horizontal scanning intervals;
signal processing means for arranging the digitized video data of each horizontal scanning interval into a number of data blocks, which number is twice the number of said heads; and
signal distributing means for distributing two blocks of the digitized video data to each of said heads.
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Abstract
A digitized video data recording and/or reproducing system comprises a plurality of rotary magnetic heads are disposed on a rotary tape guide drum on the periphery of which a magnetic tape is helically transported at a predetermined wrap angle. A signal processing circuit divides a digitized video signal such that each horizontal scan interval thereof contains a plurality of data blocks, and a signal distributing circuit distributes the blocks of the digitized video data sequentially to the magnetic heads, so that every nth block of each horizontal scan interval is distributed to a respective one of the heads, where n is an even integer. Preferably, there are eight blocks in each horizontal scan interval, and every fourth block is distributed to a respective head.
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11 Claims
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1. Digitized video data recording apparatus comprising:
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a tape guide drum about the periphery of which a magnetic tape is transported at a predetermined wrap angle; a plurality of rotary magnetic heads associated with said guide drum for scanning respective parallel slant tracks on said magnetic tape; means for providing a digitized video signal comprised of horizontal scanning intervals; signal processing means for arranging the digitized video data of each horizontal scanning interval into a number of data blocks, which number is twice the number of said heads; and signal distributing means for distributing two blocks of the digitized video data to each of said heads. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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