Digital video signal recording system and reproducing apparatus

• US 4,520,401 A
• Filed: 04/14/1983
• Issued: 05/28/1985
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/1982
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Victor Company of Japan Limited (JVC Kenwood Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Victor Company of Japan Limited (JVC Kenwood Corporation)
• Inventors: Tanaka, Koji, Amano, Yoshiaki, Suzuki, Fujio, Takahashi, Nobuaki, Sugiyama, Hiroyuki, Kubo, Mitsuo, Kikuchi, Mitsuru, Shibamoto, Takeshi, Takashima, Seiichi
• Primary Examiner(s): McElheny, Jr., Donald
• Application Number:
  US06/485,054
• Time in Patent Office: 775 Days
• Field of Search: 358/310, 358/330, 358/334, 358/342, 360/32
• US Class Current: 386/232
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/20 Disc-shaped record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/7925 for more than one standard
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/804 involving pulse code modulation of the colour picture signal components
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/877 by assembling picture element blocks in an intermediate memory

Abstract

A digital video signal recording system and reproducing apparatus comprise a circuit for independently subjecting a luminance signal and two kinds of color difference signals of a color picture information to digital pulse modulation, to produce a digital luminance signal and two kinds of digital color difference signals, a circuit for dividing the digital luminance signal and the two kinds of digital color difference signals into picture element data groups, in terms of specific number of rows or columns which are adjacent on a screen, and adding a header signal at least comprising a synchronizing signal, a picture mode identification code, and a picture information quantity identification code to a beginning position of each of the divided picture element data groups comprising the digital luminance signal and the two kinds of digital color difference signals, to produce a digital video signal having a signal format in which the digital luminance, the two kinds of digital color difference signals, and the header signal are time-sequentially multiplexed, a circuit for recording the digital video signal onto a recording medium, a circuit for writing each of the divided picture element data groups picked up and reproduced from the recording medium into a memory circuit according to codes within the header signal, and a circuit for producing an analog video signal in accordance with a standard television system from picture element data read out from the memory circuit.

Claims

1. A digital video signal recording system comprising:

first producing means for independently subjecting a luminance signal and two kinds of color difference signals of a color picture information to be recorded to digital pulse modulation, to produce a digital luminance signal and two kinds of digital color difference signals;

second producing means for dividing said digital luminance signal and said two kinds of digital color difference signals into picture element data groups, in terms of specific number of rows or specific number of columns which are adjacent on a screen, and adding a header signal at least comprising a synchronizing signal, a picture mode identification code, and a picture information quantity identification code to a beginning position of each of said divided picture element groups comprising said digital luminance signal and said two kinds of digital color difference signals, to produce a digital video signal having a signal format in which said digital luminance signal, said two kinds of digital color difference signals, and said header signal are time-sequentially multiplexed; and

recording means for recording said digital video signal onto a recording medium.

2. A digital video signal recording system as claimed in claim 1 in which said first producing means comprises first digital pulse modulation means for subjecting the luminance signal to digital pulse modulation at a first sampling frequency such that a product of a number of picture elements in one scanning line of said digital luminance signal and an effective number of scanning lines in one picture of a standard television system is exceedingly close to 2¹⁸ but less than 2¹⁸, and second digital pulse modulation means for independently subjecting the two kinds of color difference signals to digital pulse modulation at a second sampling frequency which is 1/N said first sampling frequency, where N is an integer greater than or equal to two.

3. A digital video signal recording system as claimed in claim 2 in which said standard television system is a television system employing 625 scanning lines.

4. A digital video signal recording system as claimed in claim 3 in which said number of picture elements in one scanning line is 456, and said effective number of scanning line is 572.

5. A digital video signal recording system as claimed in claim 2 in which said second producing means produces said picture element data groups which are successively transmitted in terms of a unit, where said unit comprises a total of six picture element data constituted by four picture element data of said digital luminance signal and one picture element each of said two kinds of digital color difference signals.

6. A digital video signal recording system as claimed in claim 1 in which said second producing means produces said digital video signal with a signal format such that said header signal further comprises a picture category identification code for identifying one category of picture information from among a plurality of mutually different categories of picture information.

7. A digital video signal reproducing apparatus for reproducing signals from a recording medium recorded according to the digital video signal recording system claimed in claim 6, said reproducing apparatus comprising:

reproducing means for reproducing recorded signals from said recording medium on which said digital video signal is recorded;

header signal reproducing circuit for discriminating said header signal within the digital video signal reproduced by said reproducing means, and reproducing said header signal;

two memory circuits into which said digital luminance signal and said two kinds of digital color difference signals within said reproduced digital video signal are written, and from which said digital luminance signal and said two kinds of color difference signals are simultaneously read out;

memory control means for determining whether a value of said picture category identification code detected by said header signal reproducing circuit coincides with an external picture category specifying signal specifying a desired category, to write said divided picture element data groups reproduced in continuous with said header signal comprising said picture category identification code having the value which coincides with said picture category specifying signal into one of said memory circuits, and reading out stored data from said one memory circuit;

a digital-to-analog converting circuit for subjecting said digital luminance signal and said two kinds of color difference signals from said memory circuits to digital-to-analog conversion, and obtaining the luminance signal and the two kinds of color difference signals; and

a circuit supplied with output signals of said digital-to-analog converting circuit, for producing an analog video signal in accordance with a standard television system.

8. A digital video signal recording system as claimed in claim 1 in which said second producing means comprises means for generating a read-out instruction code and a signal transmission termination signal with a timing matched with a picture display of said digital video signal, in continuous with the digital video signal comprising the picture element data groups corresponding to one picture, and adding said read-out instruction code and said signal transmission termination signal to said digital video signal.

9. A digital video signal reproducing apparatus for reproducing signals from a recording medium recorded according to the digital video signal recording system claimed in claim 8, said reproducing apparatus comprising:

reproducing means for reproducing recorded signals from said recording medium on which said digital video signal is recorded;

header signal reproducing circuit for discriminating said header signal within the digital video signal reproduced by said reproducing means, and reproducing said header signal;

two memory circuits into which said digital luminance signal and said two kinds of digital color difference signals within said reproduced digital video signal are written, and from which said digital luminance signal and said two kinds of color difference signals are simultaneously read out;

memory control means for reading out data from one of said memory circuits which is written in with said picture element data corresponding to one picture, when said read-out specifying code detected by said header signal reproducing circuit is reproduced;

switching means for switching with a timing in accordance with a reproduced point of said signal transmission termination signal, to selectively read out from one of said memory circuits in which said digital video signal added with said signal transmission termination signal is stored, and produce said digital video signal added with said signal transmission termination signal;

a digital-to-analog converting circuit for subjecting said digital luminance signal and said two kinds of color difference signals from said switching means to digital-to-analog conversion, and obtaining the luminance signal and the two kinds of color difference signals; and

a circuit supplied with output signals of said digital-to-analog converting circuit, for producing an analog video signal in accordance with a standard television system.

10. A digital video signal reproducing apparatus as claimed in claim 9 in which said memory control means interrupt write-in of said header signal or said signal transmission termination signal upon reproduction of said header signal or said signal transmission termination signal.

11. A digital video signal recording system as claimed in claim 1 in which said second producing means produces said digital video signal with a signal format such that said header signal further comprises a write-in specifying code for specifying which memory circuit within a reproducing apparatus, between a displaying memory circuit reading out picture element data which are being displayed and a non-displaying memory circuit writing in picture element data which are not being displayed, is to be written in with said divided picture element data groups.

12. A digital video signal recording system as claimed in claim 11 in which said second producing means comprises means for producing a first digital video signal comprising picture element data groups corresponding to one picture and a second digital video signal comprising picture element data groups corresponding to a part of one picture so as to display a moving picture in a part of a displayed picture, intermittently transmitting said second digital video signal, and dividing said first digital video signal and transmitting said divided first digital video signal within unused transmission intervals excluding transmission intervals of said second digital video signal.

13. A digital video signal reproducing apparatus for reproducing signals from a recording medium recorded according to the digital video signal recording system claimed in claim 8, said reproducing apparatus comprising:

reproducing means for reproducing recorded signals from said recording medium on which said digital video signal is recorded;

header signal reproducing circuit for discriminating said header signal within the digital video signal reproduced by said reproducing means, and reproducing said header signal;

displaying and non-displaying memory circuits into which said digital luminance signal and said two kinds of digital color difference signals within said reproduced digital video signal are written, and from which said digital luminance signal and said two kinds of color difference signals are simultaneously read out;

memory control means for writing said divided picture element data groups reproduced in continuous with the header signal comprising said write-in specifying code into said displaying memory circuit or said non-displaying memory circuit according to a value of said write-in specifying code detected by said header signal reproducing circuit, and reading out picture element data from said displaying memory circuit;

a digital-to-analog converting circuit for subjecting said digital luminance signal and said two kinds of color difference signals from said displaying memory circuit to digital-to-analog conversion, and obtaining the luminance signal and the two kinds of color difference signals; and

a circuit supplied with output signals of said digital-to-analog converting circuit, for producing an analog video signal in accordance with a standard television system.

14. A digital video signal recording system as claimed in claim 1 in which said second producing means produces said digital video signal with a signal format such that said header signal further comprises a picture transmission identification code for identifying whether said digital luminance signal and said two kinds of color difference signals comprise picture element data groups corresponding to one picture.

15. A digital video signal reproducing apparatus for reproducing signals from a recording medium recorded according to the digital video signal recording system claimed in claim 14, said reproducing apparatus comprising:

reproducing means for reproducing recorded signals from said recording medium on which said digital video signal is recorded;

header signal reproducing circuit for discriminating said header signal within the digital video signal reproduced by said reproducing means, and reproducing said header signal;

two memory circuits into which said digital luminance signal and said two kinds of digital color difference signals within said reproduced digital video signal are written, and from which said digital luminance signal and said two kinds of color difference signals are simultaneously read out;

means for producing a synchronizing signal detection signal even when said synchronizing signal is not detected, with a period with which the synchronizing signal detection signal should originally be produced, when said header signal reproducing circuit detects that said picture transmission identification code identifies the transmission as being a transmission of picture element data groups corresponding to one picture;

memory control means for writing said divided picture element data groups reproduced in continuous with said synchronizing signal detection signal into one of said memory circuits according to said synchronizing signal detection signal, and reading out the written in picture element data from said one displaying memory circuit;

a digital-to-analog converting circuit for subjecting said digital luminance signal and said two kinds of color difference signals from said memory circuits to digital-to-analog conversion, and obtaining the luminance signal and the two kinds of color difference signals; and

a circuit supplied with output signals of said digital-to-analog converting circuit, for producing an analog video signal in accordance with a standard television system.

16. A digital video signal reproducing apparatus as claimed in claim 15 in which said memory control means comprises means for writing said divided picture element data groups into one of said memory circuits when said picture transmission code is not detected, according to a value of a picture transmission identification code detected immediately prior to a point when said picture transmission code is not detected.

17. A digital video signal recording system as claimed in claim 1 in which said second producing means produces said digital video signal with a signal format such that said header signal further comprises address signals for indicating addresses in a memory circuit where said divided picture element data groups are to be written in.

18. A digital video signal reproducing apparatus for reproducing signals from a recording medium recorded according to the digital video signal recording system claimed in claim 17, said reproducing apparatus comprising:

reproducing means for reproducing recorded signals from said recording medium on which said digital video signal is recorded;

header signal reproducing circuit for discriminating said header signal within the digital video signal reproduced by said reproducing means, and reproducing said header signal;

two memory circuits into which said digital luminance signal and said two kinds of digital color difference signals within said reproduced digital video signal are written, and from which said digital luminance signal and said two kinds of color difference signals are simultaneously read out;

memory control means for writing said divided picture element data groups reproduced in continuous with said address signals into one of said memory circuits according to values of said address signals detected by said header signal reproducing circuit, and successively reading out the written in picture element data from said one displaying memory circuit;

a digital-to-analog converting circuit for subjecting said digital luminance signal and said two kinds of color difference signals from said memory circuits to digital-to-analog conversion, and obtaining the luminance signal and the two kinds of color difference signals; and

a circuit supplied with output signals of said digital-to-analog converting circuit, for producing an analog video signal in accordance with a standard television system.

19. A digital video signal reproducing apparatus as claimed in claim 18 in which said memory control means writes a total of six picture element data constituted by four picture element data of said digital luminance signal and one picture element each of said two kinds of digital color difference signals being transmitted into one of said memory circuits at the same address thereof.

20. A digital video signal recording system as claimed in claim 1 in which said header signal comprises same contents which are repeatedly recorded a plurality of times.

21. A digital video signal reproducing apparatus for reproducing signals from a recording medium recorded according to the digital video signal recording system claimed in claim 1, said reproducing apparatus comprising:

reproducing means for reproducing recorded signals from said recording medium on which said digital video signal is recorded;

header signal reproducing circuit for discriminating said header signal within the digital video signal reproduced by said reproducing means, and reproducing said header signal;

two memory circuits into which said digital luminance signal and said two kinds of digital color difference signals within said reproduced digital video signal are written, and from which said digital luminance signal and said two kinds of color difference signals are simultaneously read out;

memory control means for selecting a write-in format with which said digital luminance signal and said two kinds of color difference signals are written into said memory circuits according to values of said picture mode identification code and said picture information quantity identification code detected by said header signal reproducing circuit, to write in said digital luminance signal and said two kinds of digital color difference signals into said memory circuits with the selected write-in format, and reading out stored picture element data from one of said two memory circuits;

a digital-to-analog converting circuit for subjecting said digital luminance signal and said two kinds of color difference signals from said memory circuits to digital-to-analog conversion, and obtaining the luminance signal and the two kinds of color difference signals; and

a circuit supplied with output signals of said digital-to-analog converting circuit, for producing an analog video signal in accordance with a standard television system.

22. A digital video signal reproducing apparatus as claimed in claim 21 in which said header signal reproducing circuit stops the operation to detect the synchronizing signal immediately after said synchronizing signal within said header signal is detected, with respect to an input reproduced signal having a transmission interval corresponding to a specific number of words.