Apparatus for recording video and PCM audio signals with insert editing using axially displaced heads
First Claim
1. Apparatus for recording video and audio signals in a plurality of successive tracks on a recording medium, comprising:
- first audio signal processing means receiving an original audio signal for converting the same to an original encoded digital audio signal;
video signal processing means for providing a video signal;
means for transporting said record medium in a transporting direction;
at least first and second main rotary heads for recording signals supplied thereto in respective ones of said successive tracks on said recording medium;
first switch means for selectively supplying said video signal and a recordable digital audio signal to said main rotary heads;
control means for controlling said first switch means so that said video signal is supplied to said main rotary heads for recording in a main section of each of said tracks and said recordable digital audio signal is supplied to said main rotary heads for recording in an overscan section of each of said tracks;
at least first and second auxiliary rotary heads disposed for reproducing the digital audio signal recorded in respective tracks which are positioned upstream, considered in respect to said transporting direction, relative to tracks to be next scanned by said first and second main rotary heads, respectively;
second audio signal processing means for at least decoding the signals reproduced by said auxiliary rotary heads to a decoded reproduced audio signal;
audio signal inserting means having inputs for receiving a new decoded audio signal and said decoded reproduced audio signal and selectively combining the same to provide a decoded composite audio signal;
third audio signal processing means for encoding said composite audio signal to a new encoded digital audio signal; and
second switch means operable by said control means for supplying a selected one of said new encoded digital audio signal and said original encoded digital audio signal to said first switch means for supplying by the latter as said recordable digital audio signal to said main rotary heads.
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Abstract
An apparatus for recording video and digital audio signals in separate sections of slant tracks on a magnetic tape in the 8 mm format includes two main rotary magnetic heads for recording and reproducing both the video and digital audio signals during normal recording and reproduction modes and two auxiliary rotary magnetic heads for reproducing the digital audio signals during an audio edit mode. The auxiliary rotary heads are disposed for reproducing the digital audio signal recorded in respective tracks which are positioned upstream, considered in respect to the transporting direction of the tape, relative to the tracks to be next scanned by the main rotary heads so that the digital audio signals reproduced by the auxiliary rotary heads may be mixed with new audio signals and rerecorded by the main rotary heads in the same tracks from which they were produced. Consequently, the editing operation may replace all or only a small portion of the digital audio data in each track without disturbing the correspondence between the audio data and corresponding fields of video data.
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13 Claims
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1. Apparatus for recording video and audio signals in a plurality of successive tracks on a recording medium, comprising:
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first audio signal processing means receiving an original audio signal for converting the same to an original encoded digital audio signal; video signal processing means for providing a video signal; means for transporting said record medium in a transporting direction; at least first and second main rotary heads for recording signals supplied thereto in respective ones of said successive tracks on said recording medium; first switch means for selectively supplying said video signal and a recordable digital audio signal to said main rotary heads; control means for controlling said first switch means so that said video signal is supplied to said main rotary heads for recording in a main section of each of said tracks and said recordable digital audio signal is supplied to said main rotary heads for recording in an overscan section of each of said tracks; at least first and second auxiliary rotary heads disposed for reproducing the digital audio signal recorded in respective tracks which are positioned upstream, considered in respect to said transporting direction, relative to tracks to be next scanned by said first and second main rotary heads, respectively; second audio signal processing means for at least decoding the signals reproduced by said auxiliary rotary heads to a decoded reproduced audio signal; audio signal inserting means having inputs for receiving a new decoded audio signal and said decoded reproduced audio signal and selectively combining the same to provide a decoded composite audio signal; third audio signal processing means for encoding said composite audio signal to a new encoded digital audio signal; and second switch means operable by said control means for supplying a selected one of said new encoded digital audio signal and said original encoded digital audio signal to said first switch means for supplying by the latter as said recordable digital audio signal to said main rotary heads. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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