Automatic audio/video signal combination apparatus

• US 5,247,300 A
• Filed: 09/27/1991
• Issued: 09/21/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Goldstar Jewellery LLC
• Original Assignee: Goldstar Jewellery LLC
• Inventors: Sohn, Sung W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Logan, Sharon D.
• Application Number:
  US07/766,226
• Time in Patent Office: 725 Days
• Field of Search: 341/155, 341/141, 341/108, 358/343, 358/341, 370/105.1, 375/106, 375/117, 360/19.1
• US Class Current: 341/155
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/10527 Audio or video recording; Data buffering arrangements G11B20/12 - G11B20/18 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/1208 for continuous data, e.g. digitised analog information signals, pulse code modulated [PCM] data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8063 using time division multiplex of the PCM audio and PCM video signals

Abstract

An audio/video signal combination apparatus for a digital audio tape recorder, is capable of combining 10 bit audio signal with 5 bit video signal by an automatic addressing, comprising analog/digital converters for converting audio signal and video signal into 10 bit and 5 bit digital data, a frame memory for storing digitized video signal by one frame, a digital signal processor for processing the 10 bit audio data and the 5 bit video data to one byte recording signal, and an automatic addressing unit for inputting the 5 bit video data stored in the frame memory to the digital signal processor when the digital signal processor reads the 10 bit audio data.

Claims

1. An audio/video signal combination apparatus, comprising:

a first analog/digital converter for converting an audio signal into audio digital data,

a second analog/digital converter for converting a video signal into video digital data,

a frame memory for storing said video digital data from said second analog/digital converter,

a digital signal processor for receiving said audio digital data form said first analog/digital converter by outputting an input enable signal and processing said video digital data form said frame memory, and

an automatic addressing unit for controlling an output from said frame memory and said second analog/digital converter by synchronizing said video digital data from said frame memory with said audio digital data in response to said input enable signal of said digital signal processor, to produce a synchronized digital signal.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said automatic addressing unit further comprises:

first to third registers, each for storing a video signal outputted from said frame memory,

first to fifth OR gates, each for ORing by bit outputs from said first to third registers,

a latch for inputting outputs of said first to fifth OR gates to said digital signal processing unit,

a 3-to-1 multiplexer for combining an output from a first AND gate which combines an enable signal and an analog/digital conversion clock signal of the second analog/digital converter, with the input enable signal from said digital signal processor by an OR gate, outputting consecutively enable signals of said first to third registers in response to the combined signal, and outputting an overflow signal,

a picture cell counter for increasing a picture cell address of said frame memory in response to the overflow signal of said 3-to-1 multiplexer and being automatically reset when the designation of one horizontal line address is completed,

a horizontal synchronizing counter for counting a horizontal line of the frame memory in response to the output of said picture cell counter,

a horizontal synchronizing multiplexer for outputting the output signal of said horizontal synchronizing counter as the horizontal line address signal of the frame memory, and

an address comparator for resetting the horizontal synchronizing counter and the horizontal synchronizing multiplexer when the counting of the one-frame horizontal line of the frame memory is completed and outputting the second enable signal to the second analog/digital converter.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said digital signal processor is applied with an audio signal of ten bits, a video signal of 5 bits and a control signal of one bit.

4. An audio/video signal combination apparatus, comprising:

analog/digital converting means for converting an audio signal and a video signal into a digital audio signal and a digital video signal; and

synchronizing means for synchronizing the digital audio signal and the digital video signal by reading the digital audio signal and the digital video signal to a magnetic tape in a time divisional manner using automatic addressing, said synchronizing means including,

frame memory means for storing a frame of the digital video data,

automatic addressing means for synchronizing the digital video data stored n said frame memory means with the digital audio data and a control signal, in response to an input enable signal to produce synchronized digital audio/video data, and

digital signal processing means for processing the synchronized digital audio/video data and recording the processed digital audio/video data to the magnetic tape.

5. The audio/video signal combination apparatus of claim 4, said automatic addressing means including,

means for accessing each pixel of the frame of the digital video data stored in said frame memory means,

means for multiplexing a red, green and blue component of each pixel of the frame of the digital video data, and

means for latching the multiplexed digital video data in response to the input enable signal to thereby synchronize the multiplexed digital video with the digital audio data.

6. The audio-video signal combination apparatus of claim 4, wherein a sample of the digital video data, a sample of the digital audio data and the control signal comprise one byte.

7. The audio/video signal combination apparatus of claim 6, wherein when the control signal indicates digital video and audio data, the sample of the digital video signal is 5 bits and the sample of the digital audio signal is 10 bits and when the control signal indicates only digital audio data, the sample of the digital audio data is 15 bits.