Audio signal processing apparatus and recording and/or reproducing apparatus for a tape-shaped recording medium

• US 5,748,397 A
• Filed: 02/14/1997
• Issued: 05/05/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 06/24/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yamada, Eiichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Psitos, Aristotelis M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): WAMSLEY, PATRICK G
• Application Number:
  US08/801,099
• Time in Patent Office: 445 Days
• Field of Search: 360/8, 360/10.1, 360/10.2, 360/27, 360/32, 360/48, 360/70, 360/73.05, 360/77.17, 360/72.3, 360/73.01, 360/73.06, 360/25, 360/51, 386/27, 386/33, 386/34, 386/39, 386/46, 386/91, 386/96, 386/99, 386/101, 386/104
• US Class Current: 360/32
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 15/46 Controlling, regulating, or indicating speed dependent on position of tape in reserve, loop G11B15/56, G11B15/58
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/02 Analogue recording or reproducing
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/10527 Audio or video recording; Data buffering arrangements G11B20/12 - G11B20/18 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/225 for reducing wow or flutter by controlling the speed of the record carrier G11B15/46, G11B19/28
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 5/00813 magnetic tapes

Abstract

A recording and/or reproducing apparatus for a tape-shaped recording medium to record analog audio signals includes a recording and/or reproducing head, a detecting section, and a compensating section. The head records or reproduces analog signals to or from the tape-shaped recording medium. The detecting section detects any fluctuation in the transporting speed of the tape-shaped recording medium with respect to a rated transporting speed. The compensating section modifies, on the basis of detection results from the detecting section, the analog signals, read out from or to be recorded on the tape-shaped recording medium by the head, so as to compensate for the effect of any fluctuation in the transporting speed of the tape-shaped recording medium with respect to the rated transporting speed before outputting these analog signals or supplying them to the head.

Claims

1. A recording and/or reproducing apparatus for a tape-shaped recording medium, the apparatus comprising:

a recording and/or reproducing head for recording and/or reproducing analog signals on and/or from the tape-shaped recording medium;

detecting means for detecting a variation in a transport speed of the tape-shaped recording medium relative to a rated transport speed and generating a cycle fluctuation coefficient; and

compensating means connected to the detecting means and the recording and/or reproducing head for modifying the analog signals read out from or to be recorded on the tape-shaped recording medium by the head based on the cycle fluctuation coefficient from the detecting means so as to compensate for the variation in the transport speed of the tape-shaped recording medium relative to the rated transport speed and outputting compensated analog signals or supplying the compensated analog signals to the head,

wherein the compensating means comprises;

clock pulse generating means;

A/D conversion means connected to the recording and/or reproducing head and the clock pulse generating means for converting the analog signals read from or to be recorded on the tape-shaped recording medium by the head into digital data in response to clock pulses from the clock pulse generating means; and

signal converting means connected to the A/D conversion means and the detecting means for converting the digital data from the A/D conversion means to the compensated analog signals based on the cycle fluctuation coefficient so as to compensate for the variation in the transport speed of the tape-shaped recording medium relative to the rated transport speed, and

wherein the signal converting means comprises;

interpolation means connected to the A/D conversion means and the detecting means for performing interpolation processing on the digital data from the A/D conversion means and outputting interpolated digital signals based on the cycle fluctuation coefficient, whereby the interpolated digital signals represent a digital signal that would be obtained if the tape-shaped recording medium was transported at the rated transport speed; and

D/A conversion means connected to the interpolation means for converting the interpolated digital signals from the interpolation means into the compensated analog signals.

2. A recording and/or reproducing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the detecting means comprises

speed detecting means for detecting the transport speed of the tape-shaped recording medium, and

computation means for computing a ratio of the detected transport speed of the tape-shaped recording medium to the rated transport speed.

3. A recording and/or reproducing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the speed detecting means comprises

a rotary operating section in frictional contact with the tape-shaped recording medium and rotated by the tape-shaped recording medium, and

pulse generating means connected to the rotary operating section for generating pulses having a cycle which varies in accordance with rotation of said rotary operating section by said tape-shaped recording medium.

4. A recording and/or reproducing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the clock pulse generating means generates first clock pulses supplied to the A/D conversion means and second clock pulses supplied to the D/A conversion means, the second clock pulses having the same frequency and phase as the first clock pulses.

7. A recording and/or reproducing apparatus for a tape-shaped recording medium according to claim 1, wherein the interpolation means performs linear interpolation.

5. An audio signal processing apparatus comprising:

input means;

clock pulse generating means;

tape speed detecting means;

A/D conversion means connected to the input means and the clock pulse generating means for converting analog signals input by the input means based on clock pulses from the clock pulse generating means into digital signals;

computation means connected to the A/D conversion means and the tape speed detecting means for computing a fluctuation in a transport speed of a tape-shaped recording medium relative to a rated transport speed based on the detected transport speed of the tape-shaped recording medium detected by the tape speed detecting means and for computing a ratio of the detected transport speed of the tape-shaped recording medium detected by the tape speed detecting means to the rated transport speed; and

signal converting means connected to the computation means for converting the digital signals from the A/D conversion means to compensated analog signals such that the fluctuation in the transport speed relative to the rated transport speed is compensated for based on computation results from the computation means, the signal converting means outputting the compensated analog signals wherein the signal converting means comprises;

interpolation means for performing interpolation on the digital signals from the A/D conversion means based on the ratio from the computation means and outputting interpolated digital signals, the ratio being equal to 1 when the detected transport speed and the rated transport speed are the same; and

D/A conversion means for converting the interpolated digital signals from the interpolation means into the compensated analog signals.

6. An audio signal processing apparatus according to claim 5, wherein said signal converting means comprises D/A conversion means for converting the digital signals from said A/D conversion means, and wherein said clock pulse generating means generates first clock pulses to be supplied to said A/D conversion means and second clock pulses which vary from the first pulses in accordance with the ratio as output from said computation means to be supplied to said D/A conversion means.