Method and apparatus for recording and reproducing a color-aligned line-sequential color video signal
US4233621A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Nov 15, 1978 |
| Grant date | Nov 11, 1980 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 15, 1998 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N9/86
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method and apparatus for recording in successive parallel tracks on a record medium a periodic information signal, such as a video signal having information contained in successive line intervals, a predetermined number of line intervals being included in a field interval and a predetermined number of field intervals being included in a frame interval. Alternate ones of the frame intervals are delayed by a time delay equal to an odd multiple (2n-1) of a line interval. The delayed and undelayed frame intervals are supplied, in sequence, to a recording transducer for recording in successive parallel tracks on the record medium. If the video signal is a SECAM color video signal, then the effect of delaying alternate frame intervals, such as the odd (or even) frame intervals is to align line intervals in adjacent tracks with information representing the same color. Also disclosed are a method and apparatus for reproducing the periodic information signal which had been recorded in the aforementioned manner. These recorded signals are reproduced from the successive parallel tracks to recover the delayed and undelayed frame intervals alternately. The undelayed frame intervals are delaye…
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