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Apparatus for reproducing a digital signal

US4875111A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 19, 1987
Grant dateOct 17, 1989
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Expiry dateAug 19, 2007

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11B2220/913
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In an apparatus for reproducing a digital signal wherein a signal is read by a plurality of reproducing rotary heads which trace a track with an interval narrower than the interval of tracks formed on a tape, a wrap angle with which a tape is wrapped around the periphery of a rotary drum to which the rotary heads are attached is selected to be less than 360.degree./n with respect to the number n (n is an integer) of rotary heads, the rotary heads are rotated at a speed twice the normal rotational speed of the heads, the demodulated digital signal is stored in a memory corresponding to a frame address and a block address detected from the reproduced digital signal, and then the digital signal stored in the memory is read out therefrom in a predetermined order, whereby an apparatus for correcting the tracking of the tape by the rotary heads can be eliminated.

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