Digital recording and playback device error correction methods and apparatus for use with trick play data
US5583650A · kind A · utility
Assignees
Inventors
Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 5, 1995 |
| Grant date | Dec 10, 1996 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 5, 2015 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04N9/888
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Methods of operating a digital video recording and playback device, such as a video tape recorder, to arrange trick play data into one or more groups, to generate error correction bits for each group of trick play data, e.g., a group of trick play data blocks, and to correct the data after being read back using the error correction bits is disclosed. The trick play data blocks are made to be smaller than normal play data blocks with multiple trick play data blocks being equal in size to a single normal play data block. By making a group of trick play data blocks equal in size to a single normal play data block, the group of trick play data blocks may be processed as a unit by the same error correction circuitry and in the same manner used to process individual normal play data blocks. In accordance with one embodiment, the error correction bits for a group of trick play data blocks are calculated treating the data in the group of trick play data blocks as a single unit. The error correction bits are appended to the last data block in the group of trick play data blocks. During trick play operation the trick play data blocks are read back and combined according to trick play data gr…
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.