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Recording/playback apparatus for digital video cassette recorder

US5897219A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 2, 1996
Grant dateApr 27, 1999
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Expiry dateOct 2, 2016

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11B2220/90
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A recording and playback apparatus for a digital video cassette recorder is provided with a data conversion unit for recording a compressed video signal in a more compressed format on a digital recording medium and a data inverse recording unit for playing out the recorded video signal. The data conversion unit includes a controller, encoder and multiplexer. The controller has for its inputs ID information decoded from the compressed video data signal by a decoder and a recording signal instructing the recording of the compressed video signal on a recording medium. At the start of picture recording the controller provides a selection signal to a multiplexer and a decoding instruction to an encoder to enable the encoder to recode the entire picture region of the decoded video data in an intraframe manner with a header which contains the decoding instruction information. The data inverse conversion unit includes a header decoder, a buffer controller, and a buffer. The buffer controller has as inputs the decoded instruction information output from the header decoder and a playback signal instructing the playback of compressed video data from the digital recording medium. Thus, both in…

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