Method and apparatus for reproducing a digital video signal
CA 2019080 C · Owner: Sony Corporation · Inventors: Suma, Tetsuro
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Digital video data recorded in D-1 format wherein the, video data is recorded in successive block units with each block unit being comprised of several segments recorded in plural tracks and with each segment including unit identifying data is, recovered by scanning the tracks with plural sets of reproducing heads to reproduce plural segments concurrently from plural tracks. The unit identifying data in the segments reproduced by all of the reproducing heads in the plural sets are sensed to detect when the unit identifying data in those segments includes common unit identification, thus determining that all of the segments of a preceding block unit have been reproduced from the record …
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- Filed June 15, 1990 and granted May 25, 1999. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 15, 2010.
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