Digital high definition television video recorder with trick-play features
CA 2115976 C · Owner: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd. · Inventors: Naimpally, Saiprasad V.
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A signal processing system for a high, resolution digital video tape recorder (VTR) includes circuitry which processes the high resolution video signal to produce a relatively low resolution video signal which may be recorded on the tape with the high resolution video signal. The low resolution video signal is encoded using intra-frame techniques and recorded in fixed-length segments which appear at predetermined locations in the tape tracks. Low resolution segments representing images in different frames may be recovered and combined to produce an image which is suitable for display in trick-play modes. During normal play modes the data stream representing the high resolution image is …
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- Filed February 18, 1994 and granted August 6, 2002. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 18, 2014.
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