Video playback apparatus and method
AssigneeLite-On It Corporation
InventorsHsin-Jung Chuang, Yu-Hung Sun
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Abstract
A video playback apparatus includes a magnetic head, a transmission device and a memorizing device. The magnetic head is in contact with and rotates on a tape of a magnetic videotape to read data to be shown on a display in a reading procedure, and is separate from the tape of the magnetic videotape in a pause state. The transmission device engages with the tape of the magnetic videotape for guiding the tape to be in contact with or separate from the magnetic head, and transmits the tape to pass the magnetic head in the reading procedure. The memorizing device memorizes and outputs the latest frame data to the display in the pause state.
Claims20
A video playback apparatus, comprising:
- a first video player sequentially generating first video signals to be shown on a display in response to a series of data read from a magnetic videotape in a reading procedure;
- and
- a memorizing device coupled to said first video player for memorizing and outputting the latest one of said first video signals to the display in a pause state.
A video playback apparatus, comprising:
- a magnetic head being in contact with and rotating on a tape of a magnetic videotape to read data to be shown on a display in a reading procedure, and being separate from the tape of the magnetic videotape in a pause state;
- a transmission device engaging with the tape of the magnetic videotape for guiding the tape to be in contact with or separate from said magnetic head, and transmitting the tape to pass said magnetic head in said reading procedure;
- and
- a memorizing device for memorizing and outputting the latest frame data to the display in said pause state.
A video playback method, comprising steps of:
- transmitting a tape of a magnetic videotape to move and rotating a magnetic head of a video playback apparatus on the moving tape to read data from the tape when the video playback apparatus is in a reading procedure;
- separating the magnetic head from the tape when the video playback apparatus enters a pause state;
- memorizing the latest data read from the tape before the video playback apparatus enters a pause state;
- showing updated data generated by the magnetic head on the display when the video playback apparatus is in said reading procedure;
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- showing said memorized data on the display when the video playback apparatus is in said pause state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.