Record address data recording apparatus for use with a VTR or the like
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsEiichi Maeda, Fujiaki Narita
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Abstract
A data insertion device for a recording and reproducing apparatus, which is for example with a video tape recorder (VTR) or the like, which allows one to insert data into a video tape or like recording medium while maintaining the VTR in a playback mode. While sync signals from the VTR are disturbed in the event of insertion of the search data and others, as distinguished from ordinary video data, sync signals provided by sync signal output means which is independent of sync signals provided by the VTR are used as sync signals for the insertion of the search data and others.
Claims8
A data insertion device for video tape recorders comprising:
- an address data input control means;
- sync separator means supplied with a video signal which is reproduced by said video tape recorder (VTR) from the video tape in a play back mode, for separating the sync signals from the video signal;
- video signal generator means for adding the sync signals separated by said sync separator means to the data to be inserted which is supplied from the address data input control means;
- switching means for, while the address data is inserted into the video tape by the record head of the VTR, delivering a video signal outputted from said video signal generator means and, while the address data is not inserted, delivering the reproduced video signal outputted from the VTR;
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- video signal transferring means for transferring the video signal outputted from said switching means to the record head of the VTR.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.