Audio signal processing method, audio signal processing apparatus, Hi-Fi video apparatus, digital video apparatus and 8 mm video apparatus

An 8 mm video apparatus which magnetically records and reproduces a video signal and an audio signal by means of a rotary video head and a rotary audio head, the rotary heads respectfully including a pair of rotary heads, A1, A2 and B1, B2 arranged in a double azimuth when an FM modulated analog signal is used, and the rotary heads respectfully including a rotary head A and a rotary head B arranged facing each other at 180 degrees when a Pulse-code Modulation (PCM) audio signal is used, comprising:

• a detecting means for detecting a track skip at the time of high speed reproduction, the detecting means determining a track skip occurrence when it detects a change in rotary heads when an FM modulated analog signal is used and by comparing an ID number of a succeeding track from a head signal with an ID number of a preceding track reproduced immediately before said succeeding track when a PCM audio signal is used;
• a deleting means for deleting a discontinuity or noise occurring in an 8 mm video audio signal caused by a track skip when a track skip is detected by deleting a segment of said 8 mm video audio signal;
• an audio signal generating means for generating an audio signal corresponding to a correct audio signal, a correct audio signal is being deduced by referring to a waveform of the audio signal before and after said deleted segment of said 8 mm video audio signal;
• and
• a signal connecting means for inserting said generated audio signal for said correct audio signal and connecting said inserted audio signal and the audio signal before and after the deleted segment;
• wherein,
• a correlation function for the audio signal before and after said deleted segment is calculated and referred to in order to evaluate the similarity of the audio signal before and after said deleted segment.