Dynamic information storage or retrieval – Condition indicating – monitoring – or testing – Including radiation storage or retrieval
Patent
1982-09-30
1992-06-30
Levy, Stuart S.
Dynamic information storage or retrieval
Condition indicating, monitoring, or testing
Including radiation storage or retrieval
369 53, 324 731, G11B 2730, G11B 2736
Patent
active
051269902
ABSTRACT:
Method for evaluating the quality of audio and/or video transfer characteristics of a device upon which, or through which, audio and/or video information is contained, or passes, respectively. The method concerns the evaluation of the quality of information transfer in the recording and playback of a recording medium or in the transferring of audio and/or video information through an information handling device referred to as a throughput device. Unit evaluation includes establishing an input signal of known content, measuring selected parameters of selected parts of the input signal, feeding the input signal to the unit under test, measuring the parameters of parts of the output signal from the unit corresponding to the same selected parts of the input signal, and comparing the selected parameters of the input signal with the corresponding parameters of the output signal. Whether monitoring the quality of the signal transfer characteristics of a throughput device, a magnetic tape containing program material, or a video disc, master disc or replica, a "signature" is created for the unit under test, and subsequent analysis of the unit as it progresses along a production line or of a copy made on the same or alternate recording medium results in a second "signature" which is compared against the first signature to make a determination of the quality of the signal handling or transfer characteristics of the unit. Thus out-of-tolerance conditions are automatically detected, thereby eliminating subjectivity and providing consistency in the quality level of device testing.
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Efron Edward
Kim Young B.
McPherson James O.
Discovision Associates
Levy Stuart S.
Weinhardt Robert A.
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