Video taperecorder with television standards converter

Details Video taperecorder with television standards converter Video taperecorder with television standards converter

1994-06-20

1997-07-15

Tran, Thai Q.

Motion video signal processing for recording or reproducing

Local trick play processing

With randomly accessible medium

386 46, H04N 591, H04N 701

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056490488

ABSTRACT:
A video tape recorder is provided which is capable of handling plural television standards. The tape recorder includes a video signal processing unit for recording and reproducing video signals selectively in plural television standards, a television standards converter for performing a conversion operation by converting a video signal in a first one of the television standards into a video signal of a second one of the television standards, and a convert control unit for controlling the conversion operation of the television standards converter to operate in (1) a recording mode to convert an input video signal in a first one of the television standards into a second one of the television standards and to provide the converted input video signal to the processing unit for recording and (2) a reproducing mode to convert a reproduced video signal, received from the processing unit, in a first one of the television standards into a second one of the television standards and to output the converted reproduced video signal.

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