Abstract:
A reader/writer effective in preventing forgery of data recorded in magnetic cards, wherein an erasing head (1) is provided with a reverse current preventing circuit (3) that permits the head current to flow in only a direction in which a magnetic field for erasing data is generated and that prevents the generation of a magnetic field in the opposite direction. As a result, a reader/writer for magnetic cards can be equipped with an erasing head by which data is not rewritten. Therefore, even in case the reader/writer is stolen, it cannot be used for forging data in magnetic cards. Moreover, provision of the reverse current preventing circuit (3) makes it impossible to rewrite data in magnetic cards even if the circuitry associated with the erasing head is modified, and the safety is improved.
Abstract:
A signal recording apparatus wherein, when an input signal is recorded reciprocatingly on a recording medium (6) in such a manner that, after a recording head (5) and the recording medium (6) have moved relative to each other in one direction (the "first direction"), they move in the opposite direction (the "second direction"), the input signal is delivered to the recording head (5) through a delay element (3), and a signal delay quantity in the relative movement of the recording head (5) and the recording medium (6) in the second direction is set so as to be larger than the signal delay quantity in the movement thereof in the first direction, and the difference between these delay quantities is set so as to be longer than the time required for a movement reversal. Also disclosed is a signal recording and reproducing apparatus which is provided with means for delaying a reproduction signal from a reproducing head when a signal recorded on the recording medium (6) by this signal recording apparatus is reciprocatingly reproduced, and in which a reproduction signal delay quantity before the movement reversal is set so as to be larger than the reproduction signal delay quantity after the movement reversal in order to prevent the omission of any signal during the movement reversal, thereby obtaining temporarily-continuous signals. The signal recording apparatus is also provided with a signal recording apparatus which records a reversal mark in the vicinity of the movement reversal position on the recording medium (6). The signal recording and reproducing apparatus is also able to reciprocatingly record on the recording medium (6) an input signal and an address corresponding to the input signal, and read out, in reproduction in the first direction, both addresses recorded in the first and second directions, and compare the two addresses to determine the position at which the movement is reversed from reproduction in the first direction to reproduction in the second direction.
Abstract:
A data signal reproduction apparatus reproduces a data signal from a recording medium on which a digital data signal, which is processed according to run length limited code modulation, is recorded with a synchronizing signal portion. The apparatus is improved so that erroneous detection of the synchronizing signal is prevented when there is a defective part on the recording surface of the recording medium. The apparatus is arranged so that the supply of a rectangular-wave reproduction signal from a waveform shaping unit (9) to a reproduction signal processing unit (13) is inhibited when the amplitude of a read signal detected by an amplitude detection unit (14 to 17) is lower than a predetermined value, thereby preventing erroneous detection of the synchronizing signal. The apparatus is suitable for the reproduction of a data signal from a digital audio disc.
Abstract:
A PCM signal processing apparatus provides correction processing so that no pulse noise (abnormal sound) is generated by the reproduction of erroneous data (e.g., unerased data) that has not been recognized as an error from an error-detecting code added to the data. The format of the transmission data processed by the apparatus is such that one block of data is constituted by a plurality of PCM data items, and one segment of data is constituted by a plurality of blocks, each block being provided with a data error detecting code (CRC) and a segment address (S-ADR) to which the block belongs. A detection circuit (15) is provided which detects whether or not the segment addresses of reproduced data within each block within one segment are the same. When the detection circuit (15) detects a non-coincidence, an interpolation circuit (13) is actuated in reponse to the detection output and effects some form of correction processing, such as mean value interpolation, higher-order interpolation, or the holding of the previous value.
Abstract:
A data clocking and detection system for a digital data storage system includes a common controlled oscillator (16) for the multiple tracks. A phase detector (18) for each track includes a counter and decoding circuitry producing outputs representing the time occurrence of transitions in the data with respect to bit cells defined by multiple clock pulses for each bit cell. Phase errors are used to control the frequency of the VCO, and large phase errors are used to add or subtract a count from the phase counter in each phase detector.
Abstract:
Dans un disque magnétique pour un système de stockage à disque magnétique, au moins l'une des surfaces du disque est recouverte d'un matériau magnétique, le disque peut être monté sur une broche de manière à tourner par rapport à un transducteur magnétique positionné de manière à permettre l'enregistrement et la lecture de données sur la surface, une pluralité de pistes annulaires concentriques (2, 1, 0, 15) sont définies sur la surface du disque, chacune des pistes étant divisées en une pluralité de secteurs, à chacun desquels sont associées des données préenregistrées servant à leur identification, les données d'identification préenregistrées comprenant un code d'identification de piste, le code d'identification de piste étant un code à distance unitaire. Procédé d'enregistrement du code d'identification de piste à distance unitaire dans lequel le code possède une première transition d'horloge unidirectionnelle (61) à un temps fixe dans chaque cellule de bit et une deuxième transition unidirectionnelle (NN) à un temps variable dans chaque cellule de bit, le temps de la deuxième transition par rapport à la première transition permettant de déterminer si le bit de données est "1" ou "0".
Abstract:
Un procede d'enregistrement et de commande d'informations codees sur une bande magnetique consiste a enregistrer les informations codees a effectuer une reproduction commandee des informations enregistrees pendant les intervalles entre deux impulsions de codage voisines, cette reproduction etant effectuee avec la meme tete magnetique (71/7n) que celle qui est utilisee pour l'enregistrement, et a repeter l'enregistrement et la reproduction commandee des informations enregistrees en cas d'enregistrement defectueux en enregistrant simultanement le moment ou s'effectue l'enregistrement correct a l'aide d'une impulsion de marquage. Une installation d'enregistrement et de commande des informations codees sur la bande magnetique comprend un moyen (1) d'enregistrement de signaux de codage pourvu d'un registre d'enregistrement (3), un circuit (4) de formation de bytes d'adresses binaires, une unite (5) de valves (51/5n) et une unite (6) d'amplificateurs d'enregistrement (61/6n) qui sont connectes aux tetes magnetiques d'enregistrement (71/7n) et aux amplificateurs de reproduction (81/8n), dont les sorties sont connectees a un dispositif (11) de commande des signaux de codage enregistres contenant une unite (10) de valves (101/10n) qui sont connectees par l'intermediaire de circuits de coincidence (121/12n) a un registre intermediaire connecte a un registre de sortie (14). Le dispositif (11) comprend egalement un circuit logique "OU" (15) et un inverseur (16). L'installation comprend en outre un dispositif (24) pour la commande d'enregistrement des signaux de codage et une unite (18) pour l'enregistrement et la reproduction des impulsions de marquage.
Abstract:
Apparatus (12) for delivering recorded messages to a person called on a telephone, for recording responses by the called person on magnetic tape and for moving a magnetic tape to a particular location to deliver a further recorded message, if necessary. The location of a prerecorded vocalization is known to a processor (54) via a digitally recorded tape track parallel to the vocal track. Apparatus (50) is disclosed for recording digital data on an audio tape recorder. Specifically, digital data is accurately recorded on tape by trilevel recording in which a signal being recorded returns to a datum level after each data word is communicated to the recorder. This overcomes tape recorder drift to a high or low binary level at the end of such a data word.