Patent ID: 6038095
Filing Date: 2000-03-14
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
A signal reproducing apparatus comprising:a plurality of reproducing means including a plurality of head means adjacent to each other for simultaneously reproducing plural channels of video signals prerecorded on separate respective plural tracks on a recording medium;a plurality of amplitude level detection means for detecting amplitude levels of at least two of said video signals from said plurality of reproducing means to produce output signals;means for producing a unified amplitude signal from said output signals;audio detection signal generating means for producing an audio detection signal upon detecting a presence of a predetermined amplitude level of said video signals and for reproducing a prerecorded audio signal on a track separated from said prerecorded video tracks; andoperation means for generating a tracking control signal from said unified amplitude signal and from said audio detection signal with said operation means providing maximum, first and second values of said unified amplitude signal, with both of said first and second values being lower than said maximum value by a predetermined amount and with said first and second values corresponding to generated first and second levels of said tracking control signal and with the generated level of said tracking control signal being determined by said operation means by calculating a mean value of said first and second levels of said tracking control signal.