Patent ID: 7373077

Claim:
A digital video apparatus which digitally 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 rotary head A and a rotary head B arranged facing each other at 180 degrees, comprising: a detecting means for detecting a track skip at the time of high speed reproduction, the detecting means determining a track skip occurrence 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; a deleting means for deleting a discontinuity or noise occurring in a digital video signal caused by a track skip when a track skip is detected by deleting a segment of said digital video 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 digital video 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.