Patent ID: 6847781

Claim:
A digital signal recording apparatus for recording a digital compressed picture signal by using a rotary magnetic head in contact with running magnetic tape, comprising: a picture data extraction circuit for extracting picture data out of an input digital compressed picture signal; a trick-play-data generation means for generating trick-play-data from said picture data; a data disposition circuit for disposing said trick-play data on tracks in position falling in line with a trace of said rotary magnetic head scanning in a trick-play mode; and a storage unit for storing the picture data extracted by said picture data extraction circuit and the trick-play data that is disposed by said data disposition circuit, wherein: said data disposition circuit disposes data for fast forward trick-play on tracks in predetermined fast-forward data recording locations falling in line with a trace of said rotary magnetic head scanning in a fast forward mode and data for rewind trick-play on tracks in predetermined, rewind data recording locations falling in line with a trace of said rotary magnetic head scanning in a rewind mode, and said trick-play-data generation means generates said data for fast forward trick-play and said data for rewind trick-play on the basis of same picture information and different time information.