Embedded pilot tracking tone generation for digital VCRs

Author

Hyunchul Shin ; Sunghoon Kwon ; Sunghyuk Park ; Jungho Kim ; Sungpyo Hong, Sungpyo Hong

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Hanyang Univ., Seoul

Volume

42

Issue

3

fYear

1996

fDate

8/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

592

Lastpage

598

Abstract

Pilot tracking tones are used to derive head position reference information in camcorders and DVCRs. A simple pilot tone encoder has been designed by using a new approach called the “calculate-and-correct” method, in which encoding is performed by assuming that all the control bits are 0s and then the results are corrected if necessary. Owing to this method, the hardware size can be significantly reduced while a low clock rate of 41.85 MHz is used. The correctness of the method has been verified by theoretical analysis and by extensive simulation

Keywords

digital magnetic recording; encoding; error correction codes; magnetic heads; position control; signal generators; telecommunication control; tracking; video cameras; video tape recorders; 41.85 MHz; calculate and correct method; camcorders; digital VCR; embedded pilot tracking tone generation; hardware size reduction; head position reference information; low clock rate; pilot tone encoder; simulation; Clocks; Control systems; Design engineering; Frequency; Information analysis; Power measurement; Radio spectrum management; Servomechanisms; Size control; Video recording;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-3063

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/30.536161

Filename

536161