This paper describes a depth recording technique for commercial VTR in which the digital audio signal and the video signal are recorded on the depth-multiplexed layer of a magnetic tape. Digital audio signals with a data rate of 2.6Mbps were recorded with video signals. To avoid crosstalk, a digital modulation method has been studied which gives less low-frequency components. The 0-QDPSK method was most suitable to magnetic recording. A data error rate of less than 10-4 was obtained and interference was eliminated.
In an optical Fourier transforming system, the phase correlation of transmitted light from periodical slits as an input pattern is considered, and a method of optical addition and subtraction is proposed. Applying this method to distance calculation between input and standard vectors in vector quantization that is effective in bandwidth compression of speech signals is considered. Fundamental experiments on optical subtration are done, and a possibility of calculation is shown.
A method to prescribe bit-rate for adaptive run-length DCT coding is described. To make the coded bit-rate within the prescribed quantity, the quantization step width of DCT coefficient is determined from the total bit-rate estimated from prescanned data of selected pixels. The bit-rate estimate is quickly obtained by simple addition and subtraction. The variation of the quantization step width over an image to be coded was kept small to make the image quality uniform The final bit-rate lies within 0--4.0% of the prescribed value.