Digital signal reproducing apparatus

Claim 1

A digital signal reproducing apparatus comprising: reproducing element means for reproducing from a magnetic tape digital signals which are magnetically recorded on n tracks of the magnetic tape, where n is a natural number greater than one, said magnetic tape having a guard band separating each of two adjacent tracks among the n tracks, said reproducing element means comprising n reproducing element groups provided in corrspondence with the n tracks, each of said n reproducing element groups comprising a plurality of reproducing elements arranged in the tape width direction over a range of a corresponding track and guard bands on both sides thereof; selecting means for selectively obtaining outputs of those reproducing elements opposing a uniform part of the magnetic field intensity distribution of said corresponding track among outputs of the plurality of reproducing elements in each of said n reproducing element groups, said selecting means being provided for each of said n reproducing element groups; adding means for adding outputs of said selecting means and for producing a reproduced signal from each of said n tracks; a parallel-to-serial converter for subjecting the output signal of each of said adding means obtained for each of said n tracks to parallel-to-serial conversion; a plurality of sample and hold circuits supplied with an output signal of said parallel-to-serial converter; a timing signal generating circuit for supplying clock signals, a reference signal and a transfer signal to said parallel-to-serial converter; and a controller having a clock terminal applied with an output clock signal of said timing signal generating circuit and a reset terminal applied with the output signal of said parallel-to-serial converter for successively supplying a sample and hold signal to each of said sample and hold circuits.