Disk speed controller using field memory read/write cycle with adaptive lock

Claim 1

An information record medium playback apparatus comprising: drive means for driving an information record medium with a record signal bearing video information recorded; read means for reading said record signal from said information record medium; demodulation means for demodulating a video signal from the read signal by said read means; sync separation means for separating a sync signal from said demodulated video signal; drive control means for supplying a first phase difference signal between said sync signal and a reference signal with a predetermined frequency to said drive means, said drive control means including means for generating said reference signal and first phase difference detection means for generating said first phase difference signal by comparing phases of said sync signal and said reference signal; signal generation means for generating a write timing signal based on said sync signal; write means for having said demodulated video signal stored in a memory in synchronism with said write timing signal; read timing generation means for generating a read timing signal; read means for reading the demodulated video signal written in said memory in accordance with said read timing signal; field discrimination means for generating a field discrimination signal indicative of the positions on the time base of the odd and even fields of the demodulated video signal written in said memory; read field signal generation means for generating a read field signal indicative of the positions on the time base of the odd and even fields of the demodulated video signal to be read out of said memory in accordance with said read timing signal; and time base adjustment means for performing time base adjustment of said demodulated video signal, said time base adjustment means including second phase difference detection means for detecting a phase difference between said position on the time base indicated by said field discrimination signal and said position on the time base indicated by said read field signal and generating a second phase difference signal, and means, responsive to said second phase difference signal, for accelerating or decelerating a driving speed of said information record medium by said drive means when the phase difference between positions on the time base indicated by said field discrimination signal and said read field signal is not in a predetermined phase difference range, wherein said field discrimination signal has levels respectively corresponding to the periods during which the odd and even fields remain in existence and said read field signal has levels respectively corresponding to the periods during which the odd and even fields remain being read, and wherein said means for accelerating or decelerating driving speed included in said time base adjustment means comprises an adder for superposing said second phase difference signal on said first phase difference signal generated by said first phase difference detection means of said drive control means.