Digital information transferring apparatus capable of identifying the type of device supplied with the transferred information

Claim 2

A digital information signal transferring apparatus for transferring sequential sync blocks, each sync block being of a data structure having an effective area which contains digital information signals which may be of different types, and a synchronous and ID area which contains synchronous, ID and parity information signals, said apparatus comprising: encoding means for encoding an input digital information signal and providing corresponding output data; insertion area forming means for forming, in said output data of said encoding means, an insertion area for said synchronous signal and said ID signal; means for supplying said ID signal which includes format identifying data to identify a type of device that will be supplied with said sync block, data for identifying the type of said digital information signal, and a sync block number; and ID adding means for adding said ID signal in said insertion area.

Claim 3

The digital information signal transferring apparatus as in claim 1, further comprising: quantizing means for quantizing said output data of said encoding means; estimating means for determining a quantizing step of said quantizing means and generating quantizing step data; auxiliary code generating means for generating an auxiliary code in accordance with said information signals; and means for selectively adding said auxiliary code and said quantizing step data to said effective area; whereby the amount of effective area of the sync block may be selectively increased when said auxiliary code and said quantizing step data are omitted.

Claim 4

The digital information signal transferring apparatus as in claim 2, further comprising: variable length code encoding means for encoding an output of said quantizing means with a variable length code; said quantizing step data of said quantizing means being limited for varying an output of said variable length code encoding means to at most a predetermined data amount in a predetermined time period; and framing means for forming said data structure of said sync block with the quantizing step data, the auxiliary code, a DC component of said digital information signal, and the output of the variable length code encoding means.

Claim 5

The digital information signal transferring apparatus as in claim 3, further comprising: packing means for dividing said output of the variable length code encoding means into sync blocks each having a data area of a predetermined number of bytes.

Claim 6

The digital information signal transferring apparatus as in claim 3, further comprising: error correction code encoding means for encoding said data area and said ID signal of each said sync block with an error correction code so as to provide a correction capability for said data area.

Claim 7

The digital information signal transferring apparatus as in claim 4, wherein, in a recording mode of a digital magnetic recording apparatus, said ID adding means is adapted to add a code representing a record format of said digital magnetic recording apparatus to the format identification signal of said ID signal, and said framing means is operative to add said record format representing code to said auxiliary code.

Claim 8

A digital information signal recording apparatus for recording sequential sync blocks, each sync block being of a data structure having an effective area which contains digital information signals which may be of different types, and a synchronous and ID area which contains synchronous, ID and parity information signals, said apparatus comprising: encoding means for encoding an input digital information signal and providing corresponding encoded output data; insertion area forming means for forming, in said encoded output data of said encoding means, an insertion area for said synchronous signal and said ID signal; means for supplying said ID signal which includes format identifying data to identify a type of device that will be supplied with said sync block, data for identifying the type of said digital information signal, and a sync block number; ID adding means for adding said ID signal in said insertion area; and means for recording said encoded output data to which said ID signal has been added.

Claim 9

A digital information signal recording apparatus for recording sequential sync blocks, each sync block being of a data structure having an effective area which contains digital information signals which may be of different types, and a synchronous and ID area which contains synchronous, ID and parity information signals, said apparatus comprising: encoding means for encoding an input digital information signal and providing corresponding encoded output data; insertion area forming means for forming, in said encoded output data of said encoding means, an insertion area for said synchronous signal and said ID signal; means for supplying said ID signal which includes format identifying data to identify a type of device that will be supplied with said sync block, data for identifying the type of said digital information signal, and a sync block number; ID adding means for adding said ID signal in said insertion area; and means for recording said encoded output data to which said ID signal has been added.

Claim 10

The digital information signal recording apparatus as in claim 7, further comprising: quantizing means for quantizing said encoded output data of said encoding means; estimating means for determining a quantizing step of said quantizing means and generating quantizing step data; auxiliary code generating means for generating an auxiliary code in accordance with said information signals; and means for selectively adding said auxiliary code and said quantizing step data to said effective area; whereby the amount of effective area of the sync block may be selectively increased when said auxiliary code and said quantizing step data are omitted.

Claim 11

The digital information signal recording apparatus as in claim 8, further comprising: variable length code encoding means for encoding an output of said quantizing means with a variable length code; said quantizing step data of said quantizing means being limited for varying an output of said variable length code encoding means to at most a predetermined data amount in a predetermined time period; and framing means for forming said data structure of said sync block with the quantizing step data, the auxiliary code, a DC component of said digital information signal, and the output of the variable length code encoding means.

Claim 12

The digital information signal recording apparatus as in claim 9, further comprising: packing means for dividing said output of the variable length code encoding means into sync blocks each having a data area of a predetermined number of bytes.

Claim 13

The digital information signal recording apparatus as in claim 9, further comprising: error correction code encoding means for encoding said data area and said ID signal of each said sync block with an error correction code so as to provide a correction capability for said data area.

Claim 14

A digital information signal transferring method for transferring sequential sync blocks, each sync block being of a data structure having an effective area which contains digital information signals which may be of different types, and a synchronous and ID area which contains synchronous, ID and parity information signals, comprising the steps of: encoding said digital information signal; forming an insertion area for said synchronous signal and said ID signal in the encoded digital information signal; supplying said ID signal which includes format identifying data to identify a type of device that will be supplied with said sync block, data for identifying the type of said digital information signal, and a sync block number; and adding said ID signal in said insertion area.

Claim 15

A digital information signal transferring method for transferring sequential sync blocks, each sync block being of a data structure having an effective area which contains digital information signals which may be of different types, and a synchronous and ID area which contains synchronous, ID and parity information signals, comprising the steps of: encoding said digital information signal; forming an insertion area for said synchronous signal and said ID signal in the encoded digital information signal; supplying said ID signal which includes format identifying data to identify a type of device that will be supplied with said sync block, data for identifying the type of said digital information signal, and a sync block number; and adding said ID signal in said insertion area.

Claim 16

The digital information signal transferring method as in claim 12, further comprising the steps of: quantizing the encoded digital information signal; determining a quantizing step of said quantizing and generating corresponding quantizing step data; generating an auxiliary code in accordance with said information signals; and selectively adding said auxiliary code and said quantizing step data to said effective area; whereby the amount of effective area of the sync block may be selectively increased when said auxiliary code and said quantizing step data are omitted.

Claim 17

The digital information signal transferring method as in claim 13, further comprising the steps of: encoding the quantizied information signal with a variable length code; said determine of said quantizing step data of said quantizing means limits an output of said variable length code encoding means to at most a predetermined data amount in a predetermined time period; and forming said data structure of said sync block with the quantizing step data, the auxiliary code, a DC component of said digital information signal, and the output of the variable length code encoding.

Claim 18

The digital information signal transferring method as in claim 14, further comprising the step of: dividing said output of the variable length code encoding into sync blocks each having a data area of a predetermined number of bytes.

Claim 19

The digital information signal transferring method as in claim 14, further comprising the step of: encoding said data area and said ID signal of each sync block with error correction code for providing a correction capability for said data area.

Claim 20

In a digital information signal receiving apparatus for receiving sequential sync blocks, each sync block being of a data structure having an effective area which contains digital information signals which may be of different types, and a synchronous and ID area which contains synchronous, ID and parity information signals, with the synchronous and ID information signals being inserted in data areas containing data representing the digital information signal, a signal processing circuit comprising: ID error correcting means for correcting an error of an ID signal which includes format identifying data to identify a type of device that will be supplied with said sync block, data for identifying the type of said digital information signal, and a sync block number; data error correcting means for correcting an error of digital information representing data in a data area; and inversely transforming means for inversely transforming error corrected data into an original digital information signal, said signal processing circuit being controlled with said sync block number of said error corrected ID signal and a record data ID.

Claim 21

In a digital information signal receiving apparatus for receiving sequential sync blocks, each sync block being of a data structure having an effective area which contains digital information signals which may be of different types, and a synchronous and ID area which contains synchronous, ID and parity information signals, with the synchronous and ID information signals being inserted in data areas containing data representing the digital information signal, a signal processing circuit comprising: ID error correcting means for correcting an error of an ID signal which includes format identifying data to identify a type of device that will be supplied with said sync block, data for identifying the type of said digital information signal, and a sync block number; data error correcting means for correcting an error of digital information representing data in a data area; and inversely transforming means for inversely transforming error corrected data into an original digital information signal, said signal processing circuit being controlled with said sync block number of said error corrected ID signal and a record data ID.