Digital control system

Claim 2

A digital control system comprises means for forming pulses to be controlled in relation to a system to be controlled; means for forming reference pulses; means for producing clock pulses; phase comparison means for counting the number of clock pulses which are interposed in an interval between said pulse to be controlled and said reference pulse by means of a binary counter to detect a phase difference between said pulse to be controlled and said reference pulse as a binary number and for storing said binary number representing said phase difference; and frequency modulating means for transferring said binary number stored in said phase comparison means to a binary counter which effects frequency division upon said clock pulses to produce frequency modulated carrier pulses, whereby an integral control is effected for said system to be controlled.

Claim 3

A digital control system as claimed in claim 1 further comprises frequency discrimination means for counting the number of clock pulses corresponding to a deviation of a period of said pulse to be controlled with respect to a period of said reference pulse by means of a binary counter to detect a frequency deviation of said pulse to be controlled as a binary number and for storing said binary number representing said frequency deviation; and phase modulating means for transferring said stored binary number representing said frequency deviation to a delay counter to phase-modulate said carrier pulses which have been frequency-modulated by said frequency modulating means, whereby an integral control and a differential control are effected for said system to be controlled.

Claim 4

A digital control system as claimed in claim 2 further comprises means for transferring said binary number representing the phase difference and stored in said phase comparison means to said delay counter of said phase modulating means to phase-modulate said carrier pulses which have been frequency-modulated by said frequency modulating means, whereby an integral control, a differential control and a proportional control are effected for the system to be controlled.

Claim 5

A digital control system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said phase comparison means comprises a binary counter of n stages for counting the number of clock pulses corresponding to said phase difference, said n stage binary counter is so constructed that its output count value is 2n 2 in case of zero phase difference; its output count is held to 2n 1, when the number of clock pulses corresponding to said phase difference exceeds 2n 1, but said phase difference does not exceed about a half period of said reference pulse; and its output count is held to zero, when said phase difference exceeds about a half period of said reference pulse, but does not exceed a period of said reference pulse; whereby a time necessary for effecting the phase comparison is shortened.

Claim 6

A digital control system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said binary counter in said phase comparison means is so constructed as to be reset by said reference pulses and wave forms of said reference pulses are so modified that a time period during which said counter is reset is made longer, whereby a leading or lagging phase difference of said pulse to be controlled with respect to said reference pulse can be detected symmetrically.

Claim 7

A digital control system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said frequency modulating means comprises a binary counter of m stages which frequency-divides the clock pulses having a frequency fC to produce carrier pulses having a frequency fF, said carrier pulses being frequency-modulated by the binary coded modulating signal transferred from said phase comparison means, said binary coded modulating signal having a maximum value of 2n - 1, and 2m 1 < or = fC/fF < or = 2m - 2n 1; means for producing an output pulse constructing said carrier pulses each time a count value of said binary counter reaches 2m - 1 and for setting a counter output to 2m - (fC/fF + 2n 1) by means of a next following clock pulse; and means for adding a value of said modulating signal to a count value of said binary counter, when all of lower n bits of the count value of said binary counter are 1 and at least one of bits higher than an nth bit is 0.

Claim 8

A digital control system as claimed in claim 1 further comprises gain adjusting means between said phase comparison means and said frequency modulating means, said gain adjusting means comprising means for subtracting a given bias value from said binary number stored in said phase comparison means; means for multiplying an output from said subtracting means by I/2i (I and i are arbitrary positive integers); and means for adding said bias value to an output of said multiplying means to produce an output binary coded modulating signal, whereby a deviation of said output binary coded modulating signal with respect to said bias value is equal to a deviation of said input binary coded modulating signal multiplied by I/2i with respect to said bias value.

Claim 9

A digital control system as claimed in claim 1 further comprises gain adjusting means between said phase comparison means and said frequency modulating means, said gain adjusting means comprising a sampling circuit for exchanging a modulating signal supplied to said frequency modulating means between said binary coded modulating signal from said phase comparison means and a binary number for which said frequency modulating means produces carrier pulses having a center frequency; and a frequency divider for producing sampling pulses to said sampling circuit, whereby a gain adjustment is effected by changing a frequency division ratio of said frequency divider.

Claim 10

A digital control system as claimed in claim 2, wherein said phase comparison means comprises a binary counter of n stages for counting the number of clock pulses corresponding to said phase difference, said n stage binary counter is so constructed that its count value is 2n 2 in case of zero phase difference; its output count is held to 2n 1, when the number of clock pulses corresponding to said phase difference exceeds 2n 1, but said phase difference does not exceed about a half period of said reference pulse; and its output count is held to zero, when said phase difference exceeds about a half period of said reference pulse, but does not exceed a period of said reference pulse; whereby a time necessary for effecting the phase cOmparison is shortened.

Claim 11

A digital control system as claim in claim 2, wherein said binary counter in said phase comparison means is so constructed as to be reset by said reference pulses and wave forms of said reference pulses are so modified that a time period during which said counter is reset is made longer, whereby a leading or lagging phase difference of said pulse to be controlled with respect to said reference pulse can be detected symmetrically.

Claim 12

A digital control system as claimed in claim 2, wherein said frequency modulating means comprises a binary counter of m stages which frequency-divides the clock pulses having a frequency fC to produce carrier pulses having a frequency fF, said carrier pulses being frequency-modulated by the binary coded modulating signal transferred from said phase comparison means, said binary coded modulating signal having a maximum value of 2n - 1, and 2m 1 < or = fC/fF < or = 2m - 2n 1; means for producing an output pulse constructing said carrier pulses each time a count value of said binary counter reaches 2m - 1 and for setting a counter output to 2m - (fC/fF + 2n 1) by means of a next following clock pulse; and means for adding a value of said modulating signal to a count value of said binary counter, when all of lower n bits of the count value of said binary counter are 1 and at least one of bits higher than an nth bit is 0.

Claim 13

A digital control system as claimed in claim 2, wherein said frequency discrimination means comprises a binary counter of m stages for counting the number of clock pulses corresponding to said frequency deviation of said pulse to be controlled with respect to said reference pulse, said binary counter being so constructed that its output count is 2m 1 in case of zero deviation so as to be able to detect the maximum frequency deviation of 2m - 1, at each count starting instance a fraction of clock pulses being set to said binary counter, said fraction being obtained by subtracting from the number of clock pulses corresponding to a period of said referance pulse 2m 1 clock pulses and integer multiple of 2m clock pulses.

Claim 14

A digital control system as claimed in claim 2, wherein said frequency discrimination means comprises a high frequency response circuit having a digital type calculation circuit for deriving a difference between a value of said binary number representing said phase difference at any instance ti and that at an instance ti 1 which is delayed from said instance ti by a time period TS to produce a binary number representing said frequency deviation, whereby amplitude and phase characteristics of said digital type calculation circuit can be varied by changing said time period TS to change the frequency discrimination characteristic of said frequency discimination means.

Claim 15

A digital control system as claimed in claim 2, wherein said phase modulating means comprises a delay device having an m stage binary counter with respect to the binary coded modulating signal of n bits (n < or = m); and means for starting clock pulse-counting of said binary counter from zero count by means of a pulse to be modulated, for adding a value of said modulating signal to a count value just after said starting or during a counting operation or setting said counter to a value of said modulating signal by means of said pulse to be modulated, and for producing a modulated pulse at an instance at which the count value reaches an arbitrary count value of N(2n < or = N) and at the same time for stopping the counting operation of said counter, whereby a delay amount of said pulses to be modulated is varied in accordance with a value of said modulating signal.

Claim 16

A digital control system as cLaimed in claim 2, wherein said phase modulating means for phase modulating pulses to be modulated by said binary coded modulating signal is so constructed that writing and transferring of said modulating signal are effected by means of set input terminals and reset input terminals of flip-flops constituting said delay counter so as to separate counting means and transferring means from each other, whereby said delay counter is independent to construct a synchronized counter.

Claim 17

A digital control system as claimed in claim 2 further comprises gain adjusting means between said phase comparison means and said frequency modulating means and between said frequency discrimination means and said phase modulating means, each of said gain adjusting means comprising means for subtracting a given bias value from said binary number stored in said phase comparison means; means for multiplying an output from said subtracting means by I/2i (I and i are arbitrary positive integers); and means for adding said bias value to an output of said multiplying means to produce an output binary coded phase modulating signal, whereby a deviation of said output binary coded phase modulating signal with respect to said bias value is made equal to a deviation of said input binary coded phase modulating signal multiplied by I/2i with respect to said bias value.

Claim 18

A digital control system as claimed in claim 2 further comprises first gain adjusting means between said frequency discrimination means and said phase modulating means, said first gain adjusting means comprising means for subtracting a given bias value from said binary number stored in said frequency discrimination means, means for multiplying an output from said substracting means by I/2i (I and i are arbitrary positive integers), and means for adding said bias value to an output of said multiplying means to produce an output binary coded phase modulating signal, whereby a deviation of said output binary coded phase modulating signal with respect to said bias value is made equal to a deviation of said input binary coded phase modulating signal multiplied by I/2i with respect to said bias value; and second gain adjusting means between said phase comparison means and said frequency modulating means, said second gain adjusting means comprising, a sampling circuit for exchanging a modulating signal supplied to said frequency modulating means between said binary coded modulating signal from said phase comparison means and a binary number for which said frequency modulating means produces carrier pulses having a center frequency, and a frequency divider for producing sampling pulses supplied to said sampling circuit, whereby a gain adjustment is effected by changing a frequency division ratio of said frequency divider.

Claim 19

A digital control system as claimed in claim 3, wherein said phase comparison means comprises a binary counter of n stages for counting the number of clock pulses corresponding to said phase difference, said n stage binary counter is so constructed that its output count is 2n 2 in case of zero phase difference; its output count is held to 2n 1, when the number of clock pulses corresponding to said phase difference exceeds 2n 1, but said phase difference does not exceed about a half period of said reference pulse; and its output count is held to zero, when said phase difference exceeds about a half period of said reference pulse, but does not exceed a period of said reference pulse; whereby a time necessary for effecting the phase comparison is shortened.

Claim 20

A digital control system as claimed in claim 3, wherein said binary counter in said phase comparison means is so constructed as to be reset by said reference pulses and wave forms of said reference pulses are so modified that a time period during which said counter is reset is made longer, whereby a leading or lagging phase difference of saId pulse to be controlled with respect to said reference pulse can be detected symmetrically.

Claim 21

A digital control system as claimed in claim 3, wherein said frequency modulating means comprises a binary counter of m stages which frequency-divides the clock pulses having a frequency fC to produce carrier pulses having a frequency fF, said carrier pulses being frequency-modulated by the binary coded modulating signal transferred from said phase comparison means, said binary coded modulating signal having a maximum value of 2n - 1, and 2m 1 < or = fC/fF < or = 2m - 2n 1; means for producing an output pulse constructing said carrier pulses each time a count value of said binary counter reaches 2m - 1 and for setting a counter output to 2m - (fC/fF + 2n 1) by means of a next following clock pulse; and means for adding a value of said modulating signal to a count value of said binary counter, when all of lower n bits of an output count of said binary counter are 1 and at least one of bits higher than an nth bit is 0.

Claim 22

A digital control system as claimed in claim 3, wherein said frequency discrimination means comprises a binary counter of m stages for counting the number of clock pulses corresponding to said frequency deviation of said pulse to be controlled with respect to said reference pulse, said binary counter being so constructed that its output count is 2m 1 in case of zero deviation so as to be able to detect the maximum frequency deviation of 2m - 1, at each count starting instance a fraction of clock pulses being set to said binary counter, said fraction being obtained by subtracting from the number of clock pulses corresponding to a period of said reference pulse 2m 1 clock pulses and integer multiple of 2m clock pulses.

Claim 23

A digital control system as claimed in claim 3, wherein said frequency discrimination means comprises a high frequency response circuit having a digital type calculation circuit for deriving a difference between a value of said binary number representing said phase difference at any instance ti and that at an instance ti 1 which is delayed from said instance ti by a time period TS to produce a binary number representing said frequency deviation, whereby amplitude and phase characteristics of said digital type calculation circuit can be varied by changing said time period TS to change the frequency discrimination characteristic of said frequency discrimination means.

Claim 24

A digital control system as claimed in claim 3, wherein said phase modulating means comprises a delay device having an m stage binary counter with respect to the binary coded modulating signal of n bits (n < or = m); and means for starting clock pulse-counting of said binary counter from zero count by means of a pulse to be modulated, for adding a value of said modulating signal to a count value just after said starting or during a counting operation or setting said counter to a value of said modulating signal by means of said pulse to be modulated, and for producing a modulated pulse at an instance at which the count value reaches an arbitrary count value of N(2n < or = N) and at the same time for stopping the counting operation of said counter, whereby a delay amount of said pulses to be modulated is varied in accordance with a value of said modulating signal.

Claim 25

A digital control system as claimed in claim 3, wherein said phase modulating means for phase modulating pulses to be modulated by said binary coded modulating signal is so constructed that writing and transferring of said modulating signal are effected by means of set input terminals and reset input terminals of flip-flops constituting said delay counter so as to separate counting means and transfeRring means from each other, whereby said delay counter is independent to construct a synchronized counter.

Claim 26

A digital control system as claimed in claim 3 further comprises gain adjusting means between said phase comparison means and said frequency modulating means, between said frequency discrimination means and said phase modulating means and between said phase comparison means and said phase modulating means, each of said gain adjusting means comprising means for subtracting a given bias value from said binary number stored in said frequency discrimination means; means for multiplying an output from said subtracting means by I/2i (I and i are arbitrary positive integers); and means for adding said bias value to an output of said multiplying means to produce an output binary coded modulating signal to said phase modulating means, whereby a deviation of said output binary coded modulating signal with respect to said bias value is made equal to a deviation of said input binary coded modulating signal multiplied by I/2i with respect to said bias value.

Claim 27

A digital control system as claimed in claim 3 further comprises first gain adjusting means between said phase comparison means and said phase modulating means, second gain adjusting means between said frequency discrimination means and said phase modulating means and third gain adjusting means between said phase comparison means and said frequency modulating means, each of said first and second gain adjusting means comprising means for subtracting a given bias value from said binary number stored in said phase comparison means, means for multiplying an output from said substracting means by I/2i (I and i are arbitrary positive integers), and means for adding said bias value to an output of said multiplying means to produce an output binary coded modulating signal, whereby a deviation of said output binary coded modulating signal with respect to said bias value is equal to a deviation of said input binary coded modulating signal multiplied by I/2i with respect to said bias value, and said third gain adjusting means comprising a sampling circuit for exchanging a modulating signal supplied to said frequency modulating means between said binary coded modulating signal from said phase comparison means and a binary number for which said frequency modulating means produces carrier pulses having a center frequency, and a frequency divider for producing sampling pulses to said sampling circuit, whereby a gain adjustment is effected by changing a frequency division ratio of said frequency divider.

Claim 28

A digital control system comprises means for forming pulses to be controlled in relation to a system to be controlled; means for forming reference pulses; means for producing clock pulses; frequency discrimination means for counting the number of clock pulses corresponding to a deviation of a period of said pulse to be controlled with respect to a period of said reference pulse by means of a binary counter to detect said deviation as a binary number representing a frequency deviation of said pulse to be controlled with respect to said reference pulse and for storing said binary number; and phase modulating means for transferring said stored binary number to a delay counter to phase-modulate carrier pulses which are obtained by frequency-dividing said clock pulses, whereby a differential control is effected to said system to be controlled.

Claim 29

A digital control system comprises means for forming pulses to be controlled in relation to a system to be controlled; means for forming reference pulses; means for producing clock pulses; frequency discrimination means for counting the number of clock pulses corresponding to a deviation of a period of said pulse to be controlled with respect to a period of said reference pulse by means of a binary counter to detect said deviation as a binary number representing a frequency deviation of said pulse to be controlled with respect to said reference pulse and for storing said binary number; and phase modulating means for transferring said stored binary number to a delay counter to phase-modulate carrier pulses which are obtained by frequency-dividing said clock pulses, whereby a differential control is effected to said system to be controlled.

Claim 30

A digital control system comprises means for forming pulses to be controlled in relation to a system to be controlled; means for forming reference pulses; means for producing clock pulses; phase comparison means for counting the number of clock pulses which are interposed in an interval between said pulse to be controlled and said reference pulse by means of a binary counter to detect a phase difference between said pulses to be controlled and said refereNce pulse as a binary number and for storing said binary number representing said phase difference; and phase modulating means for transferring said stored binary number to a delay counter to phase-modulate carrier pulses which are obtained by frequency-dividing said clock pulses, whereby a proportional control is effected for said system to be controlled.

Claim 31

A digital control system comprises means for forming pulses to be controlled in relation to a system to be controlled; means for forming reference pulses; means for producing clock pulses; phase comparison means for counting the number of clock pulses which are interposed in an interval between said pulse to be controlled and said reference pulse by means of a binary counter to detect a phase difference between said pulses to be controlled and said refereNce pulse as a binary number and for storing said binary number representing said phase difference; and phase modulating means for transferring said stored binary number to a delay counter to phase-modulate carrier pulses which are obtained by frequency-dividing said clock pulses, whereby a proportional control is effected for said system to be controlled.

Claim 32

A digital control system for controlling a rotation of a recording and reproducing head of a video information recording and reproducing apparatus comprises means for detecting a rotation of a motor driving said recording and reproducing head to produce output TACH pulses; means for producing reference synchronizing pulses of a television signal; means for producing clock pulses; phase comparison means for counting the number of clock pulses which are interposed in an interval between said TACH pulse and said reference synchronizing pulse by means of a binary counter to detect a phase difference between said TACH pulse and said reference synchronizing pulse and for storing said binary number; frequency modulating means for transferring said binary number stored in said phase comparison means to a binary counter which effects frequency division upon said clock pulses to produce carrier pulses, said carrier pulses being frequency-modulated by said binary number from said phase comparison means; and means for driving said motor by means of motor driving pulses having a center frequency which is obtained by frequency-dividing said carrier pulses, whereby a repetition frequency of said clock pulses is so determined to have integer relation with a reference vertical synchronizing pulse frequency, a reference horizontal synchronizing pulse frequency of said television signal and said center frequency of said motor driving pulses.

Claim 33

A digital control system for controlling a rotation of a recording and reproducing head of a video information recording and reproducing apparatus comprises means for detecting a rotation of a motor driving said recording and reproducing head to produce output TACH pulses; means for producing reference synchronizing pulses of a television signal; means for producing clock pulses; phase comparison means for counting the number of clock pulses which are interposed in an interval between said TACH pulse and said reference synchronizing pulse by means of a binary counter to detect a phase difference between said TACH pulse and said reference synchronizing pulse and for storing said binary number; frequency modulating means for transferring said binary number stored in said phase comparison means to a binary counter which effects frequency division upon said clock pulses to produce carrier pulses, said carrier pulses being frequency-modulated by said binary number from said phase comparison means; and means for driving said motor by means of motor driving pulses having a center frequency which is obtained by frequency-dividing said carrier pulses, whereby a repetition frequency of said clock pulses is so determined to have integer relation with a reference vertical synchronizing pulse frequency, a reference horizontal synchronizing pulse frequency of said television signal and said center frequency of said motor driving pulses.

Claim 34

A digital control system comprises means for forming pulsps to be controlled in relation to a system to be controlled; means for forming reference pulses; means for producing clock pulses; phase comparison means for counting the number of clock pulses which are interposed in an interval between said pulse to be controlled and said reference pulse by means of a binary counter to detect a phase difference between said pulse to be controlled and said reference pulse as a binary number and for storing said binary number representing said phase difference; frequency modulating means for transferring said binary number stored in said phase comparison means to a binary counter which effects frequency-division upon said clock pulses to produce frequency-modulated carrier pulses, whereby an integral control is effected for said system to be controlled; and said means for forming reference pulses comprising an automatic phase adjusting device having a generator for producing a control signal and a reference pulse generating counter, a counting operation of which is controlled by said control signal and outputs of said counter being said reference pulses, wherein said control signal generator comprises means for deriving pulses having a given phase among reference composite synchronizing pulses, a frequency divider for frequency-dividing said reference pulses to produce pulses having the same frequency as that of said given phase pulses, a phase shifter for phase-shifting said pulses from said frequency divider by a time corresponding to the given number of clock pulses to produce delayed pulses and means for comparing the phase of said delayed pulses with that of said given phase pulses to produce said control signal, and said reference pulse generating counter frequency-divides said clock pulses by means of said control signal to produce said reference pulses having a frequency which is equal to that of said pulses to be controlled, whereby said system to be controlled is kept in a given phase relation with said reference composite synchronizing pulses.

Claim 35

A digital control system comprises means for forming pulsps to be controlled in relation to a system to be controlled; means for forming reference pulses; means for producing clock pulses; phase comparison means for counting the number of clock pulses which are interposed in an interval between said pulse to be controlled and said reference pulse by means of a binary counter to detect a phase difference between said pulse to be controlled and said reference pulse as a binary number and for storing said binary number representing said phase difference; frequency modulating means for transferring said binary number stored in said phase comparison means to a binary counter which effects frequency-division upon said clock pulses to produce frequency-modulated carrier pulses, whereby an integral control is effected for said system to be controlled; and said means for forming reference pulses comprising an automatic phase adjusting device having a generator for producing a control signal and a reference pulse generating counter, a counting operation of which is controlled by said control signal and outputs of said counter being said reference pulses, wherein said control signal generator comprises means for deriving pulses having a given phase among reference composite synchronizing pulses, a frequency divider for frequency-dividing said reference pulses to produce pulses having the same frequency as that of said given phase pulses, a phase shifter for phase-shifting said pulses from said frequency divider by a time corresponding to the given number of clock pulses to produce delayed pulses and means for comparing the phase of said delayed pulses with that of said given phase pulses to produce said control signal, and said reference pulse generating counter frequency-divides said clock pulses by means of said control signal to produce said reference pulses having a frequency which is equal to that of said pulses to be controlled, whereby said system to be controlled is kept in a given phase relation with said reference composite synchronizing pulses.