Appeal No. 95-4711 Application 08/128,053 This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1-4, which constitute all the claims remaining in the application. Claim 1 reads as follows: 1. A magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus having a drum around which a magnetic tape is wound, comprising: a rotary head mounted on said drum for helically scanning said magnetic tape so as to reproduce an information signal recorded on said magnetic tape; current amplification means disposed inside said drum near said rotary head for amplifying a current representing the reproduced information signal to produce a first reproducing signal; lower band suppression means disposed inside said drum for suppressing low frequency components of said first reproducing signal to produce a second reproducing signal; voltage amplification means disposed inside said drum for amplifying a voltage representing said second reproducing signal to produce a third reproducing signal; a rotary transformer having a primary winding disposed inside said drum for receiving said third reproducing signal, and a secondary winding disposed outside said drum for supplying said third reproducing signal received at said primary winding; and lower band emphasis means disposed outside said drum for emphasizing said low frequency components suppressed by said lower band suppression means in said third reproducing signal supplied from said secondary winding of said rotary transformer to produce a fourth reproducing signal. -2-Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007