Tracking correction for a rotary head by detection of the minimum signal level

摘要

In an automatic tracking system for a magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus wherein tracking is controlled so as to increase an amplitude of a reproduced signal which is delivered from a rotary head for reproducing a track recorded by a helical scan system, the amplitudes of the reproduced signal are detected at a plurality of points of time within one rotational cycle of the rotary head, and the tracking is controlled so as to increase a minimum value among the detected values at the plurality of points of time.