Printer for printing multi-standard television signals

Claim 1

A printer for printing T.V. signals, which comprises: a video memory for storing T.V. signals; a horizontal counter which starts to count clock pulses when horizontal synchronizing signals of the T.V. signals are input, and generates a horizontal pulse when the counted value becomes equal to a first predetermined value which is variable; a vertical counter which starts to count horizontal synchronizing signals when a vertical synchronizing signal of the T.V. signals is input, and generates a vertical pulse when the counted value becomes equal to a second predetermined value which is variable; a characters-in-one-line counter which starts to count the clock pulses when the horizontal pulse is input, and generates an operation stop signal when the counted value becomes equal to the number of printing characters in one line for the output of the printer; a writing address counter which resets its counted value when the vertical pulse is input, delivers address signals to the video memory while counting up the number of clock pulses that occur while the horizontal pulse is input, and stops the counting-up and the generating of address signals when the operation stop signal is input; a read-out control circuit for reading out the T.V. signals stored in the video memory; and a printer for printing the read-out T.V. signals.