Signal processing apparatus

Claim 2

A circuit for separating the luminance and chrominance signals from a video signal which is changing with time in one or more ways relative to a picture displayed from the video signal, the circuit comprising: a plurality of luminance and chrominance signal separating means for separating said luminance and chrominance signals from said video signal using correlations in a plurality of said ways; and intermediate value selecting means for selecting the luminance and chrominance signals having intermediate values among the separated signals.

Claim 3

A circuit for separating the luminance and chrominance signals from a video signal as recited in claim 1 wherein the luminance and chrominance signal separating means include a low pass filter for separating the luminance signal and a bandpass filter for separating the chrominance signal, whereby horizontal correlation is utilized for the separation.

Claim 4

A circuit for separating the luminance and chrominance signals from a video signal as recited in claim 1 wherein the luminance and chrominance signal separating means include a delay circuit having a delay period of one horizontal line period, an adder, a subtracter, and wherein the video signal is supplied in common to the adder, the subtracter, and the delay circuit and the output of the delay circuit is supplied in common to the adder and the subtracter whereby the luminance signal is derived at the output of the adder and the chrominance signal is derived at the output of the subtracter based on vertical correlation.

Claim 5

A circuit for separating the luminance and chrominance signals from a video signal as recited in claim 3 wherein the luminance and chrominance signal separating means include a frame memory, an adder, a subtracter, and wherein the video signal is supplied in common to the adder, the subtracter, and the frame memory and the output of the frame memory is supplied in common to the adder and the subtracter whereby the luminance signal is derived at the output of the adder and the chrominance signal is derived at the output of the subtracter based on frame correlation.

Claim 6

A circuit for separating the luminance and chrominance signals from a video signal as recited in claims 1, 2, 3, or 4 wherein each intermediate value selecting means comprises a maximum value circuit, a minimum value circuit, a first adder, a second adder and a subtracter and wherein each of the outputs of the luminance or the chrominance signal separating means is input in common to the maximum value circuit, the minimum value circuit, and the first adder, the output of the maximum value circuit and minimum value circuits are added together by the second adder, and the output of the second adder is subtracted by the subtracter from the output of the first adder to produce an output which is a separated luminance or chrominance signal having an intermediate value.

Claim 7

A circuit for separating the luminance and chrominance signals from a video signal as recited in claim 1 wherein each intermediate value selecting means comprises a plurality of N maximum value selecting circuits, where N is the number of luminance or chrominance signal separating means, and a minimum value circuit, and wherein the output of each luminance or chrominance signal separating means is input to N-1 of the maximum value selecting circuits so that each maximum value circuit has N-1 inputs, and the outputs of the maximum value circuits are input to the minimum value circuit whereby the output of the minimum value circuit is an intermediate one of the separated luminance or chrominance signals, respectively.

Claim 8

A circuit for separating the luminance and chrominance signals from a video signal as recited in claim 1 wherein each intermediate value selecting means comprises a plurality of N minimum value selecting circuits, where N is the number of luminance or chrominance signal separating means, and a maximum value circuit, and wherein the output of each luminance or chrominance signal separating means is input to N-1 of the minimum value selecting circuits so that each minimum value circuit has N-1 inputs, and the outputs of the minimum value circuits are input to the maximum value circuit whereby the output of the maximum value circuit is an intermediate one of the separated luminance or chrominance signals, respectively.

Claim 9

A circuit for separating the luminance and chrominance signals from a video signal as recited in claims 6 or 7 wherein the number N of luminance and chrominance signal separating means is three and the luminance and chrominance signal separating means utilize horizontal, vertical and frame correlation, respectively.

Claim 10

A circuit for separating the luminance and chrominance signals from a video signal as recited in claim 1 wherein the luminance and chrominance signal separating means includes a transversal filter for signal separation using the horizontal correlation.