Still picture processing apparatus for a still camera

Claim 1

A still picture signal processing apparatus which stores a video signal of a still picture, reproduced from a recording medium, in a memory and supplies a still picture signal to a display apparatus by repeatedly reading stored contents of the memory, wherein said recording medium comprises a plurality of tracks arranged concentrically, the video signals of one field are independently recorded in each track or the video signals of one frame are recorded separately on two adjacent tracks, said still picture signal processing apparatus comprising: record presence/absence detection means for detecting whether a vide signal is recorded or not in a track, which is presently being reproduced, based on reproduction output from said recording medium; determining means for determining whether the track which is presently being reproduced is a field recorded-type track or a frame recorded-type track on a field/frame discriminating signal included in a reproduction signal reproduced from said recording medium; and control means for controlling writing of the video signal reproduced from said track into said memory based on the detection of said record presence/absence detection means and based on the result of the determination of said determining means, wherein said control means comprises a frame writing control means for controlling, after the video signal reproduced from one first track, constituting a first field of a frame recorded on two adjacent tracks of said recording medium, is written in said memory and when the video signal reproduced from a second adjacent track is processed, whether the reproduction video signal of the second adjacent track is written in said memory as the second field video signal constituting one frame together with the video signal of the first track which is stored in said memory, based on the result of the determination of said determining means.