Pioneer Electronic Corporation

Hudson Soft Co., Ltd.

Hirofumi Matoba

Noriyoshi Takeya

Hitoshi Yamazaki

Takashi Yoshimi

Manabu Okamoto

Hiroyasu Matsuura

Masakazu Miyazaki

Yoshiki Furuta

Setsuo Okada

Masahiro Sui

Yoshinobu Nagase

A video image mixing apparatus which can prevent a fluctuation of a mixed video image by a mixed video signal in the case where a playback video signal obtained by playing a recording medium in a special playing mode and a graphics video signal. When a discontinuity of the phase of a color burst signal in the playback video signal obtained by playing the recording medium is detected, the playback video signal and the graphics video signal are delayed by a predetermined time period and the delayed signals are mixed subsequently, thereby keeping the phases of chroma signals of the playback video signal and graphics video signal equal even in a special playing mode such as a still image reproducing mode or the like. In another embodiment, the mixed video signal of the playback video signal and graphics video signal is delayed by a predetermined time and is generated.

Video image mixing apparatus

A video signal mixing apparatus for mixing a playback composite video signal produced by playing a recording medium and a graphics composite video signal generated on the basis of video data read from a memory device, wherein a vertical synchronizing signal of the playback composite video signal is forcedly generated in response to a vertical synchronizing signal of the graphics composite video signal to make the number of horizontal scanning lines of the playback composite video signal coincident with the number of horizontal scanning lines of the graphics composite video signal.

Apparatus for mixing video signals having different numbers of lines

A video mixing apparatus mixes a graphics video image and a playback video image at a plurality of mixture ratios in one image plane. Fade data indicative of the mixing ratio of at least one line of the playback video signal and the graphics video signal is sequentially generated in accordance with a predetermined order. The fade data is held into holding means and is outputted from the holding means synchronously with a horizontal sync signal. The levels of the playback video signal and the graphics video signal are individually adjusted in accordance with the fade data outputted from the holding means and the adjusted signals are added. The playback video signal and the graphics video signal are mixed at the mixing ratio set every line of one image plane. In a video apparatus using the graphics video image and playback video image, various kinds of effective video images can be formed by mixing the graphics video image of every video image such as background, person, characters, or the like and the playback video image.

Video mixing apparatus capable of combining two input signals and

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