Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

Victor Company of Japan, Limited

Teruo Hotta

Yutaka Shimizu

Hideaki Sasaki

Shigeru Sawada

An input video signal is written into alternate field memories M1 and M2, according to a timing clock from an input video clock generator. A display video signal is alternately read from those field memories, according to a timing clock from a display video clock generator. In switching a read memory, an address observation circuit judges whether or not a read/write address passes by a write/read address, referring to the condition of reading and writing operations. In this event, the circuit makes a judgement, based on the lag between a vertical synchronizing signals of an input video signal and of a display video signal, and a change of the lag with time. If it is judged that one address will pass by the other, the same read/write memory is again accessed for reading/writing. With this arrangement, there is provided a circuit having a relatively simple structure for preventing a match of read and write addresses.

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