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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 1996
Filed:
Oct. 19, 1994
Ryoji Asada, Hirakata, JP;
Kunio Sekimoto, Katano, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus for processing a progressive scanning video signal comprising a progressive to interlaced signal converter is provided. An input progressive scanning video signal is switched over alternately every one horizontal scanning line of progressive scanning so as to be divided into a main original signal and a sub-original signal. A time interval of the main original signal is expanded so as to convert the main original signal into a main signal having a period of horizontal scanning of interlaced scanning, whereas a time interval of the sub-original signal is expanded so as to convert the sub-original signal into a sub-signal having the period of the horizontal scanning of the interlaced scanning. Further, a synchronizing process is performed on the time-expanded main signal and the time-expanded sub-signal so as to output an interlaced scanning signal including the main signal and the sub-signal in synchronous with each other, and so that the main signal and the sub-signal start respectively from a pair of two horizontal lines which is continuously inputted after the first horizontal scanning line of the input progressive scanning video signal.