Patent attributes
An apparatus including a one-field delay circuit 21 for delaying a luminance signal F0 of a video signal under judgment by an amount of one field; a subtractor circuit 22 for generating a difference signal FD0 indicating the difference between a luminance signal F1 and the luminance signal F0 for each field; an adder circuit 23; a one-field delay circuit 24; a one-field delay circuit 25 for delaying the difference signal FD0 by an amount of one field; and a comparison circuit 26 and a judgment circuit 27 for comparing the difference signals FD0 and FD1 and deciding if the luminance signal FD0 is a film video signal based on the result of the comparison.