Abstract: A circuit for producing a brightness signal from output color signals of a solid state image pick-up apparatus. The circuit comprises a delay circuit for delaying an output signal generated by one solid state image sensor by a delay time corresponding to one-half of a spatial sampling period so that the phase of the output signal of the one solid state image sensor is made to coincide with the phase of an output signal of another solid state image sensor. A first filter is provided for cutting off higher frequency components contained in the output signal of the delay circuit and in the output signal of the other solid state image sensor, and a signal processor is provided for processing output signals of the first filter.

Abstract: A color television image processing apparatus having a color fading reduction function which compresses the luminance signal and color difference signals with different compression ratios. Color fading can be prevented even for high luminance images colored by complicated mixtures of red, green and blue signals.

Abstract: Common use of 1H delay circuits (14 and 15), which are used as parts of a contour correction circuit (17) and a comb filter for reducing the interference between the luminance signal and the color signal (cross color noises), reduces the required number of the 1H delay circuits, and the space for mounting the 1H delay circuits, and reduces the cost.