Abstract: A luminance signal/color signal separating circuit comprises a comb filter for Y/C separation. The addition output of the comb filter comprises a luminance signal component, while the subtraction output comprises a color signal component and non-correlation components of a luminance signal. The non-correlation components in the subtraction output are extracted by a trap circuit and added to the addition output of the comb filter. Accordingly, the degradation of vertical direction resolution of reproduced signal will be prevented. Also, under some circumstances, the extracted non-correlation components are previously enhanced before being added to the luminance signal. The noise reduction circuit in reproduction mode shares the above comb filter for color signal separation. When dropout occurs, the color signal in the output of the 1H delay circuit of the comb filter is inverted and separated to be used as a drop out compensation signal.

Abstract: A luminance signal processing circuit of a VCR functions as a non-correlation component enhancement circuit during recording, and as a line correlation noise reduction circuit during reproduction. The luminance signal processing circuit enhances the non-correlation components in the luminance signal utilizing a 1H delay circuit of the output side of a conventional 3 line logical comb filter which is used as a Y/C separting circuit, during recording. The luminance signal processing circuit removes the noise components in the reproduced luminance signal utilizing a 1H delay circuit of the input side of a conventional 3 line logical comb filter which is used as a noise reduction circuit for remaining color components, during reproduction.