Delay Circuit and Video Signal Processing Circuit Using the Same

A video signal processing circuit demodulating a luminance signal and a chroma signal based on a video signal of television broadcasting having three-primary-color information on colors captured as an image, further demodulating the chroma signal into two color-difference signals in the course of color demodulation processing of the chroma signal in parallel with luminance signal processing of the luminance signal, and regenerating the three-primary-color information of the video signal of composite form, based on the luminance signal and the two color-difference signals, the video signal processing circuit comprising:

• a switched capacitor group that includes a plurality of switched capacitor units, wherein
• each of the plurality of switched capacitor has a charging MOS transistor and a discharging MOS transistor, and a capacitive element which is connected to sources of the charging and the discharging MOS transistors and which is charged/discharged by turning on/off gates of the charging and the discharging MOS transistors, and wherein
• the plurality of switched capacitor units are connected such that the demodulated color-difference signal is input in common to each of drains of the charging MOS transistors and such that the capacitive elements are charged as well as such that the capacitive elements are discharged to allow a signal to be output from each of drains of the discharging MOS transistors, the signal being delayed from the color-difference signal by 1H period;
• a switching control unit that
• performs on/off control of each of gates of the charging and the discharging MOS transistors, to cause each of the capacitive elements to be charged in sequence based on the color-difference signal, and that,
• upon causing the each of the capacitive elements to be charged in sequence based on the color-difference signal, causes the capacitive element charged last time to be discharged, to allow a signal to be output in sequence, the signal being delayed from the color-difference signal by 1H period;
• an adder that adds together the color-difference signals before and after the 1H-period delay;
• and
• a matrix circuit that regenerates the three-primary-color information based on the result of adding performed by the adder and on the luminance signal subjected to the luminance signal processing, wherein
• with respect to the two adjacent switched capacitor units of the plurality of switched capacitor units, the respective charging MOS transistors are adjacent to each other and the respective discharging MOS transistors are adjacent to each other, and drains of the respective charging MOS transistors are common and drains of the respective discharging MOS transistors are common.