Video camera, printer apparatus and method of controlling same, and a apparatus and method for detecting print inhibit signal

A circuit for detecting an output inhibit signal, comprising:

• reading means for reading video signals from a recording medium on which a first video signal and a second video signal have been recorded by recording one frame of the second video signal for every plurality of frames of the first video signal, wherein the first video signal represents an image of a subject photographed at an ordinary shutter speed and includes the output inhibit signal, which inhibits outputting of an image of the corresponding video signal to an output device, superposed thereon in a vertical blanking interval, and the second video signal represents the image of the subject photographed at a relatively higher shutter speed than the ordinary shutter speed;
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• superposed-signal detecting means for detecting and outputting the output inhibit signal, superposed in the vertical blanking interval, from the video signal read by said reading means.

A method of detecting an output inhibit signal, comprising the steps of:

• reading video signals from a recording medium on which a first video signal and a second video signal have been recorded by recording one frame of the second video signal for every plurality of frames of the first video signal, wherein the first video signal represents an image of a subject photographed at an ordinary shutter speed and includes the output inhibit signal, which inhibits outputting of an image of the corresponding video signal to an output device, superposed thereon in a vertical blanking interval, and the second video signal represents the image of the subject photographed at a shutter speed relatively higher than the ordinary shutter speed;
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• detecting the output inhibit signal, superposed in the vertical blanking interval, from the read video signal.

A circuit for detecting an output inhibit signal, comprising:

• reading device for reading video signals from a recording medium on which a first video signal and a second video signal have been recorded by recording one frame of the second video signal for every plurality of frames of the first video signal, wherein the first video signal represents an image of a subject photographed at an ordinary shutter speed and includes the output inhibit signal, which inhibits outputting of an image of the corresponding video signal to an output device, superposed thereon in a vertical blanking interval, and the second video signal represents the image of the subject photographed at a shutter speed relatively higher than the ordinary shutter speed;
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• superposed-signal detector for detecting and outputting the output inhibit signal, superposed in the vertical blanking interval, from the video signal read by said reading device.