A video signal processor wherein information included in video information displayed by a supplied video signal is utilized without requiring excessive effort by a user. When an execution instruction input of a screen memo function is received from the user through a remote controller (100), a control part (20) controls a capture memory part (5) to fetch a displayed image as a static image. The fetched static image is supplied to a child screen processing part (9) and displayed on a child screen. The control part (20) recognizes characters of character information included in the image fetched to the capture memory part and stores them in an EEPROM (24) to be secondarily used.