Methods and systems for determining fields in a video signal are
disclosed. Historic field ID values for a received video signal may be
stored and subsequently utilized by a summer and/or a correlator in order
to estimate a field ID value for a current field. The summer may sum all
historic field ID values and, if the sum is within a determined range,
for example, the field ID value for a current field may be estimated
based on the sum of the historic field ID values. If the sum is not
within the determined range, for example, the historic field ID values
may be correlated with an expected field ID value or with an inverted
expected field ID value. The correlation may then be utilized to estimate
the field ID value for the current field.