Abstract: The image processing circuit 400 is provided with R RAM 418, G RAM 420, and B RAM 422. During the vertical blanking interval of a display device 122, tone correction results corresponding to all values which can be inputted as the input signal Di are stored as a lookup table (LUT) in each RAM. When an image is displayed in the display device 122, tone correction of the input signal Di is indirectly performed by referencing the LUT. Redundant computation can thereby be avoided, and power consumption can be reduced.

Abstract: A television signal processing circuit that includes a display device having a screen with an aspect ratio of m1:n1 (m1<n1), a circuit for displaying a main-picture originated from a first television signal on the display device, a processor for superimposing a sub-picture originated from a second television signal with a reduced size smaller than the main-picture on a part of the main-picture by thinning out the scanning lines of the second television signals, a selector for selecting the display mode of the main-picture between a normal display mode associated with a first number of scanning lines and a zoom display mode associated with a second number of scanning lines less than the first number of scanning lines as well as an expanded vertical amplitude, and a thinning-out processor responsive to the selecting means for thinning out the scanning lines of the sub-picture, either to display the sub-picture at an aspect-ratio of m2:n2 (m2<n2) by thinning out the scanning lines of the sub-picture to 1/a

Abstract: Nitrogen having purity of 99.9999% or more can be produced continuously by contacting a starting gas mixture comprising 90% by volume or more of nitrogen and 10% by volume or less of oxygen with A-type zeolite package in an adsorption column at an adsorption temperature of -100.degree. to -196.degree. C. to remove oxygen from the starting gas mixture and regenerating A-type zeolite by heating it at a temperature higher than the adsorption temperature.

Abstract: A method of separating gases which includes: a step which introduces into a separating cell a mixture gas that contains paramagnetic gases and nonparamagnetic gases, and which separates the paramagnetic gases and the nonparamagnetic gases from the mixture gas via a permeable membrane in the separating cell; and a step which applies a magnetic field to a gas stream of the mixture gas nearly at right angles therewith to form a high gradient magnetic field region, so that the paramagnetic gases and the nonparamagnetic gases are separated from the mixture gas by the high gradient magnetic field.