Provided is a magnification observation device capable of easily moving an observation object in a desired direction even when a stage is rotated, and capable of preventing a desired region of the observation object from going outside an imaging region due to rotation of the stage. The method and apparatus receives an input pixel and a pixel array associated with the image, identifies a color of the pixel array to facilitate processing the input pixel and the pixel array associated with the image and locates the color and the association with a corresponding image enhancement operation in a color lookup table. The shared ray data, and other ray data sufficient to determine both an origin and a direction for each ray of the plurality, are transmitted. The lifting arm assembly includes a cover pivoting assembly and a cover transporting assembly. The predicted value for an instruction with its value prediction field containing \u20180\u2019 is nullified. A corresponding method of audio reproduction comprises reading a recording and a meta-data set associated with that recording from storage, applying transformations to the recording data in accordance with the metadata set transformation profile; and then outputting the transformed recording.