1. A nonaqueous electrolyte comprising a nonaqueous solvent and an electrolyte dissolved therein, wherein the nonaqueous electrolyte comprises i) a monofluorophosphate andor a difluorophosphate and ii) a first element in an amount of 1-100 ppm based on the whole nonaqueous electrolyte, wherein the first element is selected from the group consisting of cobalt and nickel,
wherein the first element is a salt of at least one ion selected from the group consisting of cobalt and nickel, and at least one selected from the group consisting of a hexafluorophosphoric acid, a tetrafluoroboric acid, a perchloric acid, a sulfuric acid, a nitric acid, an acetic acid, a carbonic acid, an oxalic acid, a citric acid, a benzoic acid, a phosphoric acid, a fluoric acid, and an acetylacetonate,
wherein the total content of the monofluorophosphate andor difluorophosphate is from 0.001% by mass to 5% by mass based on the whole nonaqueous electrolyte, and
wherein the monofluorophosphate and the difluorophosphate present in the nonaqueous electrolyte is a salt of at least one of a Group I metal ion, a Group II metal ion, a Group XIII metal ion and a quaternary onium ion.
2. The nonaqueous electrolyte according to claim 1, wherein the monofluorophosphate andor difluorophosphate is a difluorophosphate.
3. A nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery employing the nonaqueous electrolyte according to claim 1.
4. A nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery comprising a negative electrode and a positive electrode which are capable of occludingreleasing lithium ions and a nonaqueous electrolyte, wherein the nonaqueous electrolyte is the nonaqueous electrolyte according to claim 1.
5. The nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery according to claim 4, wherein the negative electrode comprises a carbonaceous material.
6. The nonaqueous-electrolyte secondary battery according to claim 4, wherein the negative electrode comprises a negative-electrode active material comprising at least one selected from the group consisting of an aluminum atom, a silicon atom, a tin atom, a lead atom, and a titanium atom.
7. The nonaqueous electrolyte according to claim 1, wherein the total content of the monofluorophosphate andor difluorophosphate is from 0.01% to 4% by mass based on the whole nonaqueous electrolyte.
8. The nonaqueous electrolyte according to claim 7, wherein the content of first element is from 2-100 ppm based on the whole nonaqueous electrolyte.
9. The nonaqueous electrolyte according to claim 7, wherein the content of the first element is from 5-50 ppm based on the whole nonaqueous electrolyte.
10. The nonaqueous electrolyte according to claim 1, wherein the total content of the monofluorophosphate andor difluorophosphate is from 0.05% to 3% by mass based on the whole nonaqueous electrolyte.
11. The nonaqueous electrolyte according to claim 10, wherein the content of the first element is from 3-100 ppm based on the whole nonaqueous electrolyte.
12. The nonaqueous electrolyte according to claim 1, wherein the total content of the monofluorophosphate andor difluorophosphate is from 0.1% to 3% by mass based on the whole nonaqueous electrolyte.
13. The nonaqueous electrolyte according to claim 1, wherein the content of the first element is from 2-100 ppm based on the whole nonaqueous electrolyte.
14. The nonaqueous electrolyte according to claim 1, wherein the content of the first element is from 3-100 ppm based on the whole nonaqueous electrolyte.
15. The nonaqueous electrolyte according to claim 1, wherein the content of the first element is from 5-50 ppm based on the whole nonaqueous electrolyte.
16. The nonaqueous electrolyte according to claim 1, wherein the monofluorophosphate andor the difluorophosphate present in the nonaqueous electrolyte is a lithium salt and the first element is a hexafluorophosphate salt.
17. The nonaqueous electrolyte of claim 1, wherein the first element is present in an amount of 1-50 ppm based on the whole nonaqueous electrolyte.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A method for enabling improved analysis and interpretation of associated infrared (IR) and visible light (VL) image data in an IR image and a VL image depicting a real world scene, said IR image and VL image being captured using a thermography arrangement comprising an IR imaging system and a VL imaging system, the method comprising:
capturing an IR image depicting the real world scene using the IR imaging system, having a first field of view;
capturing a visible light image depicting the real world scene using the visible light imaging system, having a second field of view;
processing at least one of the VL image and the IR image, wherein processing comprises a selection of cropping, windowing, zooming, shifting, and rotation such that the field of view represented in the VL image substantially corresponds to the field of view represented in the IR image, thereby generating a resulting IR image and a resulting VL image with corresponding fields of view;
associating an IR image and a VL image depicting the real world scene, wherein associating comprises generating a data structure comprising the associated images;
store said associated IR image and VL image; and
enabling a user to access the associated images for display of a representation of said associated images, wherein enabling comprises displaying the associated images on a display integrated in or coupled to the thermography arrangement.
2. A method according to claim 1, wherein enabling the user to access the associated images for display further comprises enabling display of a combined image dependent on the associated images.
3. A method according to claim 2, wherein the method further comprises:
aligning the IR image and the VL image;
determining that the VL image resolution value and the IR image resolution value are substantially the same; and
combining the IR image and the VL image to obtain the combined image.
4. A method according to claim 1, wherein enabling the user to access the associated images for display further comprises enabling switching between displaying the VL image and the IR image.
5. A method according to claim 1, wherein the processing further comprises determining a resolution value of the IR imaging system and a resolution value of VL imaging system, wherein the resolution value of the IR imaging system corresponds to the resolution of the captured IR image and the resolution value of VL imaging system corresponds to the resolution of the captured VL image.
6. A method according to claim 1, wherein processing further comprises determining that the VL image resolution value and the IR image resolution value are substantially the same.
7. A method according to claim 1, wherein processing further comprises processing the VL image by extracting the high spatial frequency content of the VL image.
8. A method according to claim 1, wherein processing further comprises processing the IR image to reduce noise in andor blur the IR image.
9. A method according to claim 1, wherein processing further comprises adding high resolution noise to the combined image.
10. A method according to claim 1, wherein processing further comprises combining the extracted high spatial frequency content of the captured VL image and the IR image to a combined image.
11. The method of claim 1, wherein the capturing of the IR image and the capturing of the VL image are performed simultaneously or in close succession.
12. A thermography arrangement for enabling improved analysis and interpretation of associated infrared (IR) and visible light (VL) image data in an IR image and a VL image depicting a real world scene, said arrangement comprising:
an IR imaging system configured to capture the IR image of the real world scene according to a first field of view;
a VL imaging system configured to capture the VL image according to a second field of view;
a processor configured to:
process at least one of the VL image and the IR image, wherein processing comprises a selection of cropping, windowing, zooming, shifting, and rotation such that the field of view represented in the VL image substantially corresponds to the field of view represented in the IR image, thereby generating a resulting IR image and a resulting VL image with corresponding fields of view,
associate an IR image and a VL image depicting the real world scene, wherein associating comprises generating a data structure comprising the associated images,
store said associated IR image and VL image, and
enable a user to access the associated images for display of a representation of said associated images, wherein enabling comprises displaying the associated images on a display integrated in or coupled to the thermography arrangement; and
a memory configured to store the associated IR and VL images.
13. The thermography arrangement of claim 12, further comprising a display configured to display at least one of the associated IR and VL images, wherein said display is integrated in or coupled to the thermography arrangement.
14. The thermography arrangement of claim 12, further comprising an interface configured to enable a user to access andor display the associated IR and VL images.
15. The thermography arrangement of claim 12, further comprising to a display configured to display the associated images to the user for further analysis and interpretation.
16. The thermography arrangement of claim 12, wherein the memory is a volatile memory that is:
integrated in the thermography arrangement; or
coupled to the thermography arrangement.
17. The thermography arrangement of claim 12, wherein the memory is a non-volatile memory that is:
integrated in the thermography arrangement;
coupled to the thermography arrangement; or integrated in an external unit configured to receive data from, andor transfer data to, the thermography arrangement.
18. The thermography arrangement of claim 12, wherein said processor is further configured to perform scaling of the at least one processed image such that the size of the images becomes the same.
19. The thermography arrangement of claim 12, wherein said processor is further configured to perform resampling the VL image andor IR image processed such that the resolution of the VL and IR images becomes the same.
20. A computer-readable medium on which is stored non-transitory information configured to control a processor to perform a method for enabling improved analysis and interpretation of associated infrared (IR) and visible light (VL) image data in an IR image and a VL image depicting a real world scene, said IR image and VL image being captured using a thermography arrangement comprising an IR imaging system and a VL imaging system, the method comprising:
capturing an IR image depicting the real world scene using the IR imaging system, having a first field of view;
capturing a visible light image depicting the real world scene using the visible light imaging system, having a second field of view;
processing at least one of the VL image and the IR image, wherein processing comprises a selection of cropping, windowing, zooming, shifting, and rotation such that the field of view represented in the VL image substantially corresponds to the field of view represented in the IR image, thereby generating a resulting IR image and a resulting VL image with corresponding fields of view;
associating an IR image and a VL image depicting the real world scene, wherein associating comprises generating a data structure comprising the associated images;
store said associated IR image and VL image; and
enabling a user to access the associated images for display of a representation of said associated images, wherein enabling comprises displaying the associated images on a display integrated in or coupled to the thermography arrangement.