Abstract: An imaging apparatus includes a acquisition unit acquires a measurement luminance, an exposure control unit, and a setting unit sets a control luminance to be used for exposure controlling in an image capturing. In an interval shooting mode, if a measurement luminance of a second image capturing to be performed after a first image capturing is in a predetermined range based on, as a reference point, a control luminance of the first image capturing, the setting unit sets a control luminance of the second image capturing to be the same as the control luminance of the first image capturing. If the measurement luminance of the second image capturing is not in the predetermined range, the setting unit sets the control luminance of the second image capturing based on a calculation result by using the measurement luminance of the second image capturing and the control luminance of the first image capturing.

Abstract: Provided is an image processing apparatus that determines crop positions for an image including a plurality of objects in a preferred manner. This image processing apparatus specifies object regions from the image, and sets a plurality of crop region candidates for each of the specified object regions. The image processing apparatus selects a predetermined number of crop regions from among the plurality of crop region candidates based on evaluation values obtained for the plurality of crop region candidates and on similarities among the plurality of crop region candidates.

Abstract: A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode 11 made of graphite powder and a negative electrode 13 made of lithium metal or a lithium-intercalatable/deintercalatable material. The positive electrode 11 and the negative electrode 13 are faced to each other with an electrolyte, containing a lithium salt, interposed in between. The positive electrode 11 has a carbon-derived absorption peak which appears within a range of 3200 gauss to 3400 gauss in an electron spin resonance method in which measurement is performed using an X band. A relative ratio (?H40K/?H296K) of the full width of half maximum intensity ?H40K of the peak measured at a temperature of 40 K to the full width of half maximum intensity ?H296K of the peak measured at a temperature of 296 K is 2.1 or more. Accordingly, it is possible to provide the non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery which prevents degradation of the capacity in charge/discharge cycles after performing high temperature floating charge.

Abstract: An optically active sulfimide compound is produced by using a specified Ru(salen)(CO) complex as a catalyst and subjecting a specified alkyl aryl sulfide compound to an asymmetric sulfimidation with a specified azide compound having an easily eliminating group.