Abstract: Disclosed is process for forming a color filter array layer on a transparent surface, comprising the step of applying a water-borne solid-particle dispersion of randomly disposed colored beads of a water-immiscible synthetic polymer to the surface.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for forming an N-acylamino pyrazole comprising contacting a N-acyl-3-oxo-imino ether compound either with a salt of hydrazine in the presence of a base or with hydrazine.

Abstract: Disclosed is color silver halide photographic element comprising a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer or a non-silver containing light-insensitive layer, said light-sensitive or light-insensitive layer containing a polymer compound comprising a repeating benzotriazole subunit wherein a) the benzotriazole monomer corresponding to the benzotriazole subunit has a Calculated logP of at least 3.1 and less than 6.2; or b) the benzotriazole monomer corresponding to the benzotriazole subunit has a Calculated logP of less than 3.1 and the polymer additionally comprises a co-monomer with Calculated logP of 0.5 or greater, and the amount of the polymer compound in the element is sufficient to increase the photographic speed of the element compared to the same element without the polymer compound.

Abstract: Disclosed is a form comprising a surface having a morphology of complex lenses wherein the surface asperities have an amplitude of between 1 and 40 micrometers, a spatial frequency of between 1 and 100 complex lenses per square millimeter, and between 1 and 40 minor lenses per major lens. Also disclosed is a method for making such a form.

Abstract: The invention relates to an ultrahigh contrast photographic material comprising a support bearing a silver halide emulsion layer, containing a combination of two or more hydrazide nucleating agents in the emulsion layer and/or a hydrophilic colloid layer, characterized in that the combination comprises a nucleating agent(s) of formulae (I) and/or (I) with a nucleator of formula (III), in which the nucleating agent of formula (I) comprises (a) two nicotinamide moieties, which may be the same or different, which are linked by a linking group, and (b) a hydrazide moiety linked to only one of those nicotinamide moieties; the nucleating agent of formula (II) comprises a dimeric molecule comprising two monomers linked by a linking group, each monomer of which (a) may be the same or different and (b) comprises a hydrazide moiety and a nicotinamide moiety; and the nucleating agent of formula (III) comprises an aryl sulfonamido aryl hydrazide.

Abstract: Disclosed is a photographic element comprising a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a cyan “NB coupler” having the formula (I): wherein: the term “NB coupler” represents a coupler of formula (I) that forms a dye for which the left bandwidth (LBW) using spin-coating is at least 5 nm less than that of the same dye in solution form; X is selected from O, NR* or S and R* is an alkyl, carbocyclic or heterocyclic group; L is a linking group and a is 0 or 1; Y is H or a coupling-off group; Z* is a substituent group and p is 0 to 2; and R1 and R2 are independently selected H or substituents; provided that the combined sum of the aliphatic carbon atoms in R1, R2, R*, L and all Z* is at least 8.

Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide direct view multicolor photographic element comprising a green record containing a green light sensitized silver halide emulsion and comprising either (a) a magenta dye-forming coupler and a cyan dye-forming coupler in an amount of at least 0.1 mole % of the couplers present in the green record, or (b) a green record having a coupler or couplers sufficient to provide upon development a Status A red density greater than 0.23 as measured using a green light separation exposure at a Status A green density of 1.0.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process comprising reacting an N-allylimino nitrobenzene compound with a diaminodinucleophile to form an &agr;-amino-N-allylamidino nitrobenzene compound and the compound itself.

Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide direct view multicolor photographic element comprising a red record containing (1) a red light sensitized silver halide emulsion, (2) a cyan dye-forming NB first coupler, and (3) a second coupler selected from (a) a magenta dye forming coupler in an amount of 2-30 mole % of the total coupler in the red record and (b) a cyan dye-forming coupler having a greater absorption in the green spectra than the first coupler in an amount sufficient to provide a Status A green density in the range of 0.27 to 0.40 using a red light separation exposure at a Status A red density of 1.0. Such an element exhibits improved flesh tone reproduction and good dye dark stability.

Abstract: The invention provides a photographic element comprising at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith at least one cyan dye-forming coupler, UV absorber and (A) a stabilizer of formula (I) wherein R1 is an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl or aryl group or a 5- to 10- membered heterocyclic ring which contains one or more heteroatoms selected from nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur, which ring is unsubstituted or substituted; Z is a hydrogen atom or a substituent group; X is a group selected from —SO2—, —SO—, —COO—,—CO— and —CS—, W is one or more unsubstituted or independently substituted alkylene groups connecting the nitrogen atom to X, and p is 0 or 1; R2 is a substituent group; or the groups represented by Z and R2 can be joined to form a ring which may be substituted; and (B) a high-boiling solvent of formula (II) wherein R3 is an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl or

Abstract: Disclosed is a 4-amino-2-hydroxy-5-substituted-acylanilide compound having the structural formula I: wherein R is hydrogen or an alkyl group, and Y is a substituent group linked to the rest of the compound by a hetero atom. Also disclosed is a method of using the compound to prepare an intermediate in a simplified process for making a cyan dye-forming coupler.

Abstract: This invention relates to a silver halide photographic element containing a phenolic infrared dye-forming coupler bearing in the 2-position either a benzamido group substituted with a sulfonyl group or a heterocyclic carbonamido group, and bearing in the 5-position a non-carbonamido group, which element is useful for incorporating and recovering metadata, such as sound data, into a photographic image and is specifically concerned with the incorporation of non-visually perceptible sound information into a photograph.

Abstract: Disclosed is a photographic element comprising a support bearing a light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a dye forming coupler having a formula I, wherein: Ballast is a group containing at least 6 aliphatic carbon atoms, V represents a chain of three or four atoms, which may be substituted, selected from C, N, O and S sufficient to form an aromatic ring fused to the azole ring and n is 0 or 1, provided that if n is 0, Y and Ballast are directly attached to the 5-membered azole ring, W is an electron withdrawing group selected from the group consisting of —CN, —CONR1R2, —CO2R1, —NO2, and —SO2R1 where R1 and R2 are H or substituents; X is H or a coupling-off group; Y is H or a substituent; Z is an atom or group selected from >N—R, —O—, and —S—.

Abstract: Disclosed is a photographic element comprising a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a coupler that forms a dye for which the &lgr;max using spin-coating is shifted towards the infrared region of the spectrum by at least 30 nm, when compared to the &lgr;max of the same dye in solution form, to a value of at least 700 nm. Such an element is useful for recording metadata with an image.

Abstract: Disclosed is a photographic element comprising a silver halide emulsion and a peptoid-containing azole dye-forming coupler.

Abstract: Disclosed is a 6-acylamino-5-substituted-benzoxazol-2-one compound having the structural formula I: wherein Y is halogen or a substituent group linked to the rest of the compound by a hetero atom, and R′ is a group containing at least 8 carbon atoms. Also disclosed is a method for forming a cyan dye-forming coupler from the above compound. The method and intermediate provide a simplified manufacturing process.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for forming an azomethine compound, comprising: (a) reacting a compound “A” having an active methylene group or methine group with an arylprimaryamine compound “B”; (b) in the presence of a base and an oxidizing agent and in a solvent medium containing a ketone compound having the formula R1C(O)R2 wherein R1 and R2 are independently C1-C4 alkyl groups; (c) at a temperature low enough to provide a yield of the azomethine product of at least 50 mole % based on compound A.

Abstract: Disclosed is a 2-benzyloxy-4-nitro-5-substituted-acylanilide compound of the general formula I: wherein R is hydrogen or an alkyl group, each RA is an independently selected substituent and n is 0-5, and Y is a substituent group linked to the rest of the compound by a hetero atom. Also disclosed is a method for using the intermediates in manufacture of dye-forming couplers.

Abstract: Disclosed is a compound comprising a 2-benzyloxy-5-haloacylanilide having the structural formula I: wherein R is hydrogen or an alkyl group, RA is a substituent and n is 0-5; and X is a halogen. Also disclosed is a method for preparing a coupler using the compound. The compound and method simplify the preparation of photographic couplers.

Abstract: Disclosed is a 5-acylamino-2-arylazo, nitro, or nitroso-4-substituted-phenol having the structural formula I: wherein: R* is an arylazo, nitro, or nitroso group, Y is a coupling-off group, and R′ is a substituent group. Also disclosed is a method of using the compound in a simplified process for making a photographic coupler.