Patents Assigned to Konica Corp.
  • Patent number: 4951079
    Abstract: A camera for taking photographs by voice recognition operations. The camera comprises a microphone through which voiced command words of an operator are registered in a computer as a form of digital data. Voice registration can be done by using the actual camera operating switches. The computer identifies the same voiced command words in accordance with the registered data and operates the intended functions of the camera. The camera indicates the functioning of the computer for the registration and the recognition of the voiced command words with a display device so that the operator can confirm his operations on the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 21, 1990
    Assignee: Konica Corp.
    Inventors: Yasushi Hoshino, Tsuyoshi Kakita, Makoto Yoshida
  • Patent number: H1167
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing a silver halide color photographic material is disclosed. The photographic material comprises a blue light-sensitive layer-unit, a green light-sensitive layer-unit and a red light-sensitive layer-unit in which at least one of the light-sensitive layer-units comprises two or three silver halide emulsion layers being substantially the same in spectral sensitivity and different in speed from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1993
    Assignee: Konica Corp.
    Inventors: Kuniaki Uezawa, Masaru Iwagaki, Kiichi Sato, Hideo Akamatsu, Minoru Ishikawa
  • Patent number: H1608
    Abstract: A method of processing with a developer a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed, the material comprising a support and provided thereon, a silver halide emulsion layer comprising silver halide grains having not less than 90 mol % chloride, the emulsion layer or a hydrophilic colloid layer adjacent to the emulsion layer containing a tetrazolium compound, or a hydrazine derivative, and replenisher for developer being supplied to the developer in an amount of not more than 200 ml per m.sup.2 of the material processed, wherein the developer contains a carbonate salt in an amount of not less than 0.2 mol/liter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1996
    Assignee: Konica Corp.
    Inventors: Shoji Nishio, Hideki Komatsu