Patents by Inventor Atsuo Ezaki
Atsuo Ezaki has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 5437966Abstract: The present invention describes a silver halide color negative photographic light-sensitive material having an improved graininess and an excellent image quality even when picture-taken under various light sources each having a color temperature different from daylight. A silver halide color photographic material comprises a light-sensitive layer unit containing a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion and a cyan coupler, a light-sensitive layer unit containing a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion and a magenta coupler, and a light-sensitive layer unit containing a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion and a yellow coupler, wherein RMS granularity of at least one of the light-sensitive layer units has the following relations;1.1 RMS.sub.0 .ltoreq.RMS.sub.1 .ltoreq.1.5 RMS.sub.0 and0.9 RMS.sub.0 .ltoreq.RMS.sub.2 .ltoreq.1.2 RMS.sub.0wherein RMS.sub.0 is an RMS value at a minimum density portion of the layer unit, RMS.sub.1 is an RMS value at a density portion of the minimum density+0.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 1994Date of Patent: August 1, 1995Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Hideaki Haraga, Toshihiko Yagi, Miki Kon, Hiroshi Shimazaki, Yoshihide Urakawa, Yoshitaka Yamada, Atsuo Ezaki, Syoji Matsuzaka
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Patent number: 5258273Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The light-sensitive material comprises a support, having thereon a red sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the red-sensitive comprises a low-speed red-sensitive silver halide emulsion sublayer, a medium-seed red-sensitive silver halide emulsion sublayer and a high-speed red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer provided in this order from the support, and sensitivities S.sub.600, S.sub.620, S.sub.640, S.sub.660 and S.sub.680 of the medium speed red-sensitive emulsion sublayer which are each determined as reciprocal of the exposure amount of light of wavelength of 600 nm, 620 nm, 640 nm, 660 nm and 680 nm necessary for forming an image having a density of fog+0.1 in the medium speed red-sensitive emulsion sublayer, respectively, satisfy the following relation;0.5S.sub.640 <S.sub.600 < 0.9S.sub.640,0.7S.sub.640 <S.sub.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 1991Date of Patent: November 2, 1993Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Atsuo Ezaki, Katsutoyo Suzuki, Hiroshi Ikeda
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Patent number: 5240824Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed which comprises a support and, provided thereon, a silver halide emulsion layer comprising silver halide grains having a surface phase and an internal phase adjacent to said surface phase. The internal phase has a thickness of 100 .ANG., and the silver iodide content of the surface phase is higher than that of the internal phase.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 1991Date of Patent: August 31, 1993Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Takada, Syoji Matsuzaka, Hideaki Haraga, Atsuo Ezaki, Koji Tashiro
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Patent number: 5223871Abstract: A camera unit is disclosed. The camera unit is packed in the form of a product comprising a camera and a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material loaded beforehand in the camera. The camera comprises a lens having a focal length of not more than 23 mm, and the light-sensitive material has an ISO speed of not less than 300 and at least one of the emulsion layers of said light-sensitive material has a specified shape in the photographic characteristic curve thereof.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 1992Date of Patent: June 29, 1993Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Masaru Iwagaki, Atsuo Ezaki, Kazuo Todo
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Patent number: 5212054Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material of which the color reproducibility and printing suitability are kept improved against the variation of photographing conditions, such as a change in light source, is disclosed. The photographic material comprises a support and provided thereon a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein at least one of said emulsion layers is of three-layer structure comprising a low-speed elemental emulsion layer, a medium-speed elemental emulsion layer and a high speed emulsion layer arranged in this sequence from the side facing the support, and a maximum color density of said medium-speed emulsion layer is not more than 0.35.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 1991Date of Patent: May 18, 1993Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Koji Tashiro, Hideaki Haraga, Atsuo Ezaki, Hiroshi Ideda, Katsutoyo Suzuki, Satoru Shimba, Miki Kon, Kenji Michiue, Yasushi Irie, Toshihiko Yagi, Syoji Matsuzaka, Keisuke Tobita
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Patent number: 5051345Abstract: A silver halide reversal photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed, which is improved in color reproducibility and gradation. The photographic material comprises a support having thereon a photographic component layers including at least two silver halide layers and a DIR layer. At least one of the emulsion layers comprises at least two silver halide emulsion layers which are substantially the same in color-sensitivity and different from each other in speed. The DIR layer contains a DIR compound and a silver halide emulsion and does not substantially contribute for any image formation.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 1990Date of Patent: September 24, 1991Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Hideaki Haraga, Masaru Iwagaki, Atsuo Ezaki
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Patent number: 4992357Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material having an excellent adhesion resistance and capable of preventing deterioration of quality of processed images is disclosed. The light-sensitive material having a support and provided thereon, the photographic component layers including each at least one red-sensitive layer comprising at least a masking cyan coupler, green-sensitive layer comprising at least a masking magenta coupler, and blue-sensitive layer, is characterized by that:A. an uppermost layer of said photographic component layers comprises an alkali-soluble matting agent,B. a total amount of coated silver is 15 to 45 mg/dm.sup.2.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 1989Date of Patent: February 12, 1991Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Yoshihiro Haga, Hiroshi Shimazaki, Atsuo Ezaki, Yoshiro Shigetomi
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Patent number: 4871658Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is disclosed which comprises a support coated with photographic layers including one or more silver halide emulsion layers, at least one of said silver halide emulsion layers containing silver halide grains with a silver iodide content of 3.0-15 mol %, and at least one of said photographic layers containing a compound represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## where Y is an aromatic group or a 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic group.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 1988Date of Patent: October 3, 1989Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Eiichi Sakamoto, Yutaka Kaneko, Hidetaka Ninomiya, Takashi Kamio, Atsuo Ezaki, Hideo Akamatsu, Hideaki Haraga
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Patent number: 4585733Abstract: A method of preparing a silver halide photographic emulsion comprising silver chloride as a principal component, which comprises adding to an aqueous solution of a hydrophilic colloid, an aqueous solution of a water-soluble silver salt and an aqueous solution of a water-soluble halide according to a simultaneous mixing method, and maintaining the rate of addition of the aqueous solution of a water-soluble silver salt and that of the aqueous solution of a water-soluble halide at a level not higher than the critical growth rate of silver halide grains and, at the same time, setting and maintaining the EAg value during the addition of the aqueous solution of a water-soluble silver salt and the aqueous solution of a water-soluble halide to a level not lower than 130 mV and not higher than 160 mV, said silver halide photographic emulsion being prepared in the presence of a water-soluble rhodium salt which is added during the course of emulsification and physical ripening of the emulsion.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 1984Date of Patent: April 29, 1986Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Ind. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Atsuo Ezaki, Morio Enomoto, Takehisa Kishita, Kazuo Takahashi
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Patent number: 4409322Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a silver halide emulsion layer and a protective layer on one side of the support and a non-photosensitive back layer on the other side of the support. The amount of silver halide in the emulsion layer is not more than 30 mg/dm.sup.2. A matting agent in indeterminate form is included in the protective layer and a substantially spherical matting agent is included in the back layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 1981Date of Patent: October 11, 1983Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Atsuo Ezaki, Takeshi Murakami
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Patent number: H1112Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material improved in graininess, comprising a support having thereon a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein at least one of the red-sensitive emulsion layer and the green-sensitive emulsion layer has the three-layered structure, in which the low speed silver halide emulsion layer, medium speed silver halide emulsion layer and high speed silver halide emulsion layer are coated on the support in this order; and the coating amount of silver in the layer increases in the order of the medium speed layer, low speed layer and high speed layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 1990Date of Patent: November 3, 1992Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Atsuo Ezaki, Keisuke Tobita, Hiroshi Ikeda, Hideaki Haraga