Developing Inhibitor Or Processing Ingredient Containing Patents (Class 430/505)
  • Patent number: 6824968
    Abstract: A silver halide color reversal photographic light-sensitive material comprising at least one interimage effect imparting layer (a) defined below and at least one interimage effect imparting layer (b) defined below, wherein, when the photographic light-sensitive material is exposed to light of a “skin color” having the spectral distribution of Table 1 described in the specification and is then subjected to development, a ratio of the chroma C*70 at a brightness L*=70 represented by CIE Lab color system to the chroma C*50 at a brightness L*=50, C*70/C*50, is 0.7 or more. (a) an interimage effect imparting layer containing a short-wavelength green-sensitive silver halide emulsion having a weight-averaged wavelength of a spectral sensitivity distribution of 500 to 560 nm; (b) an interimage effect imparting layer containing a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion having a weight-averaged wavelength of a spectral sensitivity distribution of 580 to 700 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2004
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yutaka Maeno, Sadanobu Shuto, Akihiro Kakinuma
  • Patent number: 6815153
    Abstract: This invention relates to a silver halide photographic element comprising a support bearing a cyan dye image-forming unit comprised of at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith at least one cyan dye-forming coupler, a magenta dye image-forming unit comprising at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith at least one magenta dye-forming coupler, and a yellow dye image-forming unit comprising at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith at least one yellow dye-forming coupler, wherein said photographic element has an ISO speed rating of 800 or greater and has an integrated RMS green granularity equal to or less than 11.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: James A. Friday, Roger A. Weiss, Anabisdally I. Bodden
  • Patent number: 6815152
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic photosensitive material comprising: a transmitting support; at least three types of photosensitive hydrophilic colloid layers disposed on the support, each type including at least one of a yellow, a magenta and a cyan color forming coupler; silver halide emulsion particles, which have a color sensitivity different from the other types, wherein at least one of the color sensitivities comprises green-sensitivity; and an Fe content of no more than 2×10−5 moles/m2; each silver halide emulsion particle including a halogen composition, which comprises at least one of silver chlorobromide, silver chloroiodide, silver chloroiodide bromide and silver chloride having a silver chloride content ratio of 95% by mole or more, an average sphere-equivalent particle diameter of the green-sensitive silver halogen emulsion particles comprising no more than 0.25 &mgr;m and at least one type of the green-sensitive silver halogen emulsion particles being doped with Ir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2004
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyohito Takada, Hidekazu Sakai, Terukazu Yanagi
  • Patent number: 6811963
    Abstract: This invention relates to a silver halide photographic element comprising a support bearing a cyan dye image-forming unit comprised of at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith at least one cyan dye-forming coupler, a magenta dye image-forming unit comprising at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith at least one magenta dye-forming coupler, and a yellow dye image-forming unit comprising at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith at least one yellow dye-forming coupler, wherein at least one of the dye image forming units contains layers of differing sensitivities, and the layer of highest sensitivity contains a development promoting agent or a specific coupler as described herein, or a combination thereof, and a silver halide emulsion comprising tabular silver halide grains having associated therewith at least two dye layers comprising (a) an inner dye layer adjacent to the silver ha
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Sharon G. Johnston, Stephen P. Singer, Drake M. Michno, James A. Friday, David R. Foster
  • Patent number: 6803180
    Abstract: An information recording material which contains a fluorine-containing nonionic surfactant, 1.5×10−5 mol/m2 or more of a polyvalent metal salt, and an anionic surfactant capable of forming a sparingly soluble salt in an aqueous solution with the polyvalent metal, in the outermost layer on a support on the side of an information recording layer. The information recording material is less in static charge and improved in surface deficiencies due to coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2004
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoaki Nagahara, Gen Hayashi
  • Publication number: 20040191706
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light sensitive material for image capture comprising a transparent substrate having on one surface thereof, a red light-sensitive layer unit, a green light-sensitive layer unit and a blue light-sensitive layer unit, each of the light-sensitive layer unit having at least 2 layers of the same spectral sensitivity but a different light sensitivity, and the specific photographic sensitivity of the light sensitive material is 320 or more,
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2004
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Applicant: KONIKA MINOLTA HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Masaru Iwagaki, Kuniaki Uezawa
  • Publication number: 20040185389
    Abstract: A photothermographic material of the present invention contains a slipping agent. One slipping agent is a liquid at a ordinary temperature, and an volatile rate of the slipping agent at 120° C. for one hour is 0.5% by mass or less as measured by a thermo-balance. The other slipping agent is that a permeating rate to the transportation rollers, when the transportation rollers are immersed in the slipping agent at 120° C. for 2 hours, is 6% by mass or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2004
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Yoshioka, Yoshihisa Tsukada, Takayoshi Oyamada, Minoru Sakai
  • Publication number: 20040185391
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light sensitive material for image capture comprising a transparent substrate having on one surface side thereof, a red light-sensitive layer unit, a green light-sensitive layer unit and a blue light-sensitive layer unit, each light-sensitive layer unit having at least 2 layers of the same spectral sensitivity having a different light sensitivity, and a specific photographic sensitivity of the light sensitive material is 50 or more,
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Applicant: KONICA MINOLTA HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Masaru Iwagaki, Tsukasa Ito
  • Patent number: 6790569
    Abstract: A color photothermographic element comprising at least three light-sensitive units which have their individual sensitivities in different wavelength regions, each of the units comprising at least one light-sensitive silver-halide emulsion, binder, and dye-providing coupler, and a blocked developer in the presence of a thermal solvent represented by the following structure: wherein the groups are as defined in the specification to promote the thermal development of the photothermographic element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Xiqiang Yang, Zbyslaw R. Owczarczyk, David T. Southby, Mark E. Irving, Paul B. Merkel, Lyn M. Irving, David H. Levy
  • Publication number: 20040175662
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic lightsensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least one lightsensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the lightsensitive material contains at least one compound represented by general formula (I) and at least one photographically useful group-releasing compound represented by general formula (II) or (III) that is capable of forming a compound having substantially no contribution to a dye after its coupling with an oxidized form of a developing agent:
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2003
    Publication date: September 9, 2004
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoichi Hosoya, Kiyoshi Morimoto, Tadashi Inaba
  • Patent number: 6783922
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a photographic material, comprising a photographic support and color sensitive recording layers on top of said support, said recording layers being separated from each other by interlayers, wherein the interlayers are characterized by the interlayer design parameter {[SC]*d2} (wherein [SC] is the concentration scavenger moieties bound to the water soluble polymer applied in the interlayer per gram total interlayer polymer and the dry thickness of the interlayer) having a value larger than 2.0*10−15 mmol m2/g and a maximum concentration [SC] of 0.5 mmol/g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2004
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film, B.V.
    Inventors: Sebastianus Gerardus J. M. Kluijtmans, Jan Bastiaan Bouwstra, Yuzo Toda
  • Patent number: 6783923
    Abstract: A silver halide color photosensitive material comprising at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, on a support. The photosensitive material has an indicated speed of 800 or higher, and an ISO speed of 1.25 times the indicated speed or higher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2004
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeichi Tatsuta, Yoichi Suga, Kohzaburoh Yamada
  • Patent number: 6780573
    Abstract: The invention relates to a color silver halide photographic element comprising a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, said silver halide emulsion being in reactive association with an amino acid compound according to Formula (I): wherein: COUP is a moiety that reacts with oxidized developer to release the amino acid timing group but does not substantially contribute any density in the visible region to the element after processing is complete; n is 0 or 1; R1 is an alkyl or alkenyl group of 4 carbon atoms or more or an aryl group with 10 carbon atoms or more; R2 is an alkyl or aryl group so the sum total of carbon atoms in R1 and R2 together are at least 5; and PUG is a photographically useful group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2004
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Stephen P. Singer, Christopher W. Grote, Robert C. Stewart, Janet N. Younathan, Jerrold N. Poslusny
  • Patent number: 6780575
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of scanning silver-halide-containing color photographic and photothermographic film. In particular, the present invention comprises record shifting by means by employing at least one infrared dye in a color unit of the film, thereby forming at least one image record in the infrared. This expedient leads to the formation of high quality images, especially when scanning photothermographic elements in which the silver halide, metallic silver, and/or any organic silver salts have not been removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2004
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Richard P. Szajewski
  • Publication number: 20040157175
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material, having at least one yellow dye image-forming layer, at least one magenta dye image-forming layer, and at least one cyan dye image-forming layer, each provided on a transparent support,
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Matsumoto, Shinichi Nakahira, Hidekazu Sakai
  • Publication number: 20040142288
    Abstract: This invention relates to a silver halide photographic element comprising a support bearing a cyan dye image-forming unit comprised of at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith at least one cyan dye-forming coupler, a magenta dye image-forming unit comprising at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith at least one magenta dye-forming coupler, and a yellow dye image-forming unit comprising at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith at least one yellow dye-forming coupler, wherein said photographic element has an ISO speed rating of 800 or greater and has an integrated RMS green granularity equal to or less than 11.2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2003
    Publication date: July 22, 2004
    Inventors: James A. Friday, Roger A. Weiss, Anabisdally I. Bodden
  • Patent number: 6756188
    Abstract: This invention relates to a photographic element comprising a support and at least two silver halide emulsion layers further comprising, an electron transfer agent releasing compound represented by the formula (I): CAR1—(L)n—ETA  (I) wherein: CAR1 is a carrier moiety which is capable of releasing —(L)n-ETA on reaction with oxidized developing agent; L is a divalent linking group, n is 0, 1 or 2; and ETA is a releasable 1-aryl-3-pyrazolidinone electron transfer agent having a calculated log partition coefficient (c log P) greater than or equal to 2.40 and the total sum of the Hammett sigma(para) values of the substituents on the 1-aryl ring is 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: John E. Keevert, Stephen P. Singer, Kenneth J. Reed, Kenneth J. Lushington, Mary C. Brick, James A. Friday
  • Patent number: 6750001
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is disclosed, comprising support having thereon a yellow image forming layer, a magenta image forming layer and a cyan image forming layer, each of which contains light sensitive silver, halide, wherein when the photographic material having been exposed to light for 10−10 to 10−3 sec. per pixel and processed, an effective tone range of a color image obtained in each of the color image forming layers is 0.65 to 0.84.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ikeda, Kazuhiro Miyazawa, Hirokazu Sato, Motoi Nishimura
  • Patent number: 6746834
    Abstract: A silver halide color reversal photographic material comprises, on a transparent support, at least one each of blue-, green-, and red-sensitive emulsion layer units. The lightsensitive material further has means for regulating an interimage effect. The red-sensitive unit satisfies the relation: 620 nm≦&lgr;rmax≦660 nm &lgr;rmax is the wavelength at which the maximum sensitivity of the spectral sensitivity distribution of the red-sensitive unit is given. The red- and green-sensitive units satisfy the relations: Sr(&lgr;rmax)−Sr(580)≦1.0 and −0.5≦Sr(580)−Sg(580)≦0.5 Sr(&lgr;rmax) is the maximum sensitivity of the red-sensitive unit, Sr(580) and Sg(580) are the sensitivity at 580 nm of the red- and green-sensitive unit, respectively. Magnitude of the interimage effect satisfies the relations: IIEgr≧0.15 and IIErg≧0.0 IIEgr is the magnitude of the interimage effect from the green- to red-sensitive units, and IIErg is that from the red- to green-sensitive units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2004
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masayuki Kuramitsu, Minoru Sato
  • Publication number: 20040101791
    Abstract: A silver halide color photosensitive material comprises at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one nonlight-sensitive layer. At least one of the nonlight-sensitive layers contains colloidal silver. The colloidal silver-containing nonlight-sensitive layer or a nonlight-sensitive layer adjacent to the colloidal silver-containing nonlight-sensitive layer contains a compound capable of releasing a development inhibitor or a precursor thereof by a coupling reaction with an oxidized developing agent. At least one layer selected from the group consisting of the light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and the nonlight-sensitive layer contains a compound (B), which is a compound having at least three hetero atoms and capable of enhancing the photographic speed of the photosensitive material in comparison to the same photosensitive materials without the compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2003
    Publication date: May 27, 2004
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshio Ishii, Koji Takaku
  • Patent number: 6740481
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprises at least one blue-sensitive emulsion layer (BL layer), at least one green-sensitive emulsion layer (GL layer) and at least one red-sensitive emulsion layer (RL layer) on a support. A maximum absorption wavelength of the green-sensitive emulsion layer represented by &lgr;max(G) is in the range of 500 nm≦&lgr;max(G)≦570 nm. The photographic material further has at least one short-wavelength-green-sensitive emulsion layer (CL layer) meeting the following requirements (i) and (ii): (i) a maximum absorption wavelength of the CL layer represented by &lgr;max(C) being in the range of 490 nm≦&lgr;max(C)≦560 nm, and 80 nm≧&lgr;max(G)−&lgr;max(C)≧5 nm, and (ii) the total iodine amount of silver halide grains contained in the CL layer being in the range from 60% to 300% of that contained in the green-sensitive emulsion layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuro Nagaoka, Minoru Sato
  • Publication number: 20040086811
    Abstract: A silver halide color photosensitive material has, on a support, a unit blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a unit green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a unit red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, each comprising two or more light-sensitive layers having the same color sensitivity but differing in speed to each other. The silver halide color photosensitive material contains at least one compound represented by the following general formula (I) or general formula (II); and at least one of the light-sensitive layers contains silver halide grains in which tabular grains each having an aspect ratio of 5.0 or more account for 60% or more of the total projected area of the silver halide grains.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2003
    Publication date: May 6, 2004
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fumitaka Ueda, Koji Takaku, Ryoji Nishimura, Keisuke Matsumoto, Yoshio Ishii
  • Publication number: 20040081927
    Abstract: A silver halide color reversal photographic light-sensitive material comprising at least one interimage effect imparting layer (a) defined below and at least one interimage effect imparting layer (b) defined below, wherein, when the photographic light-sensitive material is exposed to light of a “skin color” having the spectral distribution of Table 1 described in the specification and is then subjected to development, a ratio of the chroma C*70 at a brightness L*=70 represented by CIE Lab color system to the chroma C*50 at a brightness L*=50, C*70/C*50, is 0.7 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2003
    Publication date: April 29, 2004
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD
    Inventors: Yutaka Maeno, Sadanobu Shuto, Akihiro Kakinuma
  • Publication number: 20040058284
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material, having at least one each of blue-, green-, and red-sensitive emulsion layers containing yellow, magenta, and cyan couplers, respectively, on a support;
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2003
    Publication date: March 25, 2004
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yoneyama, Akira Ikeda, Shin Soejima, Kiyoshi Takeuchi, Naoto Matsuda
  • Publication number: 20040038158
    Abstract: An image forming method including a step of imagewise exposing a silver halide color photographic photosensitive material having, on a support, photographic constituent layers including at least one blue sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one green sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one red sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and at least one non-photosensitive hydrophilic colloid layer, a color developing step, a bleach-fixing step and a rinsing step. At least one of the at least one red sensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains at least one compound represented by the following general formula (IA) and/or at least one coupler represented by the following general formulae (PTA-I) and (PTA-II).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shin Soejima, Kentaro Okazaki
  • Patent number: 6696232
    Abstract: A color negative photographic film element for producing a color image suited for conversion to an electronic form and subsequent reconversion into a viewable form: said element comprising a support and, coated on the support, a plurality of hydrophilic colloid layers, including radiation-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers, forming layer units for separately recording blue, green, and red exposures, each of the layer units containing dye image-forming coupler chosen to produce image dye having an absorption half-peak bandwidth lying in a different spectral region in each layer unit, WHEREIN the element comprises a development inhibitor releasing compound in at least one layer unit, at least one of the layer units contains two or more emulsion layers differing in sensitivity, the layer units each exhibit a dye image gamma of less than 1.0, the element exhibits an exposure latitude of at least 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Allan F. Sowinski
  • Patent number: 6689551
    Abstract: Disclosed is a photographic element comprising a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a phenolic “NB magenta coupler” having the formula: wherein: the term “NB magenta coupler” represents a coupler of formula (I) that forms a magenta dye with the developer 4-amino-3-methyl-N-ethyl-N-(2-methanesulfonamidoethyl) aniline sesquisulfate hydrate for which the maximum absorption of the dye upon spin coating is in the range of from 520 to 590 nm and the left bandwidth (LBW) or the right bandwidth (RBW) using spin-coating, is at least 5 nm less than that of the same dye in solution form; R1 is a heterocyclic, carbocyclic, or alkenyl group with substituents of sufficient electron withdrawing capacity to obtain a spin-coated dye as described in the preceding subparagraph that exhibits a maximum absorption in the range of 520-590 nm; Y is H or a coupling-off group; each Z* is an independently selected substituent group where p is independen
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: William J. Begley, Gary M. Russo, Mathilde R. Triguel
  • Publication number: 20040023165
    Abstract: A silver halide color photosensitive material for being subjected to a color development within nine seconds of being imagewise exposed, and comprising a support and a photograph constitution layer provided on the support, the photograph constitution layer containing at least one layer that comprises a yellow dye-forming coupler, at least one layer that comprises a magenta dye-forming coupler, at least one layer that comprises a cyan dye-forming coupler, and at least one non-photosensitive hydrophilic colloid layer. The coupler-comprising layers respectively include silver halide emulsions, and at least one of the silver halide emulsions has the characteristics of: (i) a silver halide content of 90 mol % or more; and (ii) containing at least one specific metal complexes. The color development is preferably completed within 28 seconds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoto Oshima, Tadanobu Sato, Akito Yokozawa
  • Publication number: 20040023171
    Abstract: A print material having a support, at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one cyan coupler, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one magenta coupler and at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one yellow coupler, characterised in that the red-sensitive layer contains at least one oil former, the cyan coupler is of the formula 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Applicant: Agfa-Gevaert N.V. (Belgium)
    Inventors: Ralf Weimann, Markus Geiger, Cuong Ly, Klaus Sinzger, Beate Weber, Heinz Wiesen
  • Publication number: 20040023172
    Abstract: A colour photographic print material having at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one cyan coupler, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one magenta coupler and at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one yellow coupler, characterised in that the cyan coupler is of the formula 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Applicant: Agfa-Gevaert
    Inventors: Ralf Weimann, Markus Geiger, Axel Jochum
  • Patent number: 6686138
    Abstract: A silver halide light sensitive motion picture photographic print element comprising a support having a front side and a back side and bearing on the front side thereof in order a yellow dye image-forming unit comprising at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith at least one yellow dye-forming coupler, a cyan dye image-forming unit comprised of at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith at least one cyan dye-forming coupler, and a magenta dye image-forming unit comprising at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith at least one magenta dye-forming coupler; said element further comprising an antistatic layer containing vanadium pentoxide on either side of the support, and a raw stock keeping stabilizer compound present in at least one emulsion layer or a hydrophilic colloid layer in reactive association with at least one emulsion layer, wherein the stabilizer compound comprises Au2S or
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2004
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Kathleen R. C. Gisser
  • Patent number: 6686137
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material, which has, on a reflective support, at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan dye-forming coupler, at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta dye-forming coupler, at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow dye-forming coupler, and at least one light-insensitive layer, wherein oil droplets containing a dispersion of at least one blue pigment are dispersed in at least one layer of the layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2004
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Osamu Takahashi, Yoshiharu Yabuki
  • Patent number: 6686136
    Abstract: A color negative photographic element especially suited for preloading in a one-time-use camera is disclosed. The element is capable of producing images that, when developed, converted to electronic form, and then converted to a viewable form, exhibit excellent color, reduced granularity, and improved sharpness. The photographic elements contain blue, green, and red recording layer units capable of forming spectrally differentiated dye images. The layer units are substantially free of colored masking coupler, and each exhibits a dye image gamma of less than 1.5. The element exhibits an exposure latitude of at least 2.7 log E. The gamma ratios of the blue, green, and red recording layer units are between 0.80 and 1.2. Chemical processing of the element is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2004
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Allan F. Sowinski, Richard P. Szajewski, Lois A. Buitano, Frank R. Brockler, John D. Buhr
  • Publication number: 20040018455
    Abstract: A colour photographic print material having at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one cyan coupler, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one magenta coupler and at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one yellow coupler, characterised in that the magenta coupler is of the formula 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2003
    Publication date: January 29, 2004
    Inventors: Markus Geiger, Axel Jochum, Ralf Weimann
  • Publication number: 20040002023
    Abstract: A color negative photographic film element for producing a color image suited for conversion to an electronic form and subsequent reconversion into a viewable form:
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2001
    Publication date: January 1, 2004
    Applicant: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Allan F. Sowinski
  • Publication number: 20030224304
    Abstract: A silver halide color reversal photographic lightsensitive material comprising a support and, superimposed thereon, at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, the red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having a weight-averaged wavelength (&lgr;ra) of spectral sensitivity distribution satisfying the relationship: 600 nm<&lgr;ra<625 nm, which silver halide color reversal photographic lightsensitive material contains at least one interimage effect intensifying layer substantially not forming any image, the interimage effect intensifying layer containing:
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2003
    Publication date: December 4, 2003
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yutaka Maeno
  • Patent number: 6653061
    Abstract: The invention relates to a photographic label comprising a pragmatic polymer sheet, at least one layer comprising at least one image forming layer comprising photosensitive silver halide grains and dye forming coupler above said pragmatic polymer sheet, wherein said at least one image forming layer has an exposure time to obtain a usable Dmax of 1.5 of less than 0.01 seconds, wherein said at least one image forming layer is substantially free of image dye stabilizers, and wherein said polymer sheet has an L* of greater than 95.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: John B. Rieger, Robert P. Bourdelais
  • Patent number: 6645710
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising, on a support, a unit blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, unit green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and unit red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, each of which includes not less than two color-sensitive layers differing in sensitivity, wherein tabular grains having an aspect ratio of not less than 5.0 account for not less than 60% of the total projected area of silver halide grains contained in an emulsion layer having the highest sensitivity in each unit color-sensitive layer, and a grain number indicated by specific equation is not more than 1.00.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Inventors: Ryoji Nishimura, Yasushi Nozawa
  • Publication number: 20030207219
    Abstract: The invention relates to a photographic element comprising at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a heterocyclic magenta or cyan dye-forming coupler of formula (I), 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2003
    Publication date: November 6, 2003
    Inventors: Philip A. Allway, Paul L. Stanley
  • Patent number: 6641988
    Abstract: A photographic element is disclosed, comprising a yellow dye forming coupler, a magenta dye forming coupler and a cyan dye forming coupler, wherein spectral reflection absorption characteristics of a yellow dye, a magenta dye and a cyan dye which are formed of the yellow dye forming coupler, the magenta dye forming coupler and the cyan dye forming coupler, respectively, meet the following requirements: 110≧&lgr;max(M)−&lgr;max(Y)≧95, 80≧&lgr;max(C)−&lgr;max(M)≧70, 0.43≧Abs600(M)≧0.38, and 0.48≧Abs550(C)≧0.35.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventor: Takeshi Hakii
  • Patent number: 6641987
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material including at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer on a support, and having an ISO sensitivity of 640 or more, wherein the material exhibits a color saturation evaluation value &eegr;, represented by equation (I) below, of −15 dB or more. &eegr;=10 log(1/VT) [VT=(⅙)×((62−Y1)2+(62−Y2)2+(62−Y3)2+(62−Y4)2+(62−Y5)2+(62−Y6)2)]  (I) In Formula (I), each of Y1 to Y6 is a value obtained by exposing 12 colors of a Macbeth color chart with six exposure amounts, from −1 under to +4 over, measuring the saturation of each resultant color, and averaging the data (chroma values) for a corresponding exposure amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoichi Suga, Hideto Ikoma, Jun Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20030203326
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic photosensitive material comprising: a transmitting support; at least three types of photosensitive hydrophilic colloid layers disposed on the support, each type including at least one of a yellow, a magenta and a cyan color forming coupler; silver halide emulsion particles, which have a color sensitivity different from the other types, wherein at least one of the color sensitivities comprises green-sensitivity; and an Fe content of no more than 2×10−5 moles/m2; each silver halide emulsion particle including a halogen composition, which comprises at least one of silver chlorobromide, silver chloroiodide, silver chloroiodide bromide and silver chloride having a silver chloride content ratio of 95% by mole or more, an average sphere-equivalent particle diameter of the green-sensitive silver halogen emulsion particles comprising no more than 0.25 &mgr;m and at least one type of the green-sensitive silver halogen emulsion particles being doped with Ir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2002
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyohito Takada, Hidekazu Sakai, Terukazu Yanagi
  • Patent number: 6627375
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is disclosed, comprising a support having provided thereon at least a silver halide emulsion layer, which contains at least one compound represented by the following formula (I), and has a characteristic curve of gamma value being 5.0 or more in optical density of from 0.3 to 3.0 on the characteristic curve shown on the orthogonal axis of coordinates having equal unit length expressed by logarithmic exposure amount (x axis) and optical density (y axis): (X)l—(L)m—(A—B)n  (I) wherein X represents a silver halide-adsorptive group having at least one of N, S, P, Se and Te atom, or a light absorptive group; L represents a divalent linking group having at least one of C, N, S and O atom; A represents an electron donative group; B represents a releasing group or a hydrogen atom, which forms radical A. by releasing or deproton after oxidation; l and m each represents an integer of from 0 to 3; and n represents 1 or 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shoji Yasuda
  • Publication number: 20030180671
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon a yellow image forming layer, a magenta image forming layer and a cyan image forming layer, each of which contains light sensitive silver halide, wherein when the photographic material having been exposed to light for 10−10 to 10−3 sec. per pixel and processed, an effective tone range of a color image obtained in each of the color image forming layers is 0.65 to 0.84.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2002
    Publication date: September 25, 2003
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ikeda, Kazuhiro Miyazawa, Hirokazu Sato, Motoi Nishimura
  • Patent number: 6620580
    Abstract: Disclosed is a photographic element comprising a support bearing a blue light sensitive record containing at least three layers having different levels of light sensitivity arranged in the order slowest to fastest with the slowest layer closest to the support and the fastest layer closest to the light exposure source, wherein (a) all of the blue-sensitive layers are closer to the light exposure source than the layers sensitive to any other color; (b) the slowest blue light sensitive layer is at least 1.0 log E slower than the next fastest blue light sensitive layer when measured at a density of 0.15 above Dmin, and contains a particular type of cyan dye-forming development inhibitor releasing (DIR) coupler; and (c) all of the blue light sensitive layers other than the slowest blue light sensitive layer independently contain a certain type of yellow dye-forming DIR coupler. Embodiments of the invention provide improved color rendition without sacrificing blue density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2003
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Norma B. Platt, Drake M. Michno
  • Patent number: 6620562
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of scanning silver-halide-containing color photographic and photothermographic film. In particular, the present invention comprises a photographic element comprising at least one infrared imaging dye-forming agent in a blue-sensitive color layer of the element, thereby forming at least one image record in the infrared region of the imagewise exposed and developed element. This expedient leads to the formation of high quality images when scanning photographic elements in which the silver halide, metallic silver, and/or any organic silver salts have not been removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2003
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: James H. Reynolds, David H. Levy, Robert W. Kulpinski, Leif P. Olson, Wojciech K. Slusarek
  • Publication number: 20030170574
    Abstract: The invention relates to a photographic label comprising a pragmatic polymer sheet, at least one layer comprising at least one image forming layer comprising photosensitive silver halide grains and dye forming coupler above said pragmatic polymer sheet, wherein said at least one image forming layer has an exposure time to obtain a usable Dmax of 1.5 of less than 0.01 seconds, wherein said at least one image forming layer is substantially free of image dye stabilizers, and wherein said polymer sheet has an L* of greater than 95.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Publication date: September 11, 2003
    Applicant: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: John B. Rieger, Robert P. Bourdelais
  • Patent number: 6613502
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material having at least one blue-sensitive emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive emulsion layer, and at least one red-sensitive emulsion layer on a transparent support, wherein the transparent support is a plastic support having two surfaces undercoated with an undercoat solution containing at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a water-miscible organic solvent except for alcohols, a substituted phenol having a molecular weight of 200 or less, and a substituted acetic acid in which at least one hydrogen atom on a methyl group of acetic acid is substituted with a halogen atom, and at least one photosensitive emulsion layer contains a specific coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoto Matsuda, Hisashi Mikoshiba
  • Patent number: 6613501
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is disclosed comprising a blue-sensitive silver halide unit containing a yellow coupler, a green-sensitive silver halide unit containing magenta coupler, and a red-sensitive silver halide unit containing a cyan coupler, wherein a coefficient of utilization of an oxidation product of a color developing agent in a maximum density area of the blue-sensitive unit is not less than 80%, that of the green-sensitive unit is 30 to 75% and that of the red-sensitive unit is not less than 80%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Fumie Fukazawa, Tsukasa Ito
  • Patent number: 6610466
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic lightsensitive material comprising at least one silver halide photographic emulsion layer containing a silver halide photographic emulsion prepared by mixing a dispersion of silver halide grains, the silver halide grains exhibiting such spectral absorption maximum wavelength and light absorption intensity that, when the spectral absorption maximum wavelength is less than 500 nm, the light absorption intensity is 60 or more, while when the spectral absorption maximum wavelength is 500 nm or more, the light absorption intensity is 100 or more, with an emulsified dispersion, wherein the silver halide photographic emulsion, when agitated at 40° C. for 30 min, exhibits a variation of absorption spectrum integrated intensity ranging from 400 nm to 700 nm of 10% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2003
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masami Sakurada, Kiyoshi Morimoto, Fumitaka Ueda, Toru Yamada