Heterocyclic Coupler Patents (Class 430/558)
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Patent number: 6451517Abstract: A silver halide color photographic lightsensitive material includes at least one emulsion layer on a support. At least one of the emulsion layers contains a coupler represented by formula (1) below and a coupler represented by formula (2) below at a molar ratio of 1:9 to 9:1. In formulas (1) and (2), each of R1, R2, R3, and R4 independently represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent. Each of X1 and X2 represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable splitting off by coupling with the oxidized form of a developing agent. At least one of X1 and X2 is a hydrogen atom.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2000Date of Patent: September 17, 2002Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Fukuzawa, Hisashi Mikoshiba, Yoshio Shimura
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Patent number: 6444412Abstract: The invention relates to a photographic element comprising a light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith one or more dye-forming couplers and a stabilizer compound of formula (I): wherein R1 and R2 are independently selected from hydrogen or an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, aryl, alkoxy, aryloxy or amino group or may combine to complete a 5-10 membered heterocyclic ring which may contain in addition to the silicon atom one or more heteroatoms selected from nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur, which ring is unsubstituted or substituted; each Z independently represents the atoms necessary to complete a substituted or unsubstituted arene or heteroaromatic ring system; X is a single bond or a linking group having a single atom which connects the arene rings or heteroaromatic ring systems; or X forms, together with substituents ortho to X on the arene rings or heteroaromatic ring systems, a fused unsubstituted or substituted 5-, 6- or 7-membered ring, which may contType: GrantFiled: August 21, 2001Date of Patent: September 3, 2002Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: David Clarke, Llewellyn J. Leyshon, Christopher P. Moore
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Patent number: 6440650Abstract: A silver halide color reversal photosensitive material comprising 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, and capable of forming a color image when the photosensitive material was subjected to color development in the presence of an aromatic primary amine color developing agent after the photosensitive material was subjected to first development of black-and-white development, wherein the silver halide content in the photosensitive material before the first development is 2.5 to 6.0 g in terms of silver per m2 of the photosensitive material, the silver halide content in an unexposed portion of the photosensitive material immediately before the color development is 1.0 to 2.5 g in terms of silver per m2 of the photosensitive material, and the maximum density of each of cyan, magenta, and yellow in the color image after the color development is 3.0 or more.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2000Date of Patent: August 27, 2002Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoto Matsuda, Hisashi Mikoshiba
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Publication number: 20020115029Abstract: A silver halide color photographic lightsensitive material comprising at least one layer on a support, wherein the at least one layer contains a coupler represented by formula (I) below 1Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2001Publication date: August 22, 2002Inventors: Yasuhiro Kato, Hisashi Mikoshiba, Naoto Matsuda, Tetsuro Kojima
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Patent number: 6436623Abstract: A colour photographic silver halide material having a support and at least one photo-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer which is associated with a cyan coupler of the formula (I): in which R1, R2, R3, Z1, Y1 and n have the meaning stated in the description, is distinguished by elevated dye stability of the dye produced from the coupler by chromogenic processing.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2001Date of Patent: August 20, 2002Assignee: Agfa-GevaertInventors: Jörg Hagemann, Jan Haller, Günter Helling
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Patent number: 6426178Abstract: The invention relates to a photographic element for forming neutral images comprising a cyan dye-forming coupler, a magenta dye-forming coupler of formula wherein Ra and Rb represents H or a substituent; X is hydrogen or a coupling-off group; Za, Zb, and Zc are a substituted methine group, ═N—, ═C—, or —NH—; and yellow dye-forming coupler of formula, wherein R5 is an alkoxy group with more than one carbon atom, aryloxy, anilino, arylthio, alkylthio, or dialkylamino groups linked to the anilide phenyl ring by oxygen, sulfur or nitrogen; R6 is selected from hydrogen, halogen, alkoxycarbonyl(—CO2R), carbamoyl(—CONRR′), carbonamido(—NRCOR′), sulfonate(—OSO2R), sulfamoyl (—SO2NRR′), sulfonamido(—NRSO2R′), or sulfonyl(—SO2R); R and R′ may be hydrogen, alkyl or aryl groups; q is 1 to 4; R7 is alkyl, cyclic, or multicyclic alky, aryl, heterocyclic, heteroaromatic, andType: GrantFiled: August 7, 2000Date of Patent: July 30, 2002Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Michael R. Roberts, Kurt M. Schroeder, Frank D. Coms
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Publication number: 20020098449Abstract: A photothermographic material comprising at least (a) a photosensitive silver halide, (b) a reducible silver salt, (c) a reducing compound represented by the following formula (1) or (2), (d) a binder and (e) a coupler compound on the same side of a support: 1Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2001Publication date: July 25, 2002Inventors: Toyohisa Oya, Kazunobu Katoh, Shigeo Hirano
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Patent number: 6423484Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material which excels in a color reproduction and an image fastness and which has an excellent color developability. The above silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprises a support and provided thereon a yellow color-developing light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a magenta color-developing light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a cyan color-developing light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer each having a different color-sensitivity, wherein the above magenta color-developing light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains at least one of the non-diffusible dye-forming couplers represented by the following Formula (M), a high boiling organic solvent having a dielectric constant of 6.0 or less and a refraction index of 1.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2000Date of Patent: July 23, 2002Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhiro Yoshioka, Takehiko Sato, Osamu Takahashi, Toshio Kawagishi, Kozo Sato, Yuki Mizukawa
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Patent number: 6416943Abstract: The invention provides a color photographic element suitable for forming both a colored dye image and a neutral silver-based image, comprising a support bearing at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a coupler capable of forming a colored dye upon development, and bearing a further light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a coupler which is capable of releasing a thiovinyl group upon development that is capable of reacting to form a neutral silver-based image.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2000Date of Patent: July 9, 2002Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Robert F. Romanet, Susan D. Hill, Stephen P. Singer, Anabisdally I. Bodden
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Patent number: 6416941Abstract: A color photographic element comprises a support and at least one dye image forming layer unit comprising gelatin-peptized radiation-sensitive silver halide grains, a fragmentable electron donating compound; and an electron transfer agent releasing compound.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 1999Date of Patent: July 9, 2002Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Kenneth J. Reed, Annabel A. Muenter, Sharon R. Lunt, David T. Southby
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Publication number: 20020081540Abstract: A silver halide color photosensitive material comprising each at least one blue-, green-, and red-sensitive emulsion layer on a support.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2001Publication date: June 27, 2002Applicant: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hisashi Mikoshiba, Yoshio Shimura, Naoto Matsuda
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Patent number: 6410216Abstract: Method of forming a photographic color image which comprises imagewise exposing a photographic silver halide color material and processing it with an alkaline processing solution in the presence of a sulphonhydrazide color developing agent and a 3-pyridinol color coupler optionally containing in the 2-position a ballasting group of such size and configuration as to render the coupler non-diffusible in photographic materials thus forming a dye image by reaction of the oxidized color developing agent and the color coupler.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 1994Date of Patent: June 25, 2002Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: David Clarke, Paul Louis Reginald Stanley
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Publication number: 20020076664Abstract: Pyrrolotriazole compounds of the formula (I) and silver halide color photographic light-sensitive materials containing the compound as a cyan coupler, are disclosed: 1Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2001Publication date: June 20, 2002Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.Inventors: Takeshi Nakamine, Yasuaki Deguchi
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Publication number: 20020076661Abstract: The present invention provides a system of a digital color proof in which consistent images are obtained while minimizing density variation in spite of various variations of conditions due to the use of a silver halide light-sensitive color material, specifically, the present invention provides a method for forming proof images similar to printed images in terms of various characteristics such as the paper quality of silver halide light-sensitive materials, the dot gain, and the density.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2001Publication date: June 20, 2002Applicant: KONICA CORPORATIONInventors: Tomonori Kawamura, Shigeo Tanaka, Satoshi Nishino, Hirohide Ito, Naohito Naraoka, Naoyo Suzuki, Shinya Watanabe, Masataka Takimoto, Hideaki Sakata, Junichi Tanabe, Tetsuya Taniguchi, Naoki Nozaki, Yasushi Okubo, Koji Daifuku, Katsuji Kondo, Toshitsugu Suzuki
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Patent number: 6399291Abstract: A silver halide color photographic lightsensitive material contains a coupler represented by formula (I) below in at least one layer on a support (in this formula, X represents a hydrogen atom or a group which can split off by a coupling reaction with an oxidized form of an aromatic primary amine color developing agent, each of R1 and R2 represents an electron-attracting group having a Hammett's substituent constant &sgr;p value of 0.20 or more, and the sum of the &sgr;p values of R1 and R2 is 0.65 or more, and each of G1 and G2 represents a nitrogen atom or a substituent). A pyrrolotriazble compound represented by formula (I) below is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2000Date of Patent: June 4, 2002Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Keiichi Tateishi, Hisashi Mikoshiba, Naoto Matsuda
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Publication number: 20020064736Abstract: A dye-forming coupler of the formula (I). A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material that contains at least one dye-forming coupler of the formula (I).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2001Publication date: May 30, 2002Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.Inventors: Shigeki Uehira, Jun Ogasawara, Kiyoshi Takeuchi, Yasuhiro Shimada, Yasuaki Deguchi
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Patent number: 6391533Abstract: A silver halide color photosensitive material comprising each at least one blue-, green-, and red-sensitive emulsion layer on a support.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2001Date of Patent: May 21, 2002Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hisashi Mikoshiba, Yoshio Shimura, Naoto Matsuda
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Publication number: 20020058212Abstract: The invention relates to a photographic element comprising a light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith one or more dye-forming couplers and a stabilizer compound of formula (I): 1Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2001Publication date: May 16, 2002Applicant: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: David Clarke, Llewellyn J. Leyshon, Christopher P. Moore
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Patent number: 6383728Abstract: A color photographic silver halide material having a support and at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer which is associated with a cyan coupler of the formula (I): in which R1, R2, R3, Z1, Y1 and n have the meaning stated in the description, is distinguished by elevated dye stability of the dye produced from the coupler by chromogenic processing.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2000Date of Patent: May 7, 2002Assignee: Agfa-GevaertInventors: Jörg Hagemann, Jan Haller, Günter Helling
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Publication number: 20020051948Abstract: A silver halide color photographic lightsensitive material comprising at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer on a support, wherein the emulsion layer contains a magenta coupler represented by formula (M-1) below: 1Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2001Publication date: May 2, 2002Inventors: Hisashi Mikoshiba, Yoshio Shimura, Naoto Matsuda, Hiroshi Fukuzawa
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Patent number: 6379878Abstract: A silver halide color photosensitive 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 support, wherein the red-sensitive emulsion layer has the maximum value of sensitivity in a wavelength region of 580 nm to 650 nm, and the green-sensitive emulsion layer contains at least one magenta coupler represented by formula (MC-1) below: wherein the substituent are defined herein the specification.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2000Date of Patent: April 30, 2002Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoto Matsuda, Yoshio Shimura, Tetsuo Nakamura, Hisashi Mikoshiba
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Patent number: 6376166Abstract: A heat-developable photosensitive material which comprises, on the same side of a support, at least (a) a photosensitive silver halide, (b) a reducible silver salt, (c) a phenol compound represented by the following general formula (1), (d) a binder, and (e) a coupler compound: wherein V1 to V8 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a functional group; L represents a bridging group consisting of —CH(V9)— or —S—; V9 represents a hydrogen atom or a functional group. The heat-developable photosensitive material causes extremely low fog and is suitable for photomechanical reproduction.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2000Date of Patent: April 23, 2002Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toyohisa Oya, Katsuyuki Watanabe, Masaru Takasaki, Minoru Sakai
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Publication number: 20020039709Abstract: A silver halide color photographic lightsensitive material comprises a support and a silver halide emulsion layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2001Publication date: April 4, 2002Inventors: Hisashi Mikoshiba, Hiroshi Fukuzawa, Naoto Matsuda
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Publication number: 20020031736Abstract: A pyrrolotriazole compound of the following formula (I), and a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material containing the pyrrolotriazole compound as a cyan coupler: 1Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2001Publication date: March 14, 2002Inventors: Takeshi Nakamine, Nobuo Seto, Hideaki Sato, Yasuaki Deguchi
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Publication number: 20020025497Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material has a red-, green-, and blue-sensitive emulsion layer in this order from the side closest to a support.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2001Publication date: February 28, 2002Inventors: Naoto Matsuda, Hisashi Mikoshiba
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Patent number: 6348306Abstract: Disclosed is a photographic element comprising a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith (a) a pyrazolotriazole dye-forming coupler; (b) a cyclic aminosulfone first stabilizer; and (c) a sulfonamide compound co-stabilizer free of aromatic substituents and having a melting point of less than 150° C. The image dye formed by the coupler exhibits improved dye light stability.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2000Date of Patent: February 19, 2002Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Albert J. Mura, Jr., Shari L. Eiff, Gary M. Russo
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Publication number: 20020018973Abstract: A coupler represented by the following formula (I), and a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material containing the coupler: 1Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2001Publication date: February 14, 2002Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideaki Satoh, Takeshi Nakamine, Nobuo Seto, Hiroyuki Yoneyama, Yasuhiro Shimada
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Patent number: 6322959Abstract: A silver halide color photographic lightsensitive material comprises a support and, superimposed thereon, a yellow color-forming blue-sensitive emulsion layer, a magenta color-forming green-sensitive emulsion layer containing a magenta coupler represented by a general formula (MC-1): and a cyan color-forming red-sensitive emulsion layer containing a cyan coupler represented by a general formula (NC-1):Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2000Date of Patent: November 27, 2001Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Naoto Matsuda
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Patent number: 6312880Abstract: The invention relates to a multilayer photographic element comprising a reflective support wherein the color record 1 adjacent to the support comprises at least one light sensitive layer and a non-light sensitive dye-forming interlayer; and wherein color record 2 above said color record 1 comprises at least one light sensitive layer and at least two non-light sensitive dye-forming interlayers and wherein color record 3 above said color record 2 comprises at least one light sensitive layer and a non-light sensitive dye-forming interlayer; and a top overcoat layer comprising gelatin and ultraviolet absorbing material; and wherein each interlayer is substantially scavenger free, and color records 1, 2, and 3 comprise silver halide grains comprising greater than 90% silver chloride, and wherein the reciprocity characteristics of the silver halide grains are such that for a separation exposure of 1 microsecond and 0.4 sec, at least one color record develops to a density of at least 2.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 1999Date of Patent: November 6, 2001Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Michael R. Roberts, Hwei-Ling Yau, Glenn M. Brown
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Patent number: 6309813Abstract: Disclosed is a photographic element comprising a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing an azopyrazolone masking coupler and a monosubstituted quinone of formula I: wherein R is selected from the group consisting of alkyl, aryl, alkoxy, aryloxy, alkylthio, arylthio, sulfinyl, sulfonyl,sulfamoyl, halogen, cyano, thiol, hydroxy, nitro, acyloxy, sulfonyloxy, heterocyclic, carboxylic acid, carboxylate, carbamoyl, amino, carbonamido and sulfonamido groups.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2000Date of Patent: October 30, 2001Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Janet N. Younathan, Daniel L. Kapp, Stephen P. Singer, David R. Foster
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Publication number: 20010031433Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a support, said at least one emulsion layer containing a magenta coupler represented by formula (M-1): 1Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2001Publication date: October 18, 2001Inventors: Yoshio Shimura, Hiroshi Fukuzawa, Hisashi Mikoshiba
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Patent number: 6303261Abstract: Disclosed are a silver halide color photographic material having on a support a photographic element in which silver halide grains, a developing agent and a coupler capable of forming a dye by reaction with an oxidation product of the developing agent are incorporated, the photographic element further comprising at least one color stain inhibitive compound represented by the following formula (SC-1) or (SC-2) and at least one photographically useful group-releasing compound represented by the following formula (II); and a method of forming color images by the use of the foregoing material: A—[(L1)a—(B)m]p—(L2)n—PUG (II)Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2000Date of Patent: October 16, 2001Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun Arakawa, Toshio Kawagishi
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Patent number: 6296997Abstract: Disclosed is a photographic element comprising a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a bicyclic azole dye-forming coupler compound having Formula I: wherein: BA represents a bicyclic azole coupler nucleus with —(C(R1)(R2))P— bonded to a ring carbon in a non-coupling position of the coupler nucleus; p is 1 or 2, and each R1 and R2 is independently selected from H and a substituent group, provided that any two of R1 and R2 may join to form a ring; Ra and Rb are each independently selected from H and a substituent group, provided that substituent groups may join to form a ring; each Y is an independently selected substituent and m is 0-4; X is selected from the group consisting of —C(O)—, —S(O)2—, —S(O)—, and —P(O)(OH)—; W is a connecting group having a chain of up to four atoms between X and Z, and n=0 or 1; and a) when n=0, Z is —NHR5 where R5 is H or a substituent, andType: GrantFiled: November 7, 2000Date of Patent: October 2, 2001Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Robert F. Romanet, William B. Vreeland, John W. Harder, Christopher T. Brown, Scott R. Conley, Michael P. Youngblood
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Patent number: 6291152Abstract: Disclosed is a photographic element comprising a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a bicyclic azole dye-forming coupler, having appended to a ring carbon at a non-coupling position thereof a substituent group represented by the formula: wherein the arrow represents the point of attachment of the substituent group to a non-coupling position of the coupler; R1, R2, R3 and R4 are independently selected hydrogen or substituent groups, provided that any two of R1, R2, R3 and R4 may join to form a ring; Ra and Rb are independently hydrogen or a substituent; each Rc and Rd is an independently selected hydrogen or an alkyl or aryl group, provided that any two of them may join to form a ring and n is 1 to 10; Re is hydrogen or an alkyl or aryl group; each Y is an independently selected substituent group and m is from 0 to 4; and Z is a substituent selected from the group consisting of —C(O)R5, —S(O)2R5, —SOR5, —P(═O)(R6)2 and &Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2000Date of Patent: September 18, 2001Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Paul A. Burns, Robert F. Romanet, Susan M. Fischer, David G. Lincoln, Paul P. Spara
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Patent number: 6280916Abstract: The invention relates to a multilayer photographic element comprising a reflective support wherein the color record 1 adjacent to the support comprises at least one light sensitive layer and a non-light sensitive dye-forming interlayer; and wherein color record 2 above said color record 1 comprises at least one light sensitive layer and at least two non-light sensitive dye-forming interlayers and wherein color record 3 comprises at least one light sensitive layer and a non-light sensitive dye-forming interlayer; an optional UV dye containing interlayer; and top overcoat; and wherein each interlayer is substantially scavenger free, silver halide grains comprising greater than 90% silver chloride, and wherein the reciprocity characteristics of the silver halide grains are such that for a separation exposure of 1 microsecond and 0.4 sec, each color record develops to a density of at least 2.0 within a log exposure range of 1.2 or less relative to the exposure point producing a density 0.04 above Dmin.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 1999Date of Patent: August 28, 2001Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventor: Michael R. Roberts
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Publication number: 20010016304Abstract: A color photographic silver halide material having a support and at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer which is associated with a cyan coupler of the formula (I): 1Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2000Publication date: August 23, 2001Inventors: Jorg Hagemann, Jan Haller, Gunter Helling
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Patent number: 6268116Abstract: The invention relates to a multilayer photographic element comprising a reflective support wherein the color record 1 adjacent to the support comprises at least one light sensitive layer and a non-light sensitive dye-forming interlayer; and wherein color record 2 above said color record 1 comprises at least one light sensitive layer and at least two non-light sensitive dye-forming interlayers and wherein color record 3 comprises at least one light sensitive layer and a non-light sensitive dye-forming interlayer; an optional UV dye containing interlayer and a top overcoat; and wherein each interlayer is completely or substantially scavenger free, silver halide grains comprising greater than 90% silver chloride, and wherein the reciprocity characteristics of the silver halide grains are such that for a separation exposure of 1 microsecond and 0.4 sec, each color record develops to a density of at least 2.0 within a log exposure range of 1.2 or less relative to the exposure point producing a density 0.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 1999Date of Patent: July 31, 2001Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Michael R. Roberts, Gary J. McSweeney, Alphonse D. Camp
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Publication number: 20010004512Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having provided thereon: at least one yellow-color-forming light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer; at least one magenta-color-forming light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer; at least one cyan-color-forming light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer; and at least one light-insensitive non-color-forming hydrophilic colloid layer, wherein at least one layer of said at least one cyan-color-forming light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer contains at least one cyan-dye-forming coupler having a pKa of not more than 8.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 1998Publication date: June 21, 2001Applicant: Yasuhiro YoshiokaInventors: YASUHIRO YOSHIOKA, SHIN SOEJIMA, OSAMU TAKAHASHI, NAOKI SAITO, HISASHI MIKOSHIBA, MASAKAZU MORIGAKI
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Patent number: 6245497Abstract: A photographic element comprises a support bearing a cyan dye image-forming unit comprising 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, 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 said emulsion layers comprises a) an emulsion with 3D, core/shell grains of at least 0.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 1999Date of Patent: June 12, 2001Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Jon N. Eikenberry, David T. Southby
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Patent number: 6242169Abstract: A color photographic material containing at least one silver halide emulsion layer sensitised for the red range of the spectrum, which material contains at least one compound of the formula (I) in which R11 and R12 mutually independently denote an electron-attracting group, X11 denotes H or a group seperable on reaction with the developer oxidation product, Y11 denotes a group to complete a nitrogenous heterocycle, providing that a group represented by R12 is attached to a carbon atom of the heterocycle, n denotes 1 or 2, and at least one compound of the formula (II) in which R21 denotes alkyl, alkenyl, aryl, alkoxy, aryloxy, alkylamino, arylamino, acyl, acylamino, acyloxy, hetaryl, halogen, nitro or cyano, R22 denotes OH or has the same meaning as R21, n,m mutually independently denote 0 or 1, o denotes 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5, providing that the compound contains a total of at least 16 C atoms, is distinguished by improved light stability.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 1999Date of Patent: June 5, 2001Assignee: Agfa-GevaertInventors: Jörg Hagemann, Günter Helling, Heinz Wiesen
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Patent number: 6238855Abstract: A photographic element comprising a support bearing one or more silver halide emulsions at least one of which comprises at least 50% silver chloride in association with one or more image dye-forming couplers and one or more DI(A)R couplers of formulae I or II: wherein: TIME is a timing group and R1, R2, Z, n, and j are as defined in the specification, wherein the DI(A)R coupler(s) in association with an emulsion comprising at least 50% silver chloride comprise at least about 25% to about 90% of the total amount of coupler in association with that emulsion and the total amount of coupler is the sum of the number of moles of image coupler(s) and the number of moles of the DI(A)R couplers in association with that emulsion.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 1999Date of Patent: May 29, 2001Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Philip A. Allway, Christina M. Watts, Paul L. Stanley
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Patent number: 6232055Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic photosensitive material in which the photosensitive layer of the photosensitive material comprising a silver halide emulsion, a developing agent and a coupler is put together with the processing layer of a processing material so that these layers are heated to form a color image in the photosensitive material, said silver halide grains in the photosensitive layer having a silver chloride content of 50 mol% or more, wherein (1) the silver halide grains, in which 50% or more of the exterior faces of the grain is made up of a (111) plane, account for 50% or more of the total projected area of the silver halide grains of the emulsion, and the developing agent has a specific molecular structure, or (2) the tabular silver halide grains having an aspect ratio of 2 or more, which have the exterior faces of the grain made up of a (100) plane and a plane of projection of the grain in a shape of a rectangle with a length to width ratio ranging from 1:1 to 1:2, or which havType: GrantFiled: March 10, 1999Date of Patent: May 15, 2001Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsuhisa Ohzeki, Masahiro Asami, Takuya Yokokawa, Hideaki Naruse
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Patent number: 6221572Abstract: A color photographic material having a support and at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one color coupler associated with the latter, wherein the silver halide emulsion layer contains at least one compound of formula (I) wherein m denotes 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4, n denotes 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6, R1 denotes a di- to hexavalent group, R2 denotes alkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, alkoxy, aryloxy, alkylthio, arylthio, acyl, alkoxycarbonyl, aryloxycarbonyl, hydroxy, halogen, cyano, —SO2R5, —SOR5, —CON(R5)R6 or —SO2N(R5)R6, L1 denotes alkylene, arylene, aralkylene or alkylidene, L2 denotes L3, L4 denote a C1-C3 alkylene which is optionally substituted, R5 denotes alkyl or aryl, and R6 denotes H or R5, wherein L2 and X are as defined in the specification, is distinguished b improved stability to light.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 1998Date of Patent: April 24, 2001Assignee: Afga-Gevaert Naamloze VennootschapInventors: Jörg Hagemann, Günter Helling, Heinrich Odenwälder
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Patent number: 6220925Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having provided thereon at least one hydrophilic colloid layer, wherein the silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material contains a coupler represented by the formula (1) shown below and a non-color forming colorless cyclic imide compound having a diffusion-resistant group: wherein R1 and R2 each represents an alkyl group or an aryl group; R3, R4 and R5 each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an aryl group; Z represents a non-metallic atomic group necessary to form a saturated ring; R6 represents a substituent; X represents a heterocyclic group, a substituted amino group or an aryl group and Y represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of being released upon color development. The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material has an excellent color forming property to provide a color image of high maximum color density and good color reproducibility.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 1998Date of Patent: April 24, 2001Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoki Saito, Hisashi Mikoshiba, Masakazu Morigaki, Shin Soejima, Yasuhiro Yoshioka, Osamu Takahashi
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Patent number: 6218095Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic photosensitive material in which the photosensitive layer of the photosensitive material comprising a silver halide emulsion, a developing agent and a coupler is put together with the processing layer of a processing material so that these layers are heated to form a color image in the photosensitive material, said silver halide grains in the photosensitive layer having a silver chloride content of 50 mol % or more, wherein (1) the silver halide grains, in which 50% or more of the exterior faces of the grain is made up of a (111) plane, account for 50% or more of the total projected area of the silver halide grains of the emulsion, and the developing agent has a specific molecular structure, or (2) the tabular silver halide grains having an aspect ratio of 2 or more, which have the exterior faces of the grain made up of a (100) plane and a plane of projection of the grain in a shape of a rectangle with a length to width ratio ranging from 1:1 to 1:2, or which haType: GrantFiled: March 10, 1999Date of Patent: April 17, 2001Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsuhisa Ohzeki, Masahiro Asami, Takuya Yokokawa, Hideaki Naruse
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Patent number: 6200742Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material including a support and at least one light-sensitive layer formed on the support, wherein at least one of the light-sensitive layers contains at least one of the couplers represented by the following formula (I): wherein Z represents an atomic group that comprises a carbon atom and/or a nitrogen atom which, together with N—C═C, form a 5- or 6-member aromatic ring; R represents a substituent, and when there are a plurality of R, the R can be same or different, and may be coupled to each other so as to form a fused ring; m represents an integer of from 1 to 4; and X represents a carbonyl group, a methylene group, or a >C═N—Rn group wherein Rn represents a substituent The silver halide photographic light-sensitive material, which has excellent color reproducibility and sharpness and has good color image light-fastness, can be obtained by including therein a coupler which can provide a dye which has excellent hues andType: GrantFiled: March 29, 2000Date of Patent: March 13, 2001Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhiro Kato, Yasuhiro Shimada, Mario Aoki
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Patent number: 6194135Abstract: A negatively developing color photographic silver halide material having a support and at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one yellow coupler, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one magenta coupler and at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one cyan coupler, at least 95 mol % of the silver halides of which consist of AgCl, and in which at least one silver halide emulsion layer exhibits solarization on analogue exposure, is distinguished on scanning exposure by elevated color density and on analogue exposure by contrast which is independent of exposure time.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 1999Date of Patent: February 27, 2001Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert Naamloze VennootschapInventors: Cuong Ly, Stefan Amann, Jürgen Jung, Dieter Rockser
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Patent number: 6194131Abstract: A silver halide color photographic lightsensitive material comprising a compound represented by general formula (I): COUP—A—E—B (I) wherein COUP represents a coupler residue capable of coupling with a developing agent in an oxidized form, E represents an electrophilic moiety, A represents a single bond or a divalent connecting group which can release B while forming a 4 to 8-membered ring through an intramolecular nucleophilic substitution reaction between the electrophilic moiety E and a nitrogen atom of a coupling product that is obtained by the reaction of COUP with the developing agent in an oxidized form, wherein the nitrogen atom originates from the developing agent and directly binds to a coupling position of COUP, provided that A may be bound to COUP at the coupling position or position other than the coupling position of COUP, and B represents a photographically inert group.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2000Date of Patent: February 27, 2001Assignee: Fuji Photo film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takayuki Ito, Hidetoshi Kobayashi
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Patent number: 6183945Abstract: In a silver halide photographic light sensitive material having at least one emulsion layer provided on a support, a silver halide photographic light sensitive material characterized in that at least one of the silver halide emulsion layer comprises a magenta dye forming coupler represented by a formula (M-1) or (M-1′) described below, and a molar ratio MA/MC of silver halide and the magenta dye forming coupler in the silver halide emulsion layer containing the magenta dye forming coupler is 3.1 to 3.7 wherein MA is mols per unit area of silver halide in the silver halide emulsion layer, and MC is mols per unit area of the magenta dye forming coupler in the silver halide emulsion layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 1999Date of Patent: February 6, 2001Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Hirokazu Sato, Takeshi Hakii
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Patent number: 6174662Abstract: A photographic element comprises: (a) a support; and (b) at least one silver halide emulsion layer; wherein said emulsion layer contains (c) at least one magenta dye-forming pyrazolone DIR coupler of structure I; and (d) at least one magenta dye-forming imaging coupler of structure II, structure IIIa or structure IIIb, below: wherein the substituents are as defined in the specification.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 1999Date of Patent: January 16, 2001Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Paul B. Merkel, Jerrold N. Poslusny, David A. Steele