Abstract: The present invention provides a photothermographic material having, on at least one side of a support, at least an image forming layer containing a photosensitive silver halide, a non-photosensitive organic silver salt, and a reducing agent for the organic silver salt, and at least one non-photosensitive layer, wherein the material contains a water-soluble magenta dye, and also provides an image forming method.

Abstract: A heat developable color light-sensitive material containing at least light-sensitive silver halide, a binder, and a dye-providing compound on a support, wherein at least one of the compounds represented by formula (1) is contained as the above dye-providing compound, and the amount of the above binder is 5 g/m.sup.2 or less: ##STR1## wherein veriables in the above formula are defined in the specification. The heat developable color light-sensitive material which provides an excellent discrimination of an image and is less susceptible to an influence by a fluctuation in a development processing condition.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having provided thereon a layer containing at least one cyan dye image forming compound represented by the following formula (1):(Dye-X).sub.1 --Y (1)wherein Dye, X, Y and q are as defined in the specification. The silver halide photographic light-sensitive material containing the cyan dye image forming compound according to the present invention provides a cyan color image excellent in fastness to light, humidity and heat.

Abstract: The present invention is concerned with a novel azo compound represented by formula (1), (2) or (3), a water-soluble dye comprising this azo compound, and a polarizing film containing this azo compound. The obtained polarizing film has high hydrothermoresistance and a high polarization degree and is excellent in optical characteristics: ##STR1## wherein each of the groups is defined.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light sensitive material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon photographic component layers including a silver halide emulsion layer and a light insensitive hydrophilic colloidal layer, wherein at least one of the component layers contains a leuco dye represented by the following formula.

Abstract: Multilayer silver halide color photographic element comprising a support having thereon at least a blue sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow dye-forming coupler, at least a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta dye-forming coupler, and at least a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan dye-forming coupler, said red-sensitive layer or a gelatin interlayer adjacent said red-sensitive layer containing a non-diffusible, non-coupling magenta colored azo dye.

Abstract: Multilayer silver halide color photographic element comprising a support having thereon at least a blue sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow dye-forming coupler, at least a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta dye-forming coupler, and at least a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan dye-forming coupler, said red-sensitive layer containing a non-diffusible, cyan dye-forming magenta masking coupler.

Abstract: The invention provides a photographic element comprising a support bearing a light-sensitive photographic silver halide layer containing (1) a bicyclic azole coupler (2) an azopyrazolone masking coupler and (3) a low impact development inhibitor releasing (LIDIR) coupler having at least one hydrogen atom at the coupling site and which does not substantially reduce contrast in the layer in which it is coated.

Abstract: A heat developable color light-sensitive material containing at least light-sensitive silver halide, a binder, and a dye-providing compound on a support, wherein at least one of the compounds represented by formula (1) is contained as the above dye-providing compound, and the amount of the above binder is 5 g/m.sup.2 or less: ##STR1## wherein variables in the above formula are defined in the specification. The heat developable color light-sensitive material which provides an excellent discrimination of an image and is less susceptible to an influence by a fluctuation in a development processing condition.

Abstract: A silver halide light-sensitive material containing a compound represented by formula (I): ##STR1## wherein variables in the above formula (I) are defined in the specification. The silver halide light-sensitive material has a small fluctuation in sensitivity even when the processing temperature changes and has an improved color reproduction and an excellent discrimination and can achieve low Dmin and high Dmax.

Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprises a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, a yellow-colored cyan coupler, and a compound capable of releasing a bleaching accelerator or a precursor thereof on reaction with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent.

Abstract: The invention provides a photographic element comprising a substrate bearing a photographic silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a high dye-yield coupler having the formula: ##STR1## wherein: COUP is a photographic coupler residue capable of coupling with oxidized color developer to form a first dye;T is a timing group;m is an integer from 0 to 2;L is a linking group selected from the group consisting of --OC(.dbd.O)--, --OC(.dbd.S)--, --SC(.dbd.O)--, --SC(.dbd.S)--, and --OC(.dbd.NSO.sub.2 R) where R is substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or aryl; andDYE is a releasable second dye or dye precursor having a particular formula including a methine dye chromophore.

Abstract: A color photographic silver halide negative working duplicating element and process comprising (A) a magenta colored masking coupler in at least one blue-sensitive photographic silver halide emulsion layer; and (B) a combination of (i) masking couplers and (ii) color contamination of at least one photographic silver halide emulsion layer enables upon exposure and processing of the element formation of a duplicate image that enables formation of a print image that is visually indistinguishable from the original image. The color photographic silver halide duplicating element is useful in forming duplicate images, especially for color motion picture films.

Abstract: The invention relates to a melt for the coating of a layer in a photographic element and which contains water, gelatin and an anionically charged, hydrophobic group containing compound that is (a) water soluble or soluble in a solution of 5 to 20 percent of water miscible organic solvent,said melt being further characterized by containing an amount of an amphiphilic compound which is sufficient to reduce the viscosity of said melt, said compound selected from the class consisting of:Type A: Sugar (saccharidic) compounds, characterized by having one to three hydrophobic groups, each group containing from about 6 to about 22 carbon atoms, and having one or more attached hydrophilic mono- or oligosaccharidic hydrophilic chains that may or may not be terminated by a negatively charged group such as a sulfate, sulfonate or a carboxyl group; andType B: Compounds compromising a hydrophobic group having from about 6 to about 22 carbon atoms and having one or two attached hydrophilic chains comprising at least 4 oxyet

Abstract: A method of processing a photographic element having a layer comprising a silver halide emulsion sensitized with a cyanine dye where the dye is present in the processing solution at a concentration sufficient to cause formation of solid dye particles. The method comprises contacting the element with at least one processing solution in the presence of an effective amount of a dye solubilizing compound of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, and R.sub.4 are each independently selected from the group consisting of ##STR2## halogen, hydrogen, hydroxy, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted aryl, substituted or unsubstituted alkoxy, and sulfo,R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 are each independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, and substituted or unsubstituted aryl, with the proviso that the dye solubilizing compound comprises at least four solubilizing groups as substituents on R.sub.5 's or R.sub.

Abstract: A color light-sensitive material comprising a support provided thereon at least one light-sensitive silver salt layer combined with an image forming compound represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein Dye represents a cyan dye group or a precursor thereof represented by formula (II) defined in the specification;X represents a chemical bond or a linking group;Y represents a group which releases Dye corresponding to or countercorresponding to light-sensitive silver salt having an imagewise latent image and makes a difference in diffusibility between the dye thus released and the compound represented by formula (I), provided that Dye and X are linked to each other by A or E in formula (II); andq represents an integer of 1 or 2, provided that when q is 2, the two groups (Dye--X) may be the same or different.

Abstract: A full color recording material which has, on a support, at least three silver halide photosensitive emulsion layers which have different color sensitivities and which contain a yellow coupler, magenta coupler and cyan coupler, respectively, and in which at least two of these layers are selectively spectrally sensitized to match semiconductor laser light beams of wavelengths greater than 670 nm, wherein said at least three silver halide photosensitive layers which have different color sensitivities each contains silver chlorobromide grains with a layer average silver chloride content of at least 96 mol %, and said silver chlorobromide grains have a silver bromide local phase of which the silver bromide content is higher than that of the surroundings and a method for forming color images wherein the recording material is imagewise exposed while being transported at a feed rate which matches the scanning rate with semiconductor light beams, and substantially continuously to the exposing, the material is subject

Abstract: Azo dyes of the formula ##STR1## where X is alkyl or alkoxy each of 1 to 4 carbon atoms or halogen, X' is hydrogen, alkyl or alkoxy each of 1 to 4 carbon atoms or halogen, Y and Y' are independently of each other hydrogen or halogen, Z is hydrogen, alkyl or alkoxy or alkylthio each of 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or halogen, M is a 1-, 2- or 3-valent metal cation, ammonium or an organic ammonium compound, m is 1, 2 or 3 and n is 2 to 10, are suitable for use as image dyes in photographic silver dye bleach materials.The dyes of the invention can also be used to dye textile materials.

Abstract: Photographic silver halide emulsion element for dye image production comprising a support carrying at least one alkali-permeable silver halide hydrophilic colloid emulsion layer incorporating in operative association therewith a dye-releasing compound capable of releasing a diffusible dye moiety from a carrier moiety by a redox reaction, said compound corresponding to the general formula: ##STR1## wherein CAR is an organic carrier moiety capable of undergoing a redox reaction, L is a group cleavable or releasable from the carrier moiety by a redox reaction taking place in alkaline condiitons as a function of the development of a silver halide emulsion layer incorporating such compound, G is a bridging group, each of L.sup.1 and L.sup.2 is a linking member, PUG.sup.1 is a dye (precursor) group, PUG.sup.2 is a dye (precursor) group, an UV-absorber group, or a singlet oxygen scavenger group.

Abstract: This invention provides a silver halide photographic light sensitive material having an improved blackness of image silver, as well as high sensitivity and covering power. The present silver halide photographic light sensitive material includes at least one layer of a silver halide photographic emulsion on at least one side of a support, characterized in that said layer of silver halide photographic emulsion contains fine silver halide grains, or tabular silver halide grains having a grain thickness of 0.4.mu. or less, and a dye having a maximum absorption wave length of 520 to 580 nm is contained in said layer of silver halide photographic emulsion and/or another layer such that the transmission density of green light is 0.03 or less after the developing treatment of the photographic light sensitive material.

Abstract: An image recording material is provided which comprises an electroconductive base plate, a recording layer provided on at least one side of said plate and a photosensitive layer provided on said recording layer. The recording layer may constituted of a electrolytically polymerized film, and the photosensitive layer may constituted of a polymer complex formed from a basic polymer and an acidic polymer. A method for image recording is also provided.

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Abstract: There are described novel azo and azomethine dye developers which include a pyrazolone moiety having two silver halide developing groups. In one embodiment the dye developers are metal complexed. The dye developer compounds are useful in photographic products and processes.

Abstract: A heat developable light-sensitive material having an excellent stability with time and capable of providing a high quality image is disclosed, which contains a base precursor represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein A represents an organic residue represented by the following formula (II): ##STR2## X represents an electron attractive substituent having a Hammett's sigma value of more than 0;l represents an integer of 1 to 5 and, when l represents 2 or more, a plurality of Xs may be the same or different;Y represents a substituent having a Hammett's sigma value of 0 or less;k represents an integer of 0 to 5 and, when k represents 2 or more, a plurality of Ys may be the same or different;Z represents a divalent organic residue selected from the group consisting of --C.dbd.

Abstract: Compounds of the formula(B--L).sub.m A--L'--B').sub.n (1),in which A is the radical of a bisazo or trisazo dye, L and L' are organic radicals and B and B' are cyclic organic radicals and at least one of the radicals B and B' has spectral absorption in the UV region and one of the radicals B and B' is different from 2,4-dihydroxyphenyl, m is 1 or 2 and n is 0, 1 or 2.The compounds are suitable for use as image dyes in photographic silver dye bleach materials.

Abstract: Diffusion transfer photographic color products and processes are described in which there are utilized novel chrome complexed neutral tone black image dye-providing materials which include either a 1-naphthol-2'-naphthol-1', 2-azo dye moiety or a 2-naphthol-2'naphthol-1, 1'-azo dye moiety, a parasubstituted phenyl azo-pyrazolone dye moiety and a cation. The image dye-providing material includes a diffusion control moiety such as a hydroquinonyl group or a precursor thereof and may be diffusible or nondiffusible as a function of the diffusion control moiety.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material is described which comprises a support having thereon a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the photographic light-sensitive material therein contains a blocked photographic agent capable of releasing a photographically useful agent and the blocked photographic agent has a carbonyl group or thiocarbonyl group to which a hydrogen atom or a carbon atom is directly bonded and is substituted with a photographically useful group which is capable of being released upon an intramolecular nucleophilic attack by the oxygen atom in the carbonyl group or the sulfur atom in the thiocarbonyl group.The precursor of photographic agent is completely stable during storage prior to use of the photographic light-sensitive material, and releases a photographic agent at a desired time upon the processing of the photographic light-sensitive material. The precursor also exhibits its function to a substantial degree in a relatively low pH range.

Abstract: A photographic element for use in a method of multicolor image formation by tanning development is a layered structure comprising an optionally primed base support, a layer of colloidal silver, a layer of sensitized silver halide emulsion in gelatin free of hardener, and at least one colored pigment or dye dispersed therein which absorbs radiation.

Abstract: Compounds of the formula ##STR1## in which X.sub.1 is hydrogen, alkyl, alkoxy, --NL.sub.1 COM.sub.1, in which L.sub.1 is hydrogen or alkyl and M.sub.1 is alkyl or alkoxy, or is --NL.sub.1 P(O)(OG.sub.1).sub.2, in which G.sub.1 is alkyl, or is alkylsulfonamide or hydroxyl, Y.sub.1 is hydrogen, alkyl, alkoxy, carbalkoxy, N-alkyl-substituted or N,N-dialkyl-substituted amino or --NL.sub.2 COM.sub.2, in which L.sub.2 is hydrogen or alkyl and M.sub.2 is alkyl or alkoxy, Z.sub.1 is hydrogen, alkyl, alkoxy, --NL.sub.2 COM.sub.3, in which M.sub.3 is alkyl, or is carbalkoxy or halogen or represents those atoms which are required to form a ring with Y.sub.1, W.sub.1 is hydrogen, alkyl or alkoxy, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 independently of one another are hydrogen, halogen, cyano, nitro or --SO.sub.2 U.sub.3, in which U.sub.3 is alkyl or phenyl, R.sub.3 is hydrogen or alkyl or, if R.sub.4 is a direct chemical bond, the two radicals R.sub.3 together are a link member and R.sub.

Abstract: A color photographic recording material, in which a precursor compound for a yellow mask coupler is contained in a green-sensitive layer or in a layer adjacent thereto and in which a blue-sensitive layer is arranged between this layer and the layer support, permits very good sharpness with satisfactory speed.

Abstract: A photographic light-sensitive element for a color diffusion transfer process which has a silver halide emulsion layer and also employs a nondiffusible cyan dye releasing compound. The compound is capable of releasing a diffusible metallic complex which forms an azo dye under alkaline conditions as a function of the development of the silver halide in said silver halide emulsion layer.

Abstract: Photographic elements, diffusion transfer assemblages, coordination complexes and processes are described which employ a novel nondiffusible compound having a releasable yellow dye moiety or precursor thereof, the compound having the formula: ##STR1## wherein: (a) X represents the atoms necessary to complete a 5- or 6-membered aromatic heterocyclic fused ring;(b) Z represents alkyl, substituted alkyl, aryl or substituted aryl;(c) R represents CN or J--L;(d) J represents a bivalent ##STR2## group; (e) L represents alkyl, substituted alkyl, aryl, substituted aryl, or can be taken together with Z to complete a carbonyl-containing 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic or carbocyclic ring;(f) Z.sup.

Abstract: Diffusion transfer photographic color processes and products are described utilizing novel image dye-providing materials which provide image dyes having the chromophoric system represented by the formula ##STR1## wherein X is ##STR2## or --SO.sub.2 --R.sub.1 ; Z is H, alkyl or aryl; R is H, alkyl or aryl; DYE is any dye moiety; R.sub.1 is H, alkyl, aryl, --NH.sub.2, --NHR.sub.2, --N(R.sub.2).sub.2 or --OR.sub.2 ; R.sub.2 is H, alkyl or aryl; and m is 1 or 2. The image dye providing material includes a diffusion control moiety such as a hydroquinonyl group or a precursor thereof and may be diffusible or nondiffusible as a function of the diffusion control moiety.

Abstract: Photographic elements and diffusion transfer assemblages are described which employ a nondiffusible compound having a releasable azo dye moiety or precursor thereof having the following formula: ##STR1## wherein: (a) each Z and Z' represents the atoms necessary to complete an aromatic carbocyclic or heterocyclic nucleus having at least one ring of 5 to 7 atoms; each Z' having, in a position adjacent to the point of attachment to the azo linkage, either (i) a nitrogen atom in the ring of the nucleus which acts as a chelating site, or (ii) a carbon atom in the ring of the nucleus having directly attached thereto a nitrogen atom which acts as a chelating site;(b) G is a metal chelating group;(c) each CAR is a ballasted carrier moiety;(d) Me is a polyvalent, hexacoordinate metal ion; and(e) each n is 0 or 1, with the proviso that at least one n is 1.

Abstract: Photographically useful compounds such as photographic reagents and photographic dyes are blocked with a grouping which, under alkaline conditions, is cleaved from the compound by an intramolecular nucleophilic displacement reaction. The compounds are resistant to unblocking under storage conditions, but are uniformly unblocked under conditions encountered during photographic processing.

Abstract: Shifted photographic dyes which have good storage stability, yet rapidly unblock under processing conditions contain a blocked hydroxy group and a neighboring group that anchimerically assists the hydrolytic cleavage of the blocking group under processing conditions.

Abstract: Novel yellow 2:1 chrome complexed dye developer particularly useful in photographic products and processes are presented by this invention. The novel 2:1 chrome complexed dye developers have the following structure: ##STR1## where each A is a phenyl radical; each B is a phenyl or nitrogen containing heterocylic radical; Y is a silver halide developing substituent; each n is 0 or 1 but at least one n must be 1; R is N or CH; R.sup.1 is ##STR2## if R is N but R.sup.1 is --O--if R is CH and X is a cation.