Abstract: An anti-reflection film has a low refractive index layer and a high refractive index layer. The low refractive index layer is formed by coating a composition comprising (a) a hydrolysis product or a partial condensation product of an organosilane and (c) a vinyl resin. The organosilane is represented by the formula of R.sup.1 Si(OR.sup.2).sub.3 in which R.sup.1 is an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, an alkenyl group having 2 to 10 carbon atoms or an aryl group having 6 to 10 carbon atoms, and R.sup.2 is an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms or an acyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms. The vinyl resin has at least one silyl group substituted with a hydrolyzable group or hydroxyl.

Abstract: Processing a silver halide color photographic material comprising color developing, desilvering and water washing and/or stabilizing. In this process, a photographic material which has at least one emulsion layer containing a high silver chloride content, and at least one emulsion layer containing a monodisperse emulsion, is continuously processed with a color developing solution containing a water-soluble high polymer compound. The coated amount of silver in the photographic material is preferably 0.75 g/m.sup.2 or less. The color developing solution preferably has a chloride ion content of 0.035 mol/l or more. The water soluble high polymer compound can be a polyester, polyamide, polyurethane, polyether, polycarbonate or a natural high polymer compound, or their derivatives. It is obtained by polymerizing or copolymerizing a monomer containing a copolymerizable ethylene type unsaturated group. The high polymer compound is preferably added in the amount of 0.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is disclosed which comprises a support having provided thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein at least one photographic layer in the photographic material contains a high molecular weight compound having a repeating unit represented by formula (I) and a solid fine particle dispersion of a dye: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; R.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an aryl group; R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 each represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; and M.sub.1 and M.sub.2 each represents a hydrogen atom or a cation.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a silver halide photographic material having improved antiblocking property without deterioration of film brittleness and image quality due to addition of a polymer latex.A silver halide photographic material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer and at least one nonsensitive protective layer on a support, in which the nonsensitive protective layer contains polymer grains represented by the following General Formula (1) in a proportion by weight of 5 to 300% to a hydrophilic colloid as a binder, and the polymer grains have a mean grain diameter of at most 0.1 .mu.m,--(A).sub.x --(B).sub.y --(C).sub.

Abstract: An anti-reflection film comprises a low refractive index layer provided on one surface of a transparent support. The low refractive index layer has a refractive index of not higher than 1.45. The low refractive index layer has a surface average reflectance of not higher than 1% within the visible region of 400 to 800 nm. According to the first embodiment of the present invention, an infrared absorbing layer is provided between the transparent support and the low refractive index layer. According to the second embodiment of the present invention, an infrared absorbing layer is provided on the other surface of the transparent support. The infrared absorbing layer contains an infrared absorbing dye. The infrared absorbing layer decreases a transmittance of the film to not higher than 40% at a wavelength within the infrared region of 800 to 1,100 nm. Plasma display panels using the anti-reflection films are also disclosed.

Abstract: An anti-reflection film comprises a transparent support and a low refractive index layer. The low refractive index layer has a refractive index of not higher than 1.45. The low refractive index layer comprises a binder polymer and micro polymer particles. The micro polymer particles are superposed upon each other to form micro voids surrounded by the particles. The micro polymer particles have a mean particle size in the range of 5 to 200 nm. According to the first embodiment of the present invention, the particles comprise a cross-linked polymer. According to the second embodiment of the present invention, the particles comprise a polymer cross-linked to the binder polymer.

Abstract: A method for dispersing a water-insoluble phase containing a hydrophobic, photographically useful compound in water or a hydrophilic colloid composition using an anionic surface active agent is disclosed, which comprises dispersing the hydrophobic, photographically useful compound by using an anionic surface active agent having a hydrophobic group and a group represented by --SO.sub.3 M or --OSO.sub.3 M (where M represents a cation) and a specific phosphorus-containing surface active compound, or, adding the anionic surface active agent for dispersion, and after the completion of dispersion further adding the specific phosphorus-containing surface active compound. According to the dispersion method of the present invention, a dispersion favored with maintenance of fine particle performance at the dispersion and free of grain growth during aged storage or generation of coarse grains or precipitated crystals can be obtained.

Abstract: There is disclosed a novel surface-active compound, and a silver halide photographic material and a processing solution for a silver halide photographic material containing the same. The surface-active compound is represented by the following formula (I): ##STR1## Wherein R.sup.1 represents an aliphatic group, an alicyclic compound group, an aromatic group, or a heterocyclic ring; R.sup.2 represents an aliphatic group, an alicyclic compound group, an aromatic group, a heterocyclic ring, or a group represented by --L--Z; Q.sup.1, Q.sup.2, and Q.sup.3 each represent a single bond, an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, or a group represented by --N(R.sup.3)--, in which R.sup.3 represents a hydrogen atom or a group represented by R.sup.2 ; L represents a divalent linking group; and Z represents an ionic group.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprises at least one silver halide emulsion layer provided on a support. The silver halide emulsion layer contains a color coupler. According to the present invention, the color coupler is contained in particles of a specific polymer dispersed in the silver halide emulsion layer. The specific polymer comprises repeating units represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 is hydrogen, a halogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; each of R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 is an aliphatic group or an aromatic group, or R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are combined with the oxygen atoms and the phosphorus atom to form a heterocyclic ring; and L is a divalent linking group selected from --CO--, --O--, --S--, --NR.sup.4 --, --SO.sub.2 --, a divalent aliphatic group, a divalent aromatic group and a combination thereof, and R.sup.4 is hydrogen or an aliphatic group.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is described, which comprises a hydrazine derivative represented by the following formula (I) and a surface active compound represented by the following formula (II): ##STR1## and wherein the substituents are defined in the specification. An image formation method using the silver halide photographic material is also described.

Abstract: A color diffusion transfer film unit and an image formation method using the same are disclosed, in which a light-sensitive material containing a specific sulfonamide compound of formula (I) and a specific tertiary amine compound of formula (II) is processed with an alkali processing composition containing a specific tertiary amine polymer. The film provides a transferred color image having a high density with reduced dependency on processing time, and suppresses changes in density of the resulting image with time after processing.

Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide photographic material containing a dispersion of a hydrophobic compound and a water-insoluble and organic solvent-soluble polymer as defined herein. The hydrophobic compound may be a dye which is photochemically inactive during storage but readily decolored and eluted in photographic processing.

Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide photographic material containing a dispersion of a hydrophobic compound and a water-insoluble and organic solvent-soluble polymer as defined herein. The hydrophobic compound may be a dye which is photochemically inactive during storage but readily decolored and eluted in photographic processing.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material has provided on a support a non-light-sensitive surface layer which contains an organic polymer represented by formula (I) and having a mean grain size of 1.0 .mu.m or more, the polymer being produced by suspension polymerization: ##STR1## wherein A is a repeating unit obtained by polymerization of at least one monomer having two or more copolymerizable ethylenic unsaturated groups; B is a repeating unit obtained by polymerization of at least one monomer having one copolymerizable ethylenic unsaturated group; and x, y and z each represents a weight percentage, x is a number of from 1 to 40, y is a number of from 30 to 99 and z is a number of from 0 to 65. The material has good vacuum contact adhesiveness in contact exposures, and the transparency of the processed material is good.

Abstract: Disclosed is silver halide photographic photosensitive material comprising a support, having thereon at least one silver halide photosensitive emulsion layer, wherein a polymer which can be represented by the following general formula (I) is included in at least one of the structural layers of the photographic photosensitive material: ##STR1## The term A represents a repeating unit obtained by polymerizing a monomer which has at least two polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated groups of which at least one is in a side chain; B represents a repeating monomer unit obtained by the polymerization of a monomer which has one polymerizable ethylenically unsaturated group; R.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 each represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; R.sup.4 represents a hydrogen atom or an organic group; L.sub.

Abstract: A photographic light-sensitive material for medical use or nondestructive testing use is described, comprising (1) a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and (2) a polymer located on the same side of the support as an emulsion layer and capable of providing a cation site in a fixing solution.

Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the silver halide emulsion layer or another hydrophilic colloid layer contains a compound represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represents a hydrogen atom or a substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbon group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms, and at least one of R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 represents a substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbon group, including an alkyl group having not less than 6 carbon atoms; L represents a divalent bonding group; and M represents a hydrogen atom or a cation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for processing a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing silver iodide with a processing solution having fixing ability after developing the light-sensitive material. The object of the present invention is to speed up the fixing process in the foregoing method and to reduce the amount of waste liquor from the fixing process. The present invention is characterized in that the processing with the processing solution having fixing ability is performed while the processing solution is brought into contact with an anion-exchange resin and that 20 to 2,000 l of the processing solution per liter of the anion-exchange resin is brought into contact with the resin.

Abstract: A composition for color-development of a silver halide color photographic material and a method for processing such using the same wherein the composition comprises an aromatic primary amine color developing agent, a hydroxylamine compound represented by formula (I) or a hydrazine compound represented by formula (II) and at least one polymer selected from the group consisting of a vinyl alcohol homopolymer, a vinyl alcohol copolymer, a vinylpyrrolidone homopolymer, and a vinylpyrrolidone copolymer, being free from sulfite ion, providing a color photographic image high in maximum density and good in whiteness without causing problems by tarry substance in the color developer.

Abstract: A silver halide photosensitive material is disclosed, comprising a polyester film support having thereon at least one hydrophilic colloid layer, at least one layer of which is a silver halide emulsion layer and at least one layer of which is a polymer latex-containing hydrophilic colloid layer, said polyester film support having coated on each side thereof a vinylidene chloride copolymer having a weight average molecular weight not more than 45,000, said vinylidene chloride copolymer being a core/shell type latex, said core part containing at least one of each type of repeating unit represented by formulae (I) and )II) and the said shell part containing at least one of each type of repeating unit represented the formulae (I), (III) and (IV): ##STR1## wherein A.sup.1 represents a hydrogen atom, a methyl group or a halogen atom, A.sup.2 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group or phenyl group, A.sup.3 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, A.sup.