Direct Positive Process Patents (Class 430/378)
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Patent number: 4835091Abstract: A process for forming a direct positive image which comprises image-wise exposing a light-sensitive material comprising a support having provided thereon at least one internal latent image type direct positive silver halide photographic emulsion layer, subjecting the selecting material to whole surface exposure before or during developing process, and then developing the resulting material in the presence of a quaternary salt type nucleating agent or a hydrazine type nucleating agent.The process is very high in the latitude for changes of expose amount, developing time, developing solution components, process temperature and the like and makes it possible to progress the development is a short time even in a low pH developing solution.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 1987Date of Patent: May 30, 1989Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Noriyuki Inoue, Tatsuo Heki, Shigeo Hirano
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Patent number: 4801520Abstract: A direct positive color light-sensitive material comprising a support having provided thereon at least one photographic emulsion layer containing unfogged internal latent image type silver halide particles and a color image forming coupler, wherein said color image forming coupler itself is substantially nondiffusible and produces or releases a dye upon oxidation coupling with a color developing agent, and said light-sensitive material contains at least one development inhibitor-releasing type coupler selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by formulae (D-I) and (D-II)Coup--Z (D-I)Coup--TIME--Z (D-II)wherein Coup represents a coupler residual group; Z represents a diffusible development inhibitor or a precursor thereof; and TIME represents a timing group.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 1987Date of Patent: January 31, 1989Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Noriyuki Inoue, Tatsuo Heki
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Patent number: 4764454Abstract: A novel silver halide color photographic material is provided comprising a compound of the general formula (I):LIG-A-LVG (I)wherein A represents a group which reacts with an oxidation product of a developing agent to cleave the bond to LVG; LVG represents a coupling-off group; and LIG represents a group which reacts with metal ions to form a complex compound.A novel method of processing the instant silver halide color photographic material is provided including a processing step using a processing solution of an iron (II) ion concentration of 1.times.10.sup.-6 to 1 mol/l. In the processing step, the potential of a bath having a bleaching capacity containing an aminopolycarboxylic acid-iron (III) complex salt is 150 mV or less.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 1986Date of Patent: August 16, 1988Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seiji Ichijima, Kei Sakanoue
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Patent number: 4636457Abstract: Direct positive photographic elements are disclosed employing internal latent image silver halide emulsions associated with developer autoxidation promoter agents constituted by 5 or 6 membered nucleus-containing heterocyclic compounds comprising an azomethine group, whose methine group is substituted with a 5-amino-1,2,4-triazolyl group, and/or copper complex compounds thereof.Preferably said direct positive photographic elements are multi-layer elements comprising internal latent image type type silver halide emulsion layers sensitized to different regions of the visible light and associated with image-dye providing compounds (photographic color couplers).Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 1985Date of Patent: January 13, 1987Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing CompanyInventors: Luigi Valbusa, Enzo Coraluppi, Andrea Quaglia, Mario Tavella
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Patent number: 4557998Abstract: Essentially colorless, hydrophilic ligand-releasing polymers are prepared from ethylenically unsaturated polymerizable monomers represented by the structure: ##STR1## wherein R' is hydrogen or lower alkyl, COUP is a photographic color coupling moiety, LINK is a coupling-off group which can be cleaved by an oxidized developer composition, and LIG is a ligand capable of complexing with metal ions, while joined to the polymer, to form a dye. These polymers also have recurring units which impart hydrophilicity to the polymer. These polymers form metal complex dyes in unexposed areas of photographic elements only, while the ligand is cleaved from the polymer in the exposed areas and washed out of the element.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 1985Date of Patent: December 10, 1985Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: William N. Washburn, Kenneth R. Hollister
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Patent number: 4555477Abstract: A process of obtaining highly stable color masking dyes comprises use of an element which has a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith an essentially colorless, immobile, ligand-releasing compound of the structure LIG-X. In this structure, X is a group which, as a function of silver halide development, is cleaved from LIG, and LIG is a ligand capable of complexing with metal ions while joined to X to form a color masking dye. A color masking dye is formed by developing the imagewise exposed areas of the described element with a developing agent to cleave LIG from X and washing substantially all of the cleaved LIG moieties in those areas out of the element, and treating the element with metal ions to form a masking dye complex with LIG-X in unexposed areas.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 1985Date of Patent: November 26, 1985Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventor: William N. Washburn
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Patent number: 4555478Abstract: A process of obtaining highly stable color images comprises use of an element which has a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith an essentially colorless, immobile, ligand-releasing compound of the structure LIG-X. In this structure, LIG is a ligand which is capable of complexing with metal ions (e.g. ferrous ions) to form a metal complex dye, and X is a group which, as a function of silver halide development, is cleaved from LIG. A color image is formed by developing the described element after imagewise exposure with a developing agent to imagewise cleave the bond between the LIG and X, and treating the developed element with metal ions (e.g. ferrous ions) to form a metal complex dye image.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 1985Date of Patent: November 26, 1985Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: James A. Reczek, Janice M. Palumbo
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Patent number: 4444871Abstract: Method for forming a direct positive-color image in which an imagewise exposure is applied to a direct positive silver halide color photosensitive material comprising a support and at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer which contain internal latent image type silver halide grains whose surfaces are not fogged, said method including applying a fogging exposure and color development wherein said fogging exposure is applied in a wet condition with a solution containing at least one fluorescent whitening agent.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 1982Date of Patent: April 24, 1984Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuyoshi Miyaoka, Shigeharu Koboshi
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Patent number: 4440851Abstract: A method for obtaining direct positive images wherein a photographic material having a support and at least two silver halide emulsion layers coated thereon, each layer having a different spectral sensitivity, said emulsions being of the internal latent image type and containing unfogged silver halide crystals, is imagewise exposed and then subjected to an overall area exposure prior to or during the development thereof to form the image. The overall area exposure is such that the photographic intensity ratios between various layers are not more than 6 and the intensity of such overall exposure has a value between light intensities which give 0.8 times the maximum image density of the particular emulsion layer and 10 times that light intensity value.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 1982Date of Patent: April 3, 1984Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuo Tosaka, Keiji Ogi
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Patent number: 4423126Abstract: A new color-forming 4-(4'-secondary or tertiary-amino)anilino-1-carboxamidonaphthalene dye precursor in a photographic material and process enables formation of a dye image by means of cross-oxidation without the need for a coupling reaction. The color-forming 4-(4'-secondary or tertiary-amino)anilino-1-carboxamidonaphthalene dye precursor is useful in a photographic silver halide material for producing (i) a dye image, or (ii) a dye image and silver image. The exposed photographic material is processed to produce (a) a positive dye image, (b) a negative dye and negative silver image, (c) a negative dye image or (d) a positive dye image and a positive silver image. New naphthoquinoneimide dyes are also described.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 1982Date of Patent: December 27, 1983Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: James E. Klijanowicz, Csaba A. Kovacs
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Patent number: 4395478Abstract: A radiation-sensitive emulsion for use in forming a direct-positive image is disclosed. The emulsion is comprised of core-shell silver halide grains. The shell portions of the grains contain polyvalent metal ions to reduce rereversal.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 1981Date of Patent: July 26, 1983Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventor: Harry A. Hoyen
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Patent number: 4324855Abstract: A process for developing a light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least one internal latent image-forming silver halide photographic emulsion layer which comprises, after imagewise exposure, developing the light-sensitive material with an alkaline solution of a developing agent in the presence of a compound represented by the formula I which is capable of selectively forming latent images in the inner portions of said silver halide upon development: ##STR1## wherein Y represents an acyl group or a cyano group and said acyl group and the 3-, 4- or 5-position of the pyridinium ring may be optionally substituted.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 1980Date of Patent: April 13, 1982Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasushi Oishi, Shigeo Hirano
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Patent number: 4308336Abstract: In color photographic sensitive materials comprising at least one direct reversal silver halide emulsion layer associated with a diffusible dye-releasing redox compound on a base, the improvement which comprises that at least one of a layer containing said redox compound or said direct reversal silver halide emulsion layer contains about 5 to 200 mg per 100 millimols silver in the emulsion layer of a compound represented by the general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein A.sub.1 and A.sub.2 each represents a hydrogen atom or a hydrolyzable group, P, Q and R which may be the same or different each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkylthio group, an arylthio group, a hydroxyl group, a halogen atom, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, a heterocyclic group or an --S--Z.sup.2 group, Z.sup.1 and Z.sup.2 may be the same or different and each represents an unsaturated heterocyclic residue which is photographically inactive when bonded to the hydroquinone through the sulfur moiety, and --S--Z.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 1980Date of Patent: December 29, 1981Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kokichi Waki, Keiichi Adachi, Seiki Sakanoue
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Patent number: 4268621Abstract: A light-sensitive silver halide photographic material of internal latent image type for use in the formation of a direct positive image containing a compound of the following general formula (I) or (II):General formula (I) ##STR1## General formula (II) ##STR2## The photographic material can be developed after a shortened induction period, can yield good positive images that are free from stain when undergoing fogging development, and can yield good direct positive images with a high maximum density and a low minimum density. The photographic material forms a direct positive image when subjected, after imagewise exposure, to an overall light exposure or development in the presence of a fogging agent and can be developed by surface development.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 1979Date of Patent: May 19, 1981Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.Inventors: Keiji Ogi, Takashi Sasaki, Kenichiro Okaniwa, Yasuo Tosaka
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Patent number: T997004Abstract: Novel 3,3-disubstituted acylhydrazinophenylthiourea nucleating agents are disclosed as well as silver halide photographic emulsions and elements containing silver halide grains capable of forming an internal latent image having the nucleating agents adsorbed to the surface of the silver halide grains. Imaging processes in which these materials participate are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 1979Date of Patent: August 5, 1980Inventor: Ronald E. Leone