Developing Inhibitor Or Processing Ingredient Containing Patents (Class 430/505)
  • Patent number: 4857448
    Abstract: An improved photographic silver halide element comprises a support, and an emulsion layer unit containing one or more photographic silver halide emulsions sensitized to the same spectral region and, adjacent each side of the emulsion layer unit, a layer substantially free of active silver halide containing an image modifier which is a compound capable of imagewise releasing an image-modifying compound on silver halide development wherein at least one of the layers contains a dye image-forming coupler. Such a layer arrangement enables greater control of the emulsion layer's response to oxidized developer generated upon processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1989
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Michael J. Simons
  • Patent number: 4855220
    Abstract: A photographic element is disclosed that comprises a support having thereon spectrally-sensitized light-sensitive silver halide, a color dye-forming coupler, a DIR compound capable of inhibiting development of the silver halide, and, between the silver halide layer and the source of the image exposure, a layer comprising a non-diffusible filter dye that absorbs light in the region of the spectrum to which the silver halide is sensitized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1989
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Richard P. Szajewski
  • Patent number: 4853319
    Abstract: Novel pyrazolone photographic couplers contain in the coupling position a coupling-off group represented by the formula: ##STR1## wherein: L.sub.1 and L.sub.2 individually are unsubstituted or substituted methylene or ethylene;m and n individually are 0 or 1;Y is R.sub.1 or ZR.sub.2 ;R.sub.1 is an unsubstituted or substituted aryl or heterocyclic group, or is a secondary or tertiary carbon group represented by ##STR2## wherein R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are selected from the group consisting of halogen, R.sub.2 and Z.sub.1 R.sub.b ; wherein Z is O, S, or NR.sub.a ; Z.sub.1 is O, S, or NR.sub.c ; and R.sub.2 is an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, aryl, or heterocyclic group. R.sub.5, R.sub.6, R.sub.a, R.sub.b and R.sub.c are as defined in the specification. R.sub.3 optionally joins together with at least one of R.sub.4 and R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1989
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Sundaram Krishnamurthy, Brian H. Johnston, Kenneth N. Kilminster, David C. Vogel, Paul R. Buckland
  • Patent number: 4849325
    Abstract: A light-sensitive material package unit having an exposure function is disclosed, in which said light-sensitive material comprises a support having provided thereon 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 a magenta coupler, and at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow coupler; at least one of said light-sensitive emulsion layers is composed of at least two layers being substantially the same in color sensitivity and different in sensitivity; and said light-sensitive emulsion layer composed of at least two layers contains a compound represented by formula (I)A--L.sub.1).sub.b Z.sub.1 (I)wherein A represents a component capable of releasing --(L.sub.1).sub.b Z.sub.1 upon reacting with an oxidation product of a color developing agent; L.sub.1 represents a timing group; Z.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noboru Sasaki, Keisuke Shiba
  • Patent number: 4842985
    Abstract: A conventional silver halide color photographic material is described, containing a coupler having a dye moiety having the maximum absorption wave length shifted to a short wave length by a linkage which is cleaved directly or through a timing group by a coupling reaction with the oxidation product of a developing agent and forming a compound or the precursor thereof (compound A) having a dye moiety having the maximum absorption wave length before shifting as the result of the above-described reaction and a compound capable of fixing the hue of the compound A at a long wave length and/or capable of immobilizing the compound A in the photographic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mitsunori Ono, Koji Tamoto, Keiji Mihayashi, Seiji Ichijima, Isamu Itoh, Yoshisada Nakamura
  • Patent number: 4840886
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a support is disclosed. Said silver halide emulsion layer contains at least one of the 1H-pyrazolo [3,2-c]-S-triazole derived magenta couplers that have a substituent of the following formula at 3-position:--R.sub.1 --S(O).sub.n --R.sub.2whereinR.sub.1 is an alkylene group;R.sub.2 is an alkyl, cycloalkyl or aryl group; andn is 1 or 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1989
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshifumi Iijima, Kenji Kumashiro, Hiroshi Kashiwagi, Koichi Hatta, Yuji Hotta, Hiroko Ohya, Noritaka Nakayama, Satoshi Kawakatsu, Katsunori Katoh, Kaoru Shinozaki
  • Patent number: 4840882
    Abstract: In a heat-developable color light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least two light-sensitive layers each comprising a light-sensitive silver halide, organic silver salt, dye-donating material capable of releasing or forming a diffusible dye by heat development, reducing agent, and hydrophilic binder, said at least two light-sensitive layers differing from each other in the color sensitivity of said light-sensitive silver halide and in the hue of said diffusible dye, said heat-developable color light-sensitive material, wherein at least one of said light-sensitive layer(s) containing said dye-donating materials are hardened with a hardening agent for said hydrophilic binder. The foregoing heat-developable color light-sensitive material prevents diffusion of the dye-donating material and reduces or prevents the color-crossover phenomenon. Transferability of the dye is also improved as is scratch resistance of the photographic component layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1989
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaru Iwagaki, Takashi Sasaki, Tawara Kumamura, Fumio Ishii, Kunihiro Koshizuka
  • Patent number: 4840878
    Abstract: A method for forming a color image is disclosed, which comprises imagewise exposing a multi-layer silver halide color photographic material comprising a reflective support having provided thereon at least three silver halide emulsion layers different in color sensitivity, each of which separately contains at least one coupler selected from a specific combination of cyan, magenta, and yellow couplers, and processing the exposed material with a color developing solution containing substantially no benzyl alcohol for a period of not more than 2 minutes and a half. A color image excellent in color reproducibility and preservability can be obtained rapidly without using benzyl alcohol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Hirose, Nobuo Furutachi, Kozo Aoki, Kiyoshi Nakazyo, Genichi Furusawa
  • Patent number: 4840880
    Abstract: High interimage effects and edge effects can be obtained in multilayer color photographic recording materials if yellow DIR couplers of formula I are used therein, particularly if used in green sensitized or red sensitized layers. Sharpness and color reproduction are substantially improved. ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 denotes a straight chained or branched alkyl group with up to 18 carbon atoms;R.sup.2, R.sup.3 denote identical or different alkyl groups with up to 18 carbon atoms;R.sup.4 denotes H, halogen, alkyl with up to 6 carbon atoms or alkoxy with up to 6 carbon atoms;R.sup.5 denotes H or alkyl with up to 9 carbon atoms; andR.sup.6 denotes a saturated or unsaturated aliphatic group with up to 10 carbon atoms,the total number of carbon atoms in R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 being not less than 5 and not greater than 10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1989
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans Ohlschlager, Gunter Renner, Friedrich-Wilhelm Kunitz, Heinrich Odenwalder, Dirk Hubner
  • Patent number: 4840887
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is disclosed, which comprises a support having formed thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the silver halide photographic material contains, in the silver halide emulsion layer, other hydrophilic colloid layer(s), or both, a compound represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein EAG represents an electron accepting group, --SO.sub.2 -- represents a sulfonylene group; X represents an oxygen atom (--O--), a sulfur atom (--S--) or an atomic group (--N(R.sub.2)--) containing a nitrogen atom; the single bond between --SO.sub.2 and X being cleaved after EAG receives an electron, wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each represents a simple bond or a group other than a hydrogen atom; said R.sub.1, R.sub.2, EAG may be combined with each other to form a ring; (Time) represents a group capable of releasing a photographically useful group (PUG) upon the cleavage of the SO.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Koki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 4839268
    Abstract: A silver halide color reversal pohotosensitive material is disclosed, comprising a plurality of silver halide emulsion layers on a substrate, wherein 50% or more of the total projected area of silver halide grains contained in at least one of said silver halide emulsion layers is occupied by tabular silver iodobromide grains having an average thickness of 0.5 micron or less, an average diameter of 0.5 micron or more, an average aspect ratio of at least 5/1, and a silver iodide content of 4.0 mol % or less, and said tabular silver iodobromide grains are negative-type silver halide grains forming a latent image mainly inside the grains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Shinsuki Bando
  • Patent number: 4839264
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material containing at least one of couplers represented by the general formula [I] and at least one of the compounds represented by the general formula [XII] is disclosed. ##STR1## wherein Z is a group of nonmetal atoms necessary to complete a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring where the ring formed by Z may be substituted; X is a hydrogen atom or a substituent capable of being released upon reaction with the oxidation product of a color developing agent and R is a hydrogen atom or substituent; ##STR2## wherein R.sub.21 is a hydrogen atom or a group selected from the group consisting of an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, a cycloalkyl group and aryl group, R.sub.22 and R.sub.23 are independently selected from the group consisting of an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, a cycloalkyl group and an aryl group.The photographic material provides a dye-image highly stable against heat and light, and a formation of stain at a non-image area is prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1989
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuji Kida, Yutaka Kaneko, Kenji Kadokura, Shinji Yoshimoto, Kosaku Masuda
  • Patent number: 4839267
    Abstract: Color photographic motion picture elements adapted to form a multicolor photographic dye image and an integral, infrared-absorbing, dye sound track and comprising a 1-hydroxy-2-N-(5-ballasted-thiazol-2-yl)-naphthamide coupler dispersed with the aid of a water-immiscible, high-boiling, oil-type hydrocarbon oil-former, said coupler bearing a phenyl group or a substituted phenyl group at the 4-position of the thiazol-2-yl ring and being capable of forming infrared-absorbing quinone imine dyes by reaction with an oxidized aromatic primary amino developing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1989
    Assignee: AGFA-Gevaert, N.V.
    Inventors: Marcel J. Monbaliu, Paul L. Van Meerbeeck
  • Patent number: 4837139
    Abstract: There are disclosed a processing solution of a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material, which comprises containing a compound represented by the formula (I) shown below, and a processing method of the same, which comprises subjecting a light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material having at least one layer of silver halide emulsion layer on a support to imagewise exposure and then applying processing including at least a color developing processing, characterized in that the color developing solution to be used in the color developing processing contains a compound represented by the formula (I) shown below: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms substituted with an alkoxy group, and R.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms or an alkyl group having 1 to 5 carbon atoms substituted with an alkoxy group, and R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 may be bonded with each other to form a ring containing an oxygen atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1989
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Kobayashi, Shigeharu Koboshi, Satoru Kuse, Masao Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 4837133
    Abstract: There is disclosed a photographic four-color material for the silver dye bleach process, which material, in addition to containing the customary yellow, magenta and cyan image dyes, contains a black layer which is sensitive to infra-red light.The material is suitable e.g. for testing dotted or continuous tone color separation positives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1989
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy AG
    Inventor: Jakob Kuhn
  • Patent number: 4837140
    Abstract: A color image-forming process is disclosed, which comprises imagewise exposing a silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive layer containing at least one coupler capable of forming a dye upon a reaction with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine color developing agent and a silver halide emulsion spectrally sensitized with a dye represented by the following general formula (I), (II) or (III), substantially excluding silver iodide, and containing about 80 mol % or more silver chloride, processing the exposed photographic material with a color developer, then processing it with a solution having a pH of not more than about 6.5 and having a bleaching ability within about 75 seconds: ##STR1## wherein the symbols have the meanings described hereinafter. A silver halide color photographic material to be processed in accordance with the method described above is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Ikeda, Tadashi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 4833070
    Abstract: Remarkably high interimage and Eberhard effects are obtained when yellow DIR couplers corresponding to formuls I are added to multilayered color photographic recording materials, in particular to the green-sensitive or red-sensitive layers. These couplers can improve the sharpness and color reproduction. ##STR1## R.sup.1 denoted alkyl or aryl, R.sup.2 denotes alkyl with up to 18 carbon atoms,R.sup.3 denotes halogen, SO.sub.2 --R.sup.6, SO.sub.2 --NR.sup.7 --R.sup.8 or NH--SO.sub.2 --R.sup.6,R.sup.4 denoted H, alkyl or aryl.R.sup.5 denotes alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkinyl, aralkyl or aryl,R.sup.6 denotes alkyl or aryl,R.sup.7 denotes H or alkyl andR.sup.8 denoted H, alkyl, aryl, CO--R.sup.6 or ##STR2## and the total number of carbon atoms in R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 is not greater than 11.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 23, 1989
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Friedrich-Wilhelm Kunitz, Hans hlschlager, Heinrich Odenwalder, Dirk Hubner
  • Patent number: 4830955
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support, at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing silver halide crystals, the silver chloride content of which being not less than 80 mol %, at least one compound which is represented by general formula [I], of which acid dissociation constant (Ka) and the solubility product (Ksp) with silver ion are not more than 1.times.10.sup.-8 and not more than 1.times.10.sup.-10, respectively; ##STR1## (wherein Z represents a group of atoms necessary to complete a heterocyclic ring) and at least one azaindene compound having at least one hydroxyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1989
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Makoto Kajiwara, Kaoru Onodera
  • Patent number: 4830954
    Abstract: The sensitivity of color photographic negative films may be increased without loss of color quality or sharpness by applying at least one panchromatically sensitized, highly sensitive and black-coupling layer as uppermost, additional light sensitive and dye-forming layer on the side of the film facing the object and including in the negative material sufficient DIR-Coupler to produce an interimage effect of .gtoreq.10% in the yellow region, .gtoreq.25% in the magenta region and .gtoreq.15% in the cyan region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1989
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Reinhart Matejec
  • Patent number: 4828969
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material having, upon a substrate, a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green-sensitive emulsion layer and a red-sensitive emulsion layer. The silver halide grains contained in the blue-sensitive emulsion layer is optically sensitized for maximum spectral sensitivity in the wavelength region of 450 to 500 nm, and at least one emulsion layer other than the blue-sensitive layer contains a magenta coupler represented by the following formula, the substituents of which are defined within the Specification. ##STR1## Photographic materials thus formed have both an increased blue and green sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 9, 1989
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shun Takada, Kaoru Onodera
  • Patent number: 4824771
    Abstract: Novel photographic acetanilide dye-forming couplers comprise a group comprising a stabilizer moiety represented by the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.2 is halogen or alkoxy having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; R.sup.3 is hydrogen, halogen, alkyl or alkoxy; R.sup.4, R.sup.5, R.sup.6 and R.sup.7 are individually alkyl; ##STR2## R.sup.8 and R.sup.9 are individually hydrogen or alkyl; R.sup.10 is hydrogen, alkyl or aryl; and X is a linking group. Such couplers provide advantageous stability in dyes formed from the couplers. These couplers are useful in photographic silver halide materials and processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1989
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Paul R. Buckland, John D. Goddard
  • Patent number: 4822726
    Abstract: A method for forming color images and silver halide color photographic material for use therewith are provided by the present invention. The method comprises imagewise exposing a silver halide color photographic material processing with a color developer and then successively processing with a solution having a bleaching ability and having a pH of about 6.5 or less for a period of time of about 75 seconds or less, wherein the silver halide color photographic material contains at least one light-sensitive layer on a support, the light-sensitive layer containing at least one coupler capable of forming a dye by the coupling reaction with the oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine color developing agent and a silver halide emulsion which substantially excludes silver iodide but contains silver chloride in an amount of about 80 mol % or more and which has been spectrally-sensitized with a dye as represented by general formula (I), (II) or (III) described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Ikeda, Tadashi Ogawa, Masaki Okazaki
  • Patent number: 4822728
    Abstract: A color image, wherein granularity is reduced under conditions allowing any sharpness loss to be kept under control, is obtained by image-wise exposing and developing in an alkaline water solution containing a color developer a silver halide color photographic element comprising a support base and at least a silver halide emulsion layer containing dispersed a non-diffusing hydrophobic coupler which upon reactiong with an oxidized developing agent forms a non-diffusing dye, characterized by the fact that said emulsion contains dispersed therein oil droplets, said droplets containing said non-diffusing coupler dissolved therein, and furthermore polymer particles in a quantity sufficient to obtain controlled smearing of the image-forming dye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1989
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Marco Loiacono, Angelo Vallarino
  • Patent number: 4822729
    Abstract: Cyan-forming color couplers according to the formula: ##STR1## wherein Z is hydrogen or a coupling off group, R.sup.1 is hydrogen, a halogen atom, alkyl, or alkoxy, R.sup.2 is hydrogen or alkyl, R.sub.3 is hydrogen, a halogen atom, alkyl, alkoxy, alkylsulphonyl, alkanamidosulphonyl, alkoxycarbonyl, alkanamidocarbonyl, alkanamido, alkylsulphonamido, or cyano, R.sup.4 is a substituent standing at the 3- or 6-position of the phenol and selected from hydrogen, a halogen atom, and alkyl, and n is 0 or 1. These couplers can be incorporated into (a) red-sensitized silver halide emulsion layer(s) of a photographic multilayer color element or in a non-light-sensitive colloid layer in water-permeable relationship with the red-sensitized emulsion layer(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 18, 1989
    Assignee: AGFA-Gevaert, N.V.
    Inventors: Marcel J. Monbaliu, Paul L. Van Meerbeeck
  • Patent number: 4820614
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light sensitive material improved in suitability for rapid processing and in color forming efficiency, spectral absorption property and fastness of the cyan image is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1989
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Shun Takada, Kazuhiro Murai, Kaoru Onodera
  • Patent number: 4820616
    Abstract: The sensitivity of highly sensitive color photographic recording materials may be enhanced by compounds releasing fogging or development accelerating compounds as a result of a reaction with color developer oxidation products and fogging may at the same time be reduced by using compounds corresponding to formula I as silver halide stabilizers: ##STR1## wherein Z denotes the atoms required for completing an oxazole or oxazine ring andY denotes a condensed aromatic ring system having at least one aromatic ring optionally substituted with an acid group, or a substituent carrying an acid group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1989
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Reinhart Matejec, Manfred Becker, Heinrich Odenwalder, Hans-Joerg Metz
  • Patent number: 4818670
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is disclosed, which has high image quality in addition to high sensitivity. The photographic material comprises a support and at least one silver halide light-sensitive emulsion layer containing a compound being capable of splitting off a diffusible development-inhibitor or a precursor thereof upon a reaction with an oxidized product of a color developing agent. At least one of the silver halide light-sensitive emulsion layer layer and a layer adjacent to the light-sensitive emulsion layer contains a silver halide emulsion comprising a silver halide grain having an internal fog nucleus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1989
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiko Yagi, Hiroshi Shimazaki
  • Patent number: 4818667
    Abstract: In a silver halide color photographic material which has red-, green- and blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers on a support, the improvement wherein the total thickness of the hydrophilic colloid layers is not more than 18 .mu.m on a dry basis and at least one silver halide emulsion layer contains a cyan dye-forming coupler represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## where R.sub.1 is an optionally substituted alkyl, aryl or heterocyclic group; Ar is an optionally substituted aryl group; and X is a group that may be eliminated upon coupling reaction with the oxidized product of a color developing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1989
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumio Hamada, Hiroshi Shimazaki
  • Patent number: 4818663
    Abstract: A radiation-sensitive element suitable for the preparation of half-tone color proofs comprising a substrate bearing at least four separate positive acting imaging media coated thereon, said imaging media including:(1) an imaging medium capable of forming a yellow image upon imagewise exposure and processing,(2) an imaging medium capable fo forming a magenta image upon imagewise exposure and processing,(3) an imaging medium capable of forming a cyan image upon imagewise exposure and processing, and(4) an imaging medium capable of forming a black image or a balancing black image upon imagewise exposure and processing,each imaging medium (1), (2) and (3) having a maximum spectral sensitivity at a wavelength different from that of the maxiumu sensitivity of the other imaging medium of (1) to (3), the imaging medium (4) having spectral sensitivity at each of the wavelengths of the maximum sensitivity of the other imaging media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1989
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Stephen R. Powers, Thomas D. G. Hellings
  • Patent number: 4818664
    Abstract: A process for processing a silver halide color photographic material which comprises processing, after color development, a silver halide color photographic material with a processing solution having a bleaching faculty using an aminopolycarboxylic acid ferric complex salt as an oxidizing agent, said color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one compound releasing by the reaction with an oxidation product of a developing agent a group releasing or forming development inhibitor by the reaction with another molecule of an oxidation product of a developing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji Ueda, Keiji Mihayashi, Seiji Ichijima
  • Patent number: 4818668
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is described, containing at least one coupler represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted ureido group or a substituted or unsubstituted acrylamino group; R.sub.2 represents substituted or unsubstituted acylamino group; L represents a group which is capable of being released from the phenolic group of formula (I) in a reaction with the oxidation product of a developing agent, and releases -O-A thereafter; n represents 0 or 1; and A represents an aromatic group including a hydroxy group or a substituted or unsubstituted amino group at least one of the 2-position and the 4-position thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Ichijima, Hideo Usui, Kohzaburoh Yamada
  • Patent number: 4814827
    Abstract: A radiation-sensitive element for half tone color proofing adapted to be exposed by scanning with four independently modulated sources of radiation emitting at different wavelengths within the range 550 to 900 nm, the element comprising a substrate bearing at least four separate imaging media coated thereon, said imaging media including:(1) an imaging medium capable of forming a yellow image upon imagewise exposure and processing,(2) an imaging medium capable of forming a magenta image upon imagewise exposure and processing,(3) an imaging medium capable of forming a cyan image upon imagewise exposure and processing, and(4) an imaging medium capable of forming a black or a balancing black image upon imagewise exposure and processing,each imaging medium having a maximum spectral sensitivity at a wavelength different from that of the maximum sensitivity of the other imaging media such that after exposure and processing super-imposed yellow, magenta, cyan and black or balancing black images are formed, each image
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1989
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Jonathan P. Kitchin, Stephen R. Powers, Keith A. Penfound, Peter J. Finn, Michael G. Fisher
  • Patent number: 4814261
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material is disclosed. The photographic material comprises a support having provided thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, the silver halide emulsion layer or a layer adjacent to the emulsion layer comprising a compound represented by the following formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, and R.sub.3, which may be the same or different, each represents a hydrogen atom or a group cleaved by an alkali; R.sub.4 represents an electron attracting group having .sigma..rho. value of Hammett's substituent constant of 0.3 or more; R.sub.5 represents a group substitutable on the benzene ring; n represents 0 or 1; and DI represents a development restrainer or a precursor thereof; and when any two of R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 are adjacent each other, each of the two groups may represent a divalent group and the two groups may be bonded to form a heterocyclic group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seiji Ichijima, Shigeo Hirano
  • Patent number: 4812391
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material having good granularity, high sensitivity and excellent fixability, comprising a support and at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing silver halide grains. The silver halide grains have an average iodine content of at least 3 mole %, and the photographic material further contains a polymer capable of providing a cation site in a fixing solution on the same side as the photosensitive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ichizo Toya, Tomokazu Yasuda
  • Patent number: 4812389
    Abstract: A process for processing a DIR coupler-containing silver halide color photographic material for photographing use in a continuous manner with replenishment of a developer is disclosed in which said DIR coupler is a coupler which has in a coupling site a group that functions as a development inhibitor or a development inhibitor precursor upon being eliminated from the coupling active site by color development processing and that will be decomposed to a compound exerting substantially no influences on photographic properties after flowing into a color developing solution, said development inhibitor having a half-value period of 4 hours or shorter than that at a pH of 10.0, and in which the developing solution is replenished in an amount of 700 ml or less per m.sup.2 of developed light-sensitive materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kei Sakanoue, Seiji Ichijima, Shinzo Kishimoto
  • Patent number: 4806459
    Abstract: A color photographic material comprising a support having provided thereon a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing at least one coupler capable of reacting with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent to form a yellow dye, at least one coupler capable of reacting with said oxidation product to form a cyan dye and not to produce a diffusible development inhibitor or a precursor thereof, and at least one compound capable of reacting with said oxidation product to produce a diffusible development inhibitor or a precursor thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsumi Makino, Noboru Sasaki, Koji Takahashi
  • Patent number: 4806460
    Abstract: A multilayer silver halide color photographic material is described, comprising a support having thereon at least two light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers, each having a different color sensitivity, and having associated therewith dye-forming agents forming imaging dyes, each having a different hue, wherein at least one dye of a hue substantially not contributing to the formation of the hue of a specific image of a region that the image density of at least one of said imaging dyes is above a definite density value of from 1.2 to 2.5 is provided so as to provide gradation to the specific image region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tadashi Ogawa, Koji Takahashi, Seiichi Taguchi
  • Patent number: 4804619
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material improved in image quality such as sharpness and graininess is disclosed. The silver halide color photographic material is comprises support having thereon photographic component layers comprising at least two silver halide emulsion layers, adjacently arranged to each other, having the same color sensitivity and different speed from each other. In this photographic material the highest speed layer among these emulsion layers contains a DIR compound capable of releasing a diffusible development inhibitor or a diffusible compound capable of releasing a development inhibitor, and the total thickness of the silver halide emulsion layers is within the range of from 1.5 .mu.m to 5 .mu.m, and the silver halide emulsion layers are allowed to have the interposition of a non-light-sensitive intermediate layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1989
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Yamada, Masao Iwamura
  • Patent number: 4803152
    Abstract: A photogrphic light-sensitive material comparing a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the silver halide emulsion layer comprises a silver chlorobromide emulsion which is substantially free of iodide and has a chloride content which satisfies the following relationship (I) between a mean mole % of silver chloride in grain group (A), in which the grains have sizes not less than the median size in the grain size distribution, and a mean mole % of silver chloride in grain group (B) in which the grains have sizes less than the median size, whereby excellent gradation and wide exposure latitude are achieved, and there is a small dependence on the development conditions.Relationship (I): 1.ltoreq.[Mean mol % of silver chloride in grain group (A)]-[Mean mol % of silver chloride in grain group (B)].ltoreq.99.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuhito Momoki, Kazunori Hasebe
  • Patent number: 4801520
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Inoue, Tatsuo Heki
  • Patent number: 4792518
    Abstract: A silver halide color reversal reflection print photosensitive material comprises at least one blue-sensitive layer, at least one green-sensitive layer and at least one red-sensitive layer on a support. In the characteristic curves of the color sensitive layers, a fluctuation width of point-gammas and absolute values of point-gammas are defined. The distribution of the grain size of the silver halide grains in silver halide emulsions contained in the color sensitive layer can be controlled by forming the grains in the presence of a silver halide solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 20, 1988
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigeru Kuwashima, Akio Mitsui, Masaru Sano
  • Patent number: 4791051
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is disclosed, comprising a support and at least silver halide emulsion layers on the support, wherein at least one of said emulsion layers contains at least one 2-equivalent 5-pyrazolone polymer coupler and at least one of the other emulsion layers contains at least one phenol cyan coupler having an acylamino group in the 5-position and a ureido group in the 2-position. The present material is advantageous over conventional materials in that the color balance of the image dyes remains unchanged over long periods of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1988
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kei Sakanoue, Tsumoru Hirano
  • Patent number: 4791049
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the silver halide photographic material contains at least one compound represented by the following general formula (I):A--Time).sub.t X (I)wherein A represents an oxidation reduction moiety comprising an atomic group which does not enable --Time).sub.t X to be released until the oxidation reduction moiety is oxidized during photographic development processing; Time represents a timing group which is connected to A through a sulfur atom, a nitrogen atom or an oxygen atom; t represents an integer of 0 or 1; and X represents a group represented by the following general formula (II): ##STR1## wherein R represents a straight chain or branched chain alkylene group, a straight chain or branched chain alkenylene group, a straight chain or branched chain aralkylene group or an arylene group; Z represents a polar substituent; Y represents ##STR2## R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, R.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1988
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuro Kojima, Shigeo Hirano, Hideo Usui
  • Patent number: 4789624
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material which contains a high speed reactive type coupler having a relative coupling speed of 0.35 to 1.0 and a compound represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R represents a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic group, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic group, or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group.The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material provides color images having greatly improved graininess in both high density areas and low density areas, without adversely affecting sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1988
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kei Sakanoue, Shigeo Hirano, Takehiko Ueda, Keiichi Adachi
  • Patent number: 4788132
    Abstract: A silver halide color reversal photographic material is disclosed which comprises a support and at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer on the support, which material is characterized in that at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer or at least one layer adjacent thereto contains at least one of the compounds represented by the following general formulae (I), (II), (III) and (IV): ##STR1## All the symbols used are as defined in the Specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1988
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoyasu Deguchi, Tetsuro Kojima, Hideo Miyazaki, Shigeru Ohno, Koki Nakamura
  • Patent number: 4788133
    Abstract: A recording material having improved sharpness and color reproduction contains as uppermost layer a green-sensitive silver chloride emulsion having a layered grain structure, the ratio of diameter to thickness of the silver halide grains being at most 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1988
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Sauerteig, Gunter Renner, Sieghart Klotzer, Jens-Peter Grimm
  • Patent number: 4784938
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material which is improved on fog without decreasing photosensitivity. The photographic material comprises a support and a photographic structural layer provided thereon containing at least one silver halide emulsion layer and at least one non-light-sensitive layer. A nitrogen-containing heterocyclic mercapto compound is contained at least two layers of the photographic structure layer, and at least one of these mercapto compound-containing layer is a non-light-sensitive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1986
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1988
    Assignee: Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Obhayashi, Shinichi Nakamura, Shigeo Tanaka, Mitsuhiro Okumura, Masanobu Miyoshi, Makoto Kajiwara, Kaoru Onodera, Eiichi Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 4783394
    Abstract: A color image forming process is described, which comprises developing an imagewise exposed silver halide color photographic material with a color developer containing an aromatic primary amine developing agent and being substantially free of benzyl alcohol for a period of up to about 2 minutes and 30 seconds, wherein the silver halide color photographic material comprises a reflective support having thereon a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow color-forming coupler, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer contaning a magenta color-forming coupler, and a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan color-forming coupler in this order, the material further containing light-insensitive hydrophilic colloid layers between the blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and the green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and between the green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and the red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one light-insensit
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1988
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Hirose, Kiyoshi Nakazyo, Hideaki Naruse
  • Patent number: 4780400
    Abstract: Silver halide light-sensitive emulsions are protected against latent image fading by an effective amount of a 2-unsubstituted N-alkenyl-thiazolium salt compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1988
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Walter Beltramini, Francesco Squarcia
  • Patent number: 4777122
    Abstract: A high sensitivity multilayer color photographic material is disclosed. The material is comprised of a support base having coated thereon red-sensitive, green-sensitive and blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers associated with non-diffusing image-forming couplers. The red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer comprises an upper, an intermediate and a lower silver halide emulsion layer, sensitive to visible light in the same or substantially the same spectral wavelength range, with the sensitivity of the layers decreasing in order from the upper layer to the lower layer. The green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer comprises an upper and a lower silver halide emulsion layer, sensitive to visible light in about the same spectral wavelength range, with the sensitivity of the layers decreasing in order from the upper layer to the lower layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1988
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Walter Beltramini