Developing Inhibitor Or Processing Ingredient Containing Patents (Class 430/505)
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Publication number: 20020055073Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising, on a support, a unit blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, unit green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and unit red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, each of which includes not less than two color-sensitive layers differing in sensitivity, wherein tabular grains having an aspect ratio of not less than 5.0 account for not less than 60% of the total projected area of silver halide grains contained in an emulsion layer having the highest sensitivity in each unit color-sensitive layer, and a grain number indicated by specific equation is not more than 1.00.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2001Publication date: May 9, 2002Inventors: Ryoji Nishimura, Yasushi Nozawa
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Patent number: 6383728Abstract: A color photographic silver halide material having a support and at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer which is associated with a cyan coupler of the formula (I): in which R1, R2, R3, Z1, Y1 and n have the meaning stated in the description, is distinguished by elevated dye stability of the dye produced from the coupler by chromogenic processing.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2000Date of Patent: May 7, 2002Assignee: Agfa-GevaertInventors: Jörg Hagemann, Jan Haller, Günter Helling
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Publication number: 20020051945Abstract: Disclosed is a photographic element comprising a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a cyan “NB coupler” having the formula (I): 1Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2001Publication date: May 2, 2002Inventors: William J. Begley, Frank D. Coms, Gary M. Russo
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Patent number: 6379879Abstract: A color photographic recording material having at least one spectrally sensitized silver halide emulsion layer, characterized in that said silver halide emulsion layer contains an oil former having a pKa value of less than 18 and a DIR coupler and the material contains at least one color coupler, wherein the color coupler and/or the DIR coupler have specific structures, is distinguished by an increased interimage effect in comparison with the prior art without sensitivity being reduced.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2001Date of Patent: April 30, 2002Assignee: Agfa-GevaertInventors: Jörg Hagemann, Günter Helling, Heinz Wiesen, Ralf Wirowski, Ralf Büscher
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Patent number: 6379878Abstract: A silver halide color photosensitive material having at least one blue-sensitive emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive emulsion layer, and at least one red-sensitive emulsion layer on a support, wherein the red-sensitive emulsion layer has the maximum value of sensitivity in a wavelength region of 580 nm to 650 nm, and the green-sensitive emulsion layer contains at least one magenta coupler represented by formula (MC-1) below: wherein the substituent are defined herein the specification.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2000Date of Patent: April 30, 2002Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoto Matsuda, Yoshio Shimura, Tetsuo Nakamura, Hisashi Mikoshiba
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Patent number: 6372418Abstract: A silver halide light sensitive photographic print element is disclosed comprising a support bearing on one side thereof: a blue color sensitive record comprising at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion yellow-image forming layer, a red color sensitive record comprising at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion cyan-image forming layer, and a green color sensitive record comprising at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion magenta-image forming layer; wherein the overall contrast (OC) of the green record is greater than 1.7, the mid-scale contrast (MSC) of the green record is less than 2.6, and the upper-scale contrast (USC) of the green record is from 2.85 to 3.15, wherein the parameters OC, MSC and USC are as defined herein. Color print film silver halide photographic elements in accordance with the invention enable the production of outstanding projected images having improved flesh tone and shadow detail reproduction, and sufficiently high black densities.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2000Date of Patent: April 16, 2002Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Kathleen R. C. Gisser, Esther M. Betancourt, Leslie Gutierrez, Sandra M. Finn, Susan K. Mroczek, Christopher J. Haller
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Publication number: 20020042030Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material including at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer on a support, and having an ISO sensitivity of 640 or more, wherein the material exhibits a color saturation evaluation value &eegr;, represented by equation (I) below, of −15 dB or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2001Publication date: April 11, 2002Inventors: Yoichi Suga, Hideto Ikoma, Jun Okamoto
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Patent number: 6368758Abstract: This invention relates to a decorative package comprising a package having adhered thereto a label comprising a transparent polymer sheet, and at least one dye containing layer is on each side of said sheet, wherein there are at least four separate dye containing layers and the dye containing layers comprise at least four spectrally distinct colors.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2000Date of Patent: April 9, 2002Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Alphonse D. Camp, James L. Edwards, Robert P. Bourdelais, Peter T. Aylward
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Patent number: 6368759Abstract: The invention relates to an imaging element comprising a transparent polymer sheet, and at least one photosensitive dye forming coupler containing layer is on each side of said transparent sheet, wherein there are at least four separate photosensitive layers and the photosensitive layers comprise at least four dye forming couplers that form at least four spectrally distinct colors, and wherein said imaging element is adhered to a transmissive polymer sheet that has a spectral transmissiveness of greater than 15 and less than 90%.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2000Date of Patent: April 9, 2002Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Robert P. Bourdelais, Peter T. Aylward, Alphonse D. Camp, James L. Edwards
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Publication number: 20020031734Abstract: A colour photographic material comprising a transparent support, at least one blue-sensitive, predominantly yellow-coupling silver halide emulsion layer, at least one green-sensitive, predominantly magenta-coupling silver halide emulsion layer (PP-1) and at least one red-sensitive, predominantly cyan-coupling silver halide emulsion layer (BG-1), characterised in that the spectral sensitivity distribution of BG-1 is characterised in thatType: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2001Publication date: March 14, 2002Inventors: Klaus Wagner, Heinz Schtz, Peter Bell, Lothar Endres, Detlev Kapitza, Thomas Stetzer
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Publication number: 20020031731Abstract: A method for processing a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material. The material has, on a support, at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer comprising a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion, a compound that forms a dye by a coupling reaction with a developing agent in an oxidized form, and a binder. The method comprises processing the light-sensitive material such that a silver density of the at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer during development is 4×105 g/m3 or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2001Publication date: March 14, 2002Inventor: Junichiro Hosokawa
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Publication number: 20020025497Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material has a red-, green-, and blue-sensitive emulsion layer in this order from the side closest to a support.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2001Publication date: February 28, 2002Inventors: Naoto Matsuda, Hisashi Mikoshiba
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Patent number: 6350564Abstract: Disclosed is a color silver halide photographic element comprising a support bearing: (1) a light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer; (2) a nitrogen heterocycle with a minimum of three heteroatoms that does not react with oxidized developer, does not contain free thiol substituents, and has a ClogP sufficient to increase the photographic speed of said element compared to the same element without the compound, said heterocycle compound located either in said light sensitive layer or in a layer adjacent to it; and (3) a light reflecting silver halide material; provided that the heterocycle compound and the light reflecting material are located either (a) in different layers of the element located close enough to each other so that a super-additive speed increase is realized or (b) in the same light sensitive layer. The invention provides improved light sensitivity.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2000Date of Patent: February 26, 2002Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Joseph F. Bringley, James A. Friday, Stephen P. Singer, Marcello Vitale
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Patent number: 6350565Abstract: A color photographic element containing a support bearing: (a) a red record comprising, in order from the support, a less and a more red light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, each having associated therewith at least one cyan dye-forming coupler; (b) further from the support a green record comprising, in order from the support, a less and a more green light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, each having associated therewith at least one magenta dye-forming coupler, and (c) still further from the support, a blue record comprising in order from the support, a less and a more blue light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, each having associated therewith at least one yellow dye-forming coupler; wherein: (d) there is located below and only below the most red light sensitive layer of the red record a relatively non-light sensitive “small 3-D emulsion layer” that is substantially free of red light absorbing dye.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2000Date of Patent: February 26, 2002Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Joseph F. Bringley, James A. Friday, Marcello Vitale
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Patent number: 6348302Abstract: An image-forming method using an exposure head having plural beam light sources that correspond to each exposure point and that emit each light with the same wavelength, to subject to exposure a light-sensitive material provided at least with a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion and a binder on a support, which method comprises arranging M sets of the beam light sources in a sub-scanning direction, perpendicular to a main scanning direction, along which the exposure head is moved, at predetermined intervals, and allowing the light-sensitive material to move in the sub-scanning direction, in steps of a distance of (the length of the exposure head in the aligned direction)/N (N≧2), to carry out superposing exposure N times, with an exposure time per exposure being 10−3 sec or less, thereby forming M×N pixels per exposure head in every M sets of exposure point, to form an image, wherein the silver halide emulsion contains Ir, in an amount to be added of 10−7 to 10−10 mol per mol ofType: GrantFiled: July 13, 2000Date of Patent: February 19, 2002Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Takuji Kosugi
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Publication number: 20020018972Abstract: Blocked photographically useful groups decompose thermally via a Lossen rearrangement reaction, including, for example, compounds represented by the following structure: 1Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2001Publication date: February 14, 2002Inventors: Wojciech K. Slusarek, Xiqiang Yang, David H. Levy
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Patent number: 6346371Abstract: The invention provides a photographic element comprising at least one emulsion layer comprising at least 50 mol % silver chloride, which layer comprises at least one DIR coupler in association with at least one image dye-forming coupler, characterised in that the relative reactivity ratio krel of at least one DIR coupler and an associated image coupler is less than or equal to 1.0, wherein krel=k1/k2; k1=the second order rate constant for the reaction of DIR coupler with oxidised developer and k2=the second order rate constant for the reaction of image coupler with oxidised developer. The DIR couplers when associated with image couplers such that the above condition is satisfied efficiently reduce development of silver halide emulsions containing at least 50 mol % silver chloride, there being a reduction in contrast providing a linear sensitometric curve over a good latitude with negligible speed penalty.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2001Date of Patent: February 12, 2002Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Andrew S. Craig, Richard P. Szajewski
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Patent number: 6346368Abstract: A silver halide color reversal photographic material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow dye-forming coupler, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta dye-forming coupler and a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan dye-forming coupler, wherein a RMS value at a density of 0.8 of the red-sensitive layer is within a range of 20 to 90% of a RMS value at a density of 0.8 of the green-sensitive layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2000Date of Patent: February 12, 2002Assignee: Konica CorporationInventor: Yasushi Irie
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Publication number: 20020012886Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel blocked phenylenediamine developer useful, in reactive association, for enabling, on development, a non-magenta color, for example a cyan color, from a dye-forming coupler. In one embodiment, the developer has the property that the dye color formed with the coupler is distinctly different from the color formed by the same coupler with an oxidized form of the conventional developer 4-(N-ethyl-N-2-hydroxyethyl)-2-methylphenylenediamine. The invention is also directed to a light-sensitive silver-halide color photographic element comprising the blocked developing agent according to the present invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2001Publication date: January 31, 2002Applicant: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Richard P. Szajewski, Lyn M. Irving
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Publication number: 20020009677Abstract: A light sensitive silver halide color photographic element having a common chromogenic coupler and a distinct developer associated with each color forming layer unit is disclosed. In a first embodiment, the light sensitive silver halide color photographic element has a red light sensitive silver halide layer unit and a first blocked coupling developer, a green light sensitive silver halide layer unit and a second blocked coupling developer and a blue light sensitive silver halide layer unit having a third blocked coupling developer and wherein each layer unit has the same chromogenic coupler. In a second embodiment, the light sensitive silver halide color photographic element has a red light sensitive silver halide layer unit and a first blocked coupling developer, a green light sensitive silver halide layer unit and a second blocked coupling developer and a blue light sensitive silver halide layer unit having a third blocked coupling developer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2001Publication date: January 24, 2002Inventors: Richard P. Szajewski, Lyn M. Irving
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Publication number: 20020009679Abstract: A multilayer silver halide color photographic material, wherein when the multilayer silver halide color photographic material is development processed with a color developing solution containing a p-phenylenediamine derivative as a color developing agent, the relationship between the development proceeding velocity a of the lowermost layer of the constituting emulsion layers of the photographic material and the development proceeding velocity b of the uppermost layer satisfies the following equation (R-1):Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2001Publication date: January 24, 2002Applicant: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kazuaki Yoshida, Yasuaki Deguchi, Hiroyuki Yoneyama
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Publication number: 20020008884Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of scanning silver-halide-containing color photographic and photothermographic film. In particular, the present invention comprises record shifting by means by employing at least one infrared dye in a color unit of the film, thereby forming at least one image record in the infrared. This expedient leads to the formation of high quality images, especially when scanning photothermographic elements in which the silver halide, metallic silver, and/or any organic silver salts have not been removed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2001Publication date: January 24, 2002Inventors: Richard P. Szajewski, David H. Levy
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Patent number: 6338940Abstract: A silver halide photographic light sensitive material IS DISCLOSED, comprising a support having thereon a yellow dye image forming layer, a magenta dye image forming layer and a cyan dye image forming layer, wherein when the photographic material is subjected to exposure of not more than 10−3 sec. per pixel element and further to color developing to form yellow, magenta and cyan images, a variation at multiple exposure, based on non-multiple exposure, of an average gradation, which is a slope that connects two pints corresponding to densities of 0.5 and 1.5 on a characteristic curve of each of the yellow, magenta and cyan images, is not more than 10%.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 1999Date of Patent: January 15, 2002Assignee: Konica CorporationInventors: Kazuhiro Miyazawa, Junji Ito, Yumiko Nimura, Shinichi Suzuki, Makoto Kaga, Shuji Murakami
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Patent number: 6337177Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic material comprising a support, photosensitive silver halide emulsion layers grouped into at least three units according to their color sensitivities, each of which comprises a blue-sensitive, green-sensitive or red-sensitive silver halide emulsion, a color developing agent and a coupler, and a light-insensitive layer, wherein the photographic material has a total silver coverage of at most 5.0 g/m2, and at least one emulsion comprised in the highest-speed emulsion layer of at least one of each unit is a tabular silver halide emulsion that comprises tabular silver halide grains having an average thickness of from 0.05 to 0.20 &mgr;m.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 1999Date of Patent: January 8, 2002Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Makoto Kikuchi
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Publication number: 20020001783Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material, which has at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow coupler, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta coupler, and at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan coupler, provided on a support, wherein at least one layer of said light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers contains a silver halide emulsion comprising silver halide grains having a silver chloride content of 95 mol % or more, and wherein, with respect to each of characteristic curves obtained by a color development of said light-sensitive material after exposure, a specific relationship as defined by the density and the exposure amount is satisfied.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2000Publication date: January 3, 2002Inventor: Akito Yokozawa
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Patent number: 6326131Abstract: An imaging element is disclosed comprising a support, an imaging layer, and an outermost protective layer on at least one side of the support which comprises a lubricant and an additive which is immiscible with and more surface active than the lubricant, wherein the lubricant is present in an amount of at least 5 mg/m2 and the additive is present in an amount of at least 25 wt percent relative to that of the lubricant, the amount of additive being effective to increase the coefficient of friction for the outermost layer after coating and drying thereof relative to that obtained in the absence of the additive material. Imaging elements comprising highly lubricated protective outermost layers in accordance with the invention advantageously provide increased scratch and wear resistance, while the presence of an additive which is immiscible with and more surface active than the lubricant surprisingly has been found to increase the coefficient of friction to provide good manufacturability of the imaging element.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2000Date of Patent: December 4, 2001Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Brian A. Schell, Mridula Nair
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Patent number: 6322959Abstract: A silver halide color photographic lightsensitive material comprises a support and, superimposed thereon, a yellow color-forming blue-sensitive emulsion layer, a magenta color-forming green-sensitive emulsion layer containing a magenta coupler represented by a general formula (MC-1): and a cyan color-forming red-sensitive emulsion layer containing a cyan coupler represented by a general formula (NC-1):Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2000Date of Patent: November 27, 2001Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Naoto Matsuda
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Patent number: 6319660Abstract: Disclosed is a color photographic element comprising at least one of (1) a light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and (2) a non-silver containing light insensitive layer, said at least one layer containing a compound with a minimum of three heteroatoms that does not react with oxidized developer and that has a ClogP sufficient to increase the photographic speed of said element compared to the same element without the compound. The invention provides improved light sensitivity.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 1999Date of Patent: November 20, 2001Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Philip A. Allway, Bernard A. Clark, John D. Goddard, Louis E. Friedrich, James A. Friday, Stephen P. Singer, Marcello Vitale
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Patent number: 6312880Abstract: The invention relates to a multilayer photographic element comprising a reflective support wherein the color record 1 adjacent to the support comprises at least one light sensitive layer and a non-light sensitive dye-forming interlayer; and wherein color record 2 above said color record 1 comprises at least one light sensitive layer and at least two non-light sensitive dye-forming interlayers and wherein color record 3 above said color record 2 comprises at least one light sensitive layer and a non-light sensitive dye-forming interlayer; and a top overcoat layer comprising gelatin and ultraviolet absorbing material; and wherein each interlayer is substantially scavenger free, and color records 1, 2, and 3 comprise silver halide grains comprising greater than 90% silver chloride, and wherein the reciprocity characteristics of the silver halide grains are such that for a separation exposure of 1 microsecond and 0.4 sec, at least one color record develops to a density of at least 2.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 1999Date of Patent: November 6, 2001Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Michael R. Roberts, Hwei-Ling Yau, Glenn M. Brown
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Patent number: 6309811Abstract: Disclosed is a color photographic element comprising: a) a first light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a compound with an aromatic bicyclic nitrogen nucleus of which at least one ring is six-membered and with two nitrogen ring atoms in each ring and with at least one N—H bond provided that the ClogP for the compound is at least 2.0 and less than 7.2; and (b) a second light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, having a spectral sensitivity different from that of the first light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, containing a compound of Formula III: COUP-(TIME)j-INH III wherein: COUP is a coupler parent group capable of forming a dye upon reaction with an oxidized developer; TIME is a timing group and j is 0,1 or 2; and INH is a mild silver development inhibitor fragment. The invention provides improved color reproduction.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 1999Date of Patent: October 30, 2001Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Philip A. Allway, Louis E. Friedrich, Stephen P. Singer
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Publication number: 20010031433Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a support, said at least one emulsion layer containing a magenta coupler represented by formula (M-1): 1Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2001Publication date: October 18, 2001Inventors: Yoshio Shimura, Hiroshi Fukuzawa, Hisashi Mikoshiba
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Patent number: 6296995Abstract: The invention relates to A reflective base photographic element comprising a support material comprising a microvoided biaxially oriented polymer sheet having an upper surface L* of at least 93.5 and imaging layers wherein said imaging layers have an exposure range of between 125 to 0.5 when there is a Status A reflection density shoulder loss of no more than 8 percent as a function of the cyan record, wherein said photographic element has an exposure range of at least 125 nanoseconds to 0.5 seconds when there is a Status A reflection density shoulder loss of no more than 8 percent as a function of the magenta color record, wherein said photographic element has an exposure range of at least 125 nanoseconds to 0.5 seconds when there is a Status A reflection density shoulder loss of no more than 4 percent as a function of the yellow color record, and wherein said photographic element has a Status A reflection density minimum of less than 0.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2000Date of Patent: October 2, 2001Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Alphonse D. Camp, Peter T. Aylward, Robert P. Bourdelais
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Patent number: 6296994Abstract: A color photographic element particularly useful for colorimetrically accurate recording of scene exposures is disclosed, which is capable of producing differentiable dye images suitable for scanning and electronic image processing. The element has red, green and blue light recording silver halide emulsion layer units and provides broad, hypsochromic green spectral sensitivity that overlaps with the red spectral sensitivity. The wavelength of maximum sensitivity of the red recording emulsion layer unit is between about 580 and 620 nm, the wavelength of maximum sensitivity of the green recording emulsion layer unit is between about 520 and 565 nm, the relative sensitivity of the green recording emulsion layer unit at 50% of the maximum sensitivity exhibits an overall breadth of at least about 65 nm, and the relative sensitivity of the green recording emulsion layer unit at 520 nm is at least 60% of the maximum.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 1999Date of Patent: October 2, 2001Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Allan F. Sowinski, Lois A. Buitano, Steven G. Link
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Patent number: 6280916Abstract: The invention relates to a multilayer photographic element comprising a reflective support wherein the color record 1 adjacent to the support comprises at least one light sensitive layer and a non-light sensitive dye-forming interlayer; and wherein color record 2 above said color record 1 comprises at least one light sensitive layer and at least two non-light sensitive dye-forming interlayers and wherein color record 3 comprises at least one light sensitive layer and a non-light sensitive dye-forming interlayer; an optional UV dye containing interlayer; and top overcoat; and wherein each interlayer is substantially scavenger free, silver halide grains comprising greater than 90% silver chloride, and wherein the reciprocity characteristics of the silver halide grains are such that for a separation exposure of 1 microsecond and 0.4 sec, each color record develops to a density of at least 2.0 within a log exposure range of 1.2 or less relative to the exposure point producing a density 0.04 above Dmin.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 1999Date of Patent: August 28, 2001Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventor: Michael R. Roberts
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Publication number: 20010016304Abstract: A color photographic silver halide material having a support and at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer which is associated with a cyan coupler of the formula (I): 1Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2000Publication date: August 23, 2001Inventors: Jorg Hagemann, Jan Haller, Gunter Helling
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Patent number: 6277548Abstract: A motion picture film photographic element is disclosed comprising a support having on a front side thereof a subbing layer unit and one or more image-forming units comprising at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer coated over the subbing layer unit, wherein the layers coated on the front side of the support comprise in total from 5 to 30 mg/m2 of dispersed carbon particles, and the majority of the dispersed carbon particles is contained in the emulsion layer or layers of the one or more image forming units or in intercoat layers which may be present between two emulsion layers. The motion picture photographic film clement provides improved performance when marked by means of a laser beam.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2000Date of Patent: August 21, 2001Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Gary N. Barber, Christopher J. Haller, Mary C. Brick
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Publication number: 20010010895Abstract: Disclosed is a color photographic element comprising:Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 1999Publication date: August 2, 2001Inventors: PHILIP A. ALLWAY, LOUIS E. FRIEDRICH, STEPHEN P. SINGER
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Patent number: 6268116Abstract: The invention relates to a multilayer photographic element comprising a reflective support wherein the color record 1 adjacent to the support comprises at least one light sensitive layer and a non-light sensitive dye-forming interlayer; and wherein color record 2 above said color record 1 comprises at least one light sensitive layer and at least two non-light sensitive dye-forming interlayers and wherein color record 3 comprises at least one light sensitive layer and a non-light sensitive dye-forming interlayer; an optional UV dye containing interlayer and a top overcoat; and wherein each interlayer is completely or substantially scavenger free, silver halide grains comprising greater than 90% silver chloride, and wherein the reciprocity characteristics of the silver halide grains are such that for a separation exposure of 1 microsecond and 0.4 sec, each color record develops to a density of at least 2.0 within a log exposure range of 1.2 or less relative to the exposure point producing a density 0.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 1999Date of Patent: July 31, 2001Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Michael R. Roberts, Gary J. McSweeney, Alphonse D. Camp
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Publication number: 20010008749Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light sensitive material is disclosed, comprising a support having thereon a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers, wherein at least one of the silver halide emulsion layers contains a coupler represented by the following formula: 1Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2000Publication date: July 19, 2001Inventors: Osamu Ishige, Emiko Kataoka, Hiroyuki Hoshino
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Patent number: 6261756Abstract: The present invention refers to a light-sensitive silver halide multilayer color photographic element having a support base and coated thereon blue-, green- and red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers respectively associated with non-diffusing yellow, magenta and cyan dye-forming couplers, wherein at least one green-sensitive layer contains a 2-equivalent 3-anilino-4-phenylthio-5-pyrazolone magenta coupler and a 4-(4-hydroxy-phenylazo)-5-pyrazolone colored magenta coupler. The multilayer color photographic element of the present invention presents an improved speed and contrast, without a detrimental effect on the other sensitometric properties, such as Dmin and Dmax.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2000Date of Patent: July 17, 2001Assignee: Terrania, S.p.A.Inventors: Raffaella Biavasco, Emilio Prosperi, Roberto Sardelli
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Patent number: 6261750Abstract: A silver halide color light-sensitive material contains at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one non-light-sensitive layer on a support, wherein at least one of the non-light-sensitive layers contains a silver halide emulsion having a previously fogged surface, and the non-light-sensitive layer containing the previously fogged emulsion and/or its adjacent layer contains a compound capable of releasing a photographically useful group or its precursor by a coupling reaction with the oxidized form of a developing agent, wherein the previously fogged emulsion is developed during color development to evenly form the oxidized form of a color developing agent, and the photographically useful group or its precursor is released non-imagewise by the coupling reaction.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2000Date of Patent: July 17, 2001Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshio Ishii, Takayuki Ito, Fumitaka Ueda, Hiroyuki Yoneyama
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Patent number: 6261749Abstract: Disclosed is a ultrahigh speed silver halide color photographic material for picture-taking use, which comprises a support coated with at least three light-sensitive layers comprising blue-sensitive, green-sensitive and red-sensitive silver halide emulsions respectively: with the photographic material having a characteristic speed of at least 800 and the total silver coverage of at most 7.0 g/m2, and satisfying the following relation between the total silver coverage (X) and the characteristic speed (Y); (X)/(Y)½≦0.185, thereby ensuring excellent granularity and storage stability.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 1999Date of Patent: July 17, 2001Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventor: Masahiro Asami
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Patent number: 6258518Abstract: A silver halide photosensitive material comprises a compound represented by formula (S1): wherein R1 represents a substituent group, n represents an integer from 0 to 4, R2 and R3 can be the same or different and represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, and R4 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a heterocyclic group.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 1999Date of Patent: July 10, 2001Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masato Taniguchi, Hideo Ikeda
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Patent number: 6242168Abstract: The present invention relates to a light-sensitive silver halide color multilayer photographic material which comprises a support base having coated thereon at least three red-sensitive emulsion layers having different sensitivity, at least three green-sensitive emulsion layers having different sensitivity, and at least two yellow-sensitive emulsion layers having different sensitivity, wherein (a) a core-shell silver halide emulsion having an average silver iodide content lower than 10% mol is present in at least one of the lowest sensitive red-, green- and yellow layers, (b) a yellow dye forming malonodiamide DIR coupler having in the coupling position thereof a 4,7-dihalogen-2-benzotriazolyl group is present in both the medium sensitive red- and green-sensitive layers, and (c) a yellow dye forming DIR coupler having a 1,2,4-triazolyl group attached to the coupling position, such 1,2,4-triazolyl group comprising a hydrolizable alkoxy- or aryloxy-carbonyl group attached to a benzytlthio substituent on theType: GrantFiled: May 23, 2000Date of Patent: June 5, 2001Assignee: Ferrania SpAInventors: Mauro Avidano, Raffaella Biavasco, Diego Brignone, Giuseppe Rocca, Luisa Tavella
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Patent number: 6242170Abstract: This invention provides a multicolor photographic element comprising a support bearing a cyan dye image-forming unit comprising at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith at least one cyan dye-forming coupler, a magenta dye image-forming unit comprising at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith at least one magenta dye-forming coupler, a yellow dye image-forming unit comprising at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith at least one yellow dye-forming coupler, wherein at least one of said emulsion layers comprises large tabular grains having an average equivalent circular diameter of greater than 3 &mgr;m and contains a one equivalent image dye-forming coupler and a fragmentable electron donating compound of the formula: X—Y′ or a compound which contains a moiety of the formula —X—Y′; wherein X is an electron donor moiety, Y′ is a leaving proton HType: GrantFiled: December 20, 1999Date of Patent: June 5, 2001Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Joseph P. Pepe, Jeffrey C. Hansen, James A. Friday, Annabel A. Muenter, David T. Southby
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Patent number: 6238855Abstract: A photographic element comprising a support bearing one or more silver halide emulsions at least one of which comprises at least 50% silver chloride in association with one or more image dye-forming couplers and one or more DI(A)R couplers of formulae I or II: wherein: TIME is a timing group and R1, R2, Z, n, and j are as defined in the specification, wherein the DI(A)R coupler(s) in association with an emulsion comprising at least 50% silver chloride comprise at least about 25% to about 90% of the total amount of coupler in association with that emulsion and the total amount of coupler is the sum of the number of moles of image coupler(s) and the number of moles of the DI(A)R couplers in association with that emulsion.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 1999Date of Patent: May 29, 2001Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Philip A. Allway, Christina M. Watts, Paul L. Stanley
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Patent number: 6232055Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic photosensitive material in which the photosensitive layer of the photosensitive material comprising a silver halide emulsion, a developing agent and a coupler is put together with the processing layer of a processing material so that these layers are heated to form a color image in the photosensitive material, said silver halide grains in the photosensitive layer having a silver chloride content of 50 mol% or more, wherein (1) the silver halide grains, in which 50% or more of the exterior faces of the grain is made up of a (111) plane, account for 50% or more of the total projected area of the silver halide grains of the emulsion, and the developing agent has a specific molecular structure, or (2) the tabular silver halide grains having an aspect ratio of 2 or more, which have the exterior faces of the grain made up of a (100) plane and a plane of projection of the grain in a shape of a rectangle with a length to width ratio ranging from 1:1 to 1:2, or which havType: GrantFiled: March 10, 1999Date of Patent: May 15, 2001Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsuhisa Ohzeki, Masahiro Asami, Takuya Yokokawa, Hideaki Naruse
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Patent number: 6228572Abstract: The invention provides a color photographic element comprising: a) a first light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a compound of Formula 1: wherein: M is hydrogen, an alkali metal cation or an ammonium cation, X is oxygen, sulfur or selenium, and Q represents a ballasting moiety; provided further that the ClogP for the compound of Formula I is at least 1.0 and less than 7.6; and b) a second light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, having a spectral sensitivity different from that of the first light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, containing a compound of Formula II: COUP—(TIME)j—INH II wherein: 1) COUP is a coupler parent group capable of forming a dye upon reaction with an oxidized developer; 2) TIME is a timing group and j is 0 or 1; and 3) INH is a mild silver development inhibitor fragment. The invention provides improved color reproduction.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 1999Date of Patent: May 8, 2001Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: J. R. Vargas, Louis E. Friedrich, Stephen P. Singer
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Patent number: 6225036Abstract: A multicolor photographic element comprising a support bearing a cyan dye image-forming unit comprising at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith at least one cyan dye-forming coupler, a magenta dye image-forming unit comprising at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith at least one magenta dye-forming coupler, a yellow dye image-forming unit comprising at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith at least one yellow dye-forming coupler, wherein at least one of said emulsion layers comprises tabular grains having {111} major faces containing greater than 50 mole percent bromide, and accounting for greater than 50 percent total grain projected area precipitated in a peptizer that is a water dispersible cationic starch, and contains a fragmentable electron donating sensitizer.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2000Date of Patent: May 1, 2001Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Joe E. Maskasky, Kenneth J. Reed, Victor P. Scaccia, James A. Friday
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Patent number: 6218095Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic photosensitive material in which the photosensitive layer of the photosensitive material comprising a silver halide emulsion, a developing agent and a coupler is put together with the processing layer of a processing material so that these layers are heated to form a color image in the photosensitive material, said silver halide grains in the photosensitive layer having a silver chloride content of 50 mol % or more, wherein (1) the silver halide grains, in which 50% or more of the exterior faces of the grain is made up of a (111) plane, account for 50% or more of the total projected area of the silver halide grains of the emulsion, and the developing agent has a specific molecular structure, or (2) the tabular silver halide grains having an aspect ratio of 2 or more, which have the exterior faces of the grain made up of a (100) plane and a plane of projection of the grain in a shape of a rectangle with a length to width ratio ranging from 1:1 to 1:2, or which haType: GrantFiled: March 10, 1999Date of Patent: April 17, 2001Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Inventors: Katsuhisa Ohzeki, Masahiro Asami, Takuya Yokokawa, Hideaki Naruse