And Containing Plural Layers Sensitive To The Same Spectral Region Patents (Class 430/506)
  • Patent number: 5387500
    Abstract: A photographic element including a support and at least two green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers of different sensitivity, each emulsion layer including a two-equivalent pyrazoloazole magenta dye-forming coupler having a structure according to formula I of the disclosure. The activity of the dye-forming coupler present in the layer of lower sensitivity is less than the activity of the dye-forming coupler present in the layer of higher sensitivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1995
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Hans G. Ling, Drake M. Michno
  • Patent number: 5382501
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon a red-sensitive layer, a green-sensitive layer and a blue-sensitive layer, wherein said blue-sensitive layer comprises three or more silver halide emulsion layers, wherein the difference between the average silver iodide content of said emulsion contained in the highest sensitivity layer of said blue-sensitive layers and the average silver iodide content of said emulsion contained in the lowest sensitivity layer of said blue-sensitive layers is represented by Equation 1, and the sum total of the silver halides contained in said silver halide color light-sensitive material is not more than 9.0 g/m.sup.2 in terms of metal silver;Equation 1Average silver iodide content of the highest sensitivity layer -average iodide content of the lowest sensitivity layer.ltoreq.6 mol %.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1995
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventor: Hiroshi Inoie
  • Patent number: 5382499
    Abstract: A photographic film is disclosed particularly adapted for underwater photography. The film is comprised of a film support, a blue recording layer unit capable of forming a yellow dye image, a green recording layer unit capable of forming a magenta dye image, and a red recording layer unit capable of forming a cyan dye image. At an exposure temperature of 5500.degree. K. and an optical density of 0.8 above minimum density the red recording layer unit exhibits a speed that is (T/10) log E greater than that of the green recording layer unit, where E is exposure in lux-seconds and T is the light transmission distance in meters through water required to match the speed of the red recording layer unit to the speed of the green recording layer unit, T being in the range of from 1.5 to 15 meters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1995
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Brian W. Keelan, Robert Niklewicz, Diane P. Libby, John V. Nelson
  • Patent number: 5378591
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a reversal color photographic material.The material contains three elements which are photosensitive to the three regions of the spectrum respectively. Each element contains at least two emulsions having different speeds. In at least one of the elements, the fastest emulsion is a polydisperse emulsion exhibiting a sensitization higher than the optimum, the other emulsions being monodisperse emulsions.Obtention of a material less sensitive to the processing conditions, without degradation of the other photographic properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1995
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Gerard M. Droin, Simone J. Kempen
  • Patent number: 5376515
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material has, on a support, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta coupler, at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow coupler, and at least two red-sensitive silver emulsion layers containing a cyan coupler and having different sensitivities. The highest sensitivity layer of the red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers contains a yellow coupler, and a red-sensitive emulsion layer having a lower sensitivity contains a yellow-colored cyan coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuji Kume
  • Patent number: 5372920
    Abstract: A multilayered color photographic element contains a support having coated thereon photographic silver halide emulsion layers including at least one blue-sensitive and at least three red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers, said red-sensitive layers respectively being most, mid, and least red-sensitive relative to each other, said most and mid red-sensitive layers being contiguous, and the most red-sensitive layer being a coupler starved layer, which element comprises:(a) a yellow image dye-forming coupler and substantially no development inhibitor releasing coupler in the most red-sensitive layer; and(b) at least one development inhibitor releasing coupler in the mid red-sensitive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Larry D. Edwards
  • Patent number: 5370979
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material has, on a support, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta coupler, at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow coupler, and at least two red-sensitive silver emulsion layers containing a cyan coupler and having different sensitivities. The highest sensitivity layer of the red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers contains a magenta coupler, and a red-sensitive emulsion layer having a lower sensitivity contains a magenta colored cyan coupler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuji Kume
  • Patent number: 5368994
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material comprising a hydrophilic colloidal layer structure including at least two silver halide emulsion layers provided on at least one common side of a transparent support, wherein the average content of iridium compound per unit mol of silver in the silver halide emulsion layer on the side nearer to the support is greater than that of the silver halide emulsion layer located further from the support, and, characterized by at least one of (1) when exposed to laser light having a wavelength of 600 to 850 nm, the maximum value of .gamma. on the characteristic curve of optical density versus exposure (logarithm) is not more than 3.2; or (2) the average grain size of the grains in the silver halide emulsion layer located further from the support is greater than that of the grains in the silver halide emulsion layer located nearer to the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 29, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Itsuo Fujiwara, Tadashi Ito, Naoki Arai
  • Patent number: 5360704
    Abstract: A camera-sensitive color photographic recording material which comprises 2 or 3 green-sensitive layers, 2 or 3 red-sensitive layers and 2 or 3 blue-sensitive layers, the blue-sensitive layers being arranged further from the support than the green-sensitive and red-sensitive layers, the layer of low blue-sensitivity or the layer of low blue sensitivity and the layer of medium blue sensitivity being made up of silver halide emulsions containing at least 50 mol-% AgCl and the total silver coating of the material being adjusted as a function of sensitivity to a value which satisfies the following relation:Ag coating=(0.27.multidot.S)-X,the silver coating being determined in g/m.sup.2, X having a value of 1.9 to 3.8 and S being the sensitivity in DIN, is distinguished by improved sharpness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1994
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Detlef Brennecke
  • Patent number: 5360703
    Abstract: Multicolor photographic elements are disclosed containing at least three dye image forming layer units. An enhancement of the speed-granularity relationship of a dye image is obtained when the corresponding dye image forming layer unit contains at least three superimposed silver bromoiodide emulsion layers. The emulsion layer nearest the support containing an average iodide content of up to 60 percent the iodide content of the next overlying of the emulsion layers. The three emulsion layers each differ in speed from the next adjacent of the emulsion layers, with the fastest of the emulsion layers being located nearest the source of exposing radiation and being at least one half stop faster than the next adjacent layer and the slowest of the emulsion layers being located farthest from the source of exposing radiation and being at least one half stop slower than the next adjacent layer. The three emulsions layers are each tabular grain emulsion layers with tabularities of greater than 25.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Elizabeth P. Chang, James A. Friday
  • Patent number: 5322766
    Abstract: A color negative photographic recording material is described in which low emulsion coverage tabular grain silver halide emulsion imaging units are employed. The silver halide emulsion in at least one of the units comprises grains having a tabularity of between about 50 and 25,000. The imaging unit thickness is less than about 4.0 .mu.m, using a total of no more than 2.0 parts by weight of silver per part of coupler. The imaging unit yields a density of at least 2.0 when exposed and processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1993
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Allan F. Sowinski, George F. Wu, Thomas B. Brust, James T. Kofron, Gary L. House
  • Patent number: 5314792
    Abstract: A photographic element and process useful therewith comprises at least two light sensitive silver halide layers sensitized to green light and having differing degrees of light sensitivity, comprising in association with a higher sensitivity layer a yellow dye forming DIR coupler which releases a development inhibitor containing a weak inhibitor fragment, and further comprising in association with the lower sensitivity layer a cyan dye forming DIR coupler with a timing group containing a strong inhibitor fragment which releases a precursor of the development inhibitor fragment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: James P. Merrill
  • Patent number: 5314793
    Abstract: Multicolor photographic elements are disclosed containing at least three dye image forming layer units. An enhancement of the speed-granularity relationship of a dye image is obtained when the corresponding dye image forming layer unit contains at least three superimposed emulsion layers. The two emulsion layers farther from the support contain silver bromoiodide emulsions, with the emulsion layer nearest the support containing a silver bromide or bromoiodide emulsion of up to 60 percent the iodide as a proportion of silver of the next overlying of the emulsion layers. The three emulsion layers each differ in speed from the next adjacent of the emulsion layers, with the fastest of the emulsion layers being located nearest the source of exposing radiation and being at least one half stop faster than the next adjacent layer and the slowest of the emulsion layers being located farthest from the source of exposing radiation and being at least one stop slower than the next adjacent layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Elizabeth P. Chang, James A. Friday
  • Patent number: 5314794
    Abstract: A process of producing a viewable photographic image is disclosed wherein an imagewise exposed photographic element containing at least two silver halide emulsion layers capable of recording within the same region of the spectrum and having differing threshold sensitivities produces during photographic processing spectrally distinguishable images. Separate image records are obtained from the emulsion layers, and the image record corresponding to the photographically superior image is preferentially employed in producing a viewable image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: James E. Sutton
  • Patent number: 5308747
    Abstract: A photographic recording material comprising a support bearing at least one photographic layer comprising a sensitized high aspect ratio tabular grain silver halide emulsion and at least one spatially fixed dye layer spatially positioned between said silver halide layer and the upper surface of said recording material, said dye layer comprises a spatially fixed dye that absorbs light in the region of the spectrum to which the silver halide is sensitized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Richard P. Szajewski, James P. Merrill, Allan F. Sowinski
  • Patent number: 5306605
    Abstract: A photographic recording material comprising a carrier and at least one photosensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a non-photosensitive layer and optional conventional intermediate and protective layers, characterised in that the photographic recording material (1) contains at least one silver halide emulsion layer having a silver iodide content .gtoreq.3 mol % and an average grain diameter .ltoreq.0.4 .mu.m, and (2), at least in one layer, contains a compound having the formula I ##STR1## in which R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 denote hydrogen, an optionally substituted hydrocarbon radical, an optionally substituted alkylthio, alkyloxy or arylthio radical, an optionally substituted amino group, OH or halogen or R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 together denote the radical for completing a carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring,R.sub.4, R.sub.5 denote hydrogen, an optionally substituted alkyl or aryl radical, or an optionally substituted heterocyclic radical,R.sub.6, R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1994
    Assignee: AGFA-Gevaert AG
    Inventors: Heinrich Odenwalder, Lothar Rosenhahn, Thomas Stetzer
  • Patent number: 5302499
    Abstract: A color photographic recording material is disclosed which contains tabular silver halide emulsion grains of specified dimensions in at least two color records to enable improved speed and sharpness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: James P. Merrill, Lois A. Buitano, Allan F. Sowinski, Richard P. Szajewski
  • Patent number: 5284740
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is described comprising a support having provided thereon one or more red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers, one or more green sensitive silver halide emulsion layers and one or more blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers wherein the average silver iodide content of silver halide in all the silver halide emulsion layers is not less than 10 mol% and the silver halide color photographic material contains a compound represented by the following general formula (I):Q--SM.sup.1 (I)wherein Q represents a heterocyclic group having at least one group selected from --SO.sub.3 M.sup.2, --COOM.sup.2, --OH and --NR.sup.1 R.sup.2 directly or indirectly connected thereto; M.sup.1 and M.sup.2 each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal, a quaternary ammonium or a quaternary phosphonium; and R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 each represents a hydrogen atom or a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 8, 1994
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keiji Mihayashi, Yoshihiro Fujita, Masatoshi Goto
  • Patent number: 5283164
    Abstract: A color photographic silver halide negative working duplicating element comprising a support bearing, in order from the support, at least one red-sensitive photographic silver halide emulsion layer package comprising at least one cyan image-dye forming coupler that is capable upon exposure and processing of forming a cyan image dye that absorbs in the range of the original image; at least one green-sensitive photographic silver halide emulsion layer package comprising at least one magenta image-dye forming coupler that is capable, upon exposure and processing, of forming a magenta image dye that absorbs in the range of the original image; and at least one blue-sensitive photographic silver halide emulsion layer package comprising at least one yellow image-dye forming coupler that is capable upon exposure and processing of forming a yellow image dye that absorbs in the range of the original image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 1, 1994
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: David E. Fenton, John F. Sawyer, Donald H. Hunger
  • Patent number: 5273870
    Abstract: Reduced silver halide coverage combined with minimal color granularity and high inter-image effects are obtained with a color photographic negative recording material which, for at least one of the spectral regions blue, green, red, contains a laminate of several component layers containing silver halide and color couplers and consisting of at least one middle component layer B and upper and lower component layers A, A', A", A'", . . . , the middle component layer B having a sensitivity higher by at least 3 DIN than each of the component layers A, A', A", A'", . . . , and in which the component layer B contains a DIR compound which is capable of releasing an inhibitor having a diffusibility of not less than 0.4.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1993
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert AG
    Inventors: Reinhart Matejec, Gunter Helling
  • Patent number: 5272049
    Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material having at least two green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers having different sensitivities on a support. The layer having the lowest sensitivity of the green-sensitive layers contains at least one type of coupler represented by Formula (M), and the layer having the highest sensitivity of the green-sensitive layers contains at least on type of coupler represented by Formula (N), Formula (I) or Formula (II), ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, Z represents a nonmetallic atom group required to form a 5-membered azole ring containing two to four nitrogen atoms, said azole ring being able to have a substituent including a condensed ring, and X represents a group except for a hydrogen atom, which can split off during a coupling reaction with an oxidized form of a developing agent. Formula (N) represents a compound represented by Formula (M) in which the split-off group X is replaced by a hydrogen atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kei Sakanoue, Mamoru Sakurazawa, Tadahisa Sato
  • Patent number: 5270152
    Abstract: A color photographic element which contains a color correction layer above at least one red sensitive layer of the element results in an element having excellent color reproduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1991
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1993
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Jeffrey L. Hall
  • Patent number: 5268262
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material containing a support having provided thereon blue-sensitive, green-sensitive, and red-sensitive layers, in which at least the blue-sensitive layer is composed of at least two layers including a more sensitive layer and a less sensitive layer. The most sensitive layer of the blue-sensitive layer is a blue-sensitive layer containing an emulsion of substantially monodispersed grains, and at least one layer other than the most sensitive layer contains an emulsion containing tabular silver halide grains of about 5:1 or more in average aspect ratio. The material has superior sharpness and graininess, and is useful for color photography.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Shibahara, Shinpei Ikenoue
  • Patent number: 5266451
    Abstract: A color photographic recording material with a reflective support which contains a spectrally sensitized silver halide emulsion containing at least one sensitizer for the spectral region B in a layer free from color coupler adjacent at least one dye-producing silver halide emulsion layer sensitized for the spectral region A, the sensitivity of the spectrally sensitized silver halide emulsion of the layer free from color coupler being lower by 0.6 to 2.5 log H units than the sensitivity of the sensitized silver halide emulsion of the dye-producing silver halide emulsion layer, is distinguished by an extended gradation range in the region of the maximum densities and, hence, by distinctly improved fine detail resolution at high densities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1993
    Assignee: Agfa Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Arno Schmuck, Manfred Peters, Helmut Kampfer, Wolfgang Schmidt
  • Patent number: 5262288
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic photosensitive material comprises a support, having thereon at least one silver halide emulsion layer, wherein a coupler represented by formula (I) shown below is included in at least one layer of the photosensitive material, and a coupler represented by formula (M) shown below is included in at least one layer of the photosensitive material: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents an aryl group having substituents the sum of whose Hammett's rule substituent .sigma. constants is at least 0.2, and R.sub.2 represents an aryl group having substituents the sum of whose Hammett's rule substituent .sigma. constants is at least 0.75; ##STR2## wherein R.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kei Sakanoue, Yuki Mizukawa
  • Patent number: 5262287
    Abstract: A silver halide color reversal photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one cyan coupler-containing red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, at least one magenta coupler-containing green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and at least one yellow coupler-containing blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the total light-sensitive silver halide grains in the photographic material have an average silver iodide content of 5.5 mol % or less, and said at least one of light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers and a substantially light-insensitive hydrophilic colloidal layer adjacent thereto comprises means for producing an interimage effect, said interimage effect satisfying at least one of relationships (a) and (b):(a)0.20.ltoreq..DELTA.logE(R.sub.0.5).ltoreq.0.40,0.ltoreq..DELTA.logE(R.sub.1.5).ltoreq.0.07,and0.18.ltoreq..DELTA.logE(R.sub.0.5)-.DELTA.logE(R.sub.1.5).ltoreq.0.35(b)0.25.ltoreq..DELTA.logE(G.sub.0.5).ltoreq.0.45,0.ltoreq..DELTA.logE(G.sub.1.5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoyasu Deguchi, Junichi Tamano
  • Patent number: 5258269
    Abstract: A light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material is disclosed. The color photographic material is stored in roll, and has a value of ##EQU1## being 20 to 60 .mu.m, wherein at least one silver halide emulsion layer contains a silver halide emulsion containing silver chrolide in a proportion of not less than 10 mol %. The photographic material is excellent in resistant to pressure desensitizing and preventive from producing scratching trouble. A photographic unit containing the photographic material is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1993
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Toshihiko Yagi, Yoshiro Ito, Katsuhiko Heki
  • Patent number: 5258273
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed. The light-sensitive material comprises a support, having thereon a red sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the red-sensitive comprises a low-speed red-sensitive silver halide emulsion sublayer, a medium-seed red-sensitive silver halide emulsion sublayer and a high-speed red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer provided in this order from the support, and sensitivities S.sub.600, S.sub.620, S.sub.640, S.sub.660 and S.sub.680 of the medium speed red-sensitive emulsion sublayer which are each determined as reciprocal of the exposure amount of light of wavelength of 600 nm, 620 nm, 640 nm, 660 nm and 680 nm necessary for forming an image having a density of fog+0.1 in the medium speed red-sensitive emulsion sublayer, respectively, satisfy the following relation;0.5S.sub.640 <S.sub.600 < 0.9S.sub.640,0.7S.sub.640 <S.sub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1993
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Atsuo Ezaki, Katsutoyo Suzuki, Hiroshi Ikeda
  • Patent number: 5244776
    Abstract: A method of forming a color image in a silver halide color photosensitive material comprisingexposing the photosensitive material in a scanning exposure system for a time period shorter than about 10.sup.-4 second per picture element, and thereaftersubjecting the exposed material to development processing for a total processing time of about 90 seconds or less, inclusive of drying time,the photosensitive material comprising a support having thereon at least three silver halide emulsion layers differing in color sensitivity, at least two of which have a spectral sensitivity maximum in the wavelength region of about 670 nm or longer, wherein at least one of the silver halide emulsion layers comprises (a) at least one coupler capable of developing color upon coupling reaction with the oxidized form of an aromatic amine compound and (b) at least one compound of general formula (I) or (II): ##STR1## wherein the variables are as defined in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Kawai
  • Patent number: 5236817
    Abstract: A multicolor photographic element capable of forming a viewable reversal dye image is disclosed comprising a support and, coated on the support, a blue recording yellow dye image forming layer unit, a green recording magenta dye image forming layer unit, and a red recording cyan dye image forming layer unit, each of the dye image forming layer units containing at least one silver halide emulsion layer comprised of a vehicle and silver halide grains having (1) a halide content of from 0 to 5 mole percent chloride, from 0.1 to 20 mole percent iodide, and from 80 to 99.9 mole percent bromide, based on total silver. At least one of the silver halide emulsion layers in one of the layer units positioned to receive exposing radiation prior to at least one of the green or red recording layer units is a tabular grain emulsion layer in which a polyalkylene oxide block copolymer is present selected to allow the preparation of tabular grains having a mean thickness of less than 0.3 .mu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1993
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Sang H. Kim, Mamie Kam-Ng, Allen K. Tsaur, Jacob I. Cohen, Richard A. Demauriac, George H. Hawks, III, John D. Baloga
  • Patent number: 5212054
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material of which the color reproducibility and printing suitability are kept improved against the variation of photographing conditions, such as a change in light source, is disclosed. The photographic material comprises a support and provided thereon a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein at least one of said emulsion layers is of three-layer structure comprising a low-speed elemental emulsion layer, a medium-speed elemental emulsion layer and a high speed emulsion layer arranged in this sequence from the side facing the support, and a maximum color density of said medium-speed emulsion layer is not more than 0.35.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1993
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Koji Tashiro, Hideaki Haraga, Atsuo Ezaki, Hiroshi Ideda, Katsutoyo Suzuki, Satoru Shimba, Miki Kon, Kenji Michiue, Yasushi Irie, Toshihiko Yagi, Syoji Matsuzaka, Keisuke Tobita
  • Patent number: 5198328
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least three photosensitive layers containing a silver chloride emulsion or a silver chlorobromide emulsion having an average silver chloride content of at least 96 mol % and containing substantially no silver iodide, said at least three photosensitive layers comprising a cyan coupler-containing layer, a magenta coupler-containing layer and a yellow coupler-containing layer, wherein said at least three photosensitive layers each has different spectral sensitivity peak in the photosensitive wavelength regions of 650 to 690 nm, 720 to 790 nm and 770 to 850 nm, respectively, and the total coating weight of silver halide is not more than 0.78 g/m.sup.2 in terms of silver, and the above-disclosed material wherein the support is a reflective support comprising a base paper impregnated with a synthetic polymer through the surface of the base paper, and a white pigment-containing water-resistant resin layer coated on the base paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Shiba, Tadashi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 5192649
    Abstract: A color diffusion transfer light-sensitive material comprising a support having thereon light-sensitive silver halide emulsions and an electron donor in combination with reducible dye providing compounds each of which releases a diffusible dye when reduced and further a silver halide emulsion having substantially no light sensitivity in addition to the light-sensitive silver halide emulsions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsumi Hirano, Munehisa Fujita, Katsuhisa Ohzeki
  • Patent number: 5190851
    Abstract: A color photographic silver halide negative working duplicating element comprising a support having thereon at least one red-sensitive photographic silver halide emulsion layer comprising at least one cyan image-dye forming coupler; at least one green-sensitive photographic silver halide emulsion layer comprising at least one magenta image-dye forming coupler; and, at least one blue-sensitive photographic silver halide emulsion layer comprising at least one yellow image-dye forming coupler, provides improved images when (a) at least one of the layers comprises a unit of at least two layers including a first layer and a second layer, the first layer having a higher photosensitivity than the second layers and being farther from the support than the second layers; (b) the first layers contain an image-dye forming coupler in an amount insufficient to react with all the oxidized developer formed during development after maximum exposure; (c) the image-dye forming couplers of the first layers being in a dispersion
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1993
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Krishnan Chari, John T. Keech, John F. Sawyer, Jeffrey W. Schmoeger, Paul L. Zengerle
  • Patent number: 5190850
    Abstract: A silver halide photographic material having on a support a first light-sensitive layer containing a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion and a second light-sensitive layer containing a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion, wherein the first light-sensitive layer and/or a hydrophilic colloid layer contains a hydrazine compound, the second light-sensitive layer contains a redox compound capable of releasing a development inhibitor by oxidation, and the sensitivity of the first light-sensitive layer is higher by 0.2 to 1.0 than that of the second light-sensitive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 2, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Minoru Sakai, Kazunobu Katoh
  • Patent number: 5185236
    Abstract: A full color recording material which has, on a support, at least three silver halide photosensitive emulsion layers which have different color sensitivities and which contain a yellow coupler, magenta coupler and cyan coupler, respectively, and in which at least two of these layers are selectively spectrally sensitized to match semiconductor laser light beams of wavelengths greater than 670 nm, wherein said at least three silver halide photosensitive layers which have different color sensitivities each contains silver chlorobromide grains with a layer average silver chloride content of at least 96 mol %, and said silver chlorobromide grains have a silver bromide local phase of which the silver bromide content is higher than that of the surroundings and a method for forming color images wherein the recording material is imagewise exposed while being transported at a feed rate which matches the scanning rate with semiconductor light beams, and substantially continuously to the exposing, the material is subject
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Shiba, Kiyoshi Kawai, Masaki Okazaki, Yoshiharu Okino
  • Patent number: 5185237
    Abstract: A novel silver halide color photographic material is provided which comprises a support having coated thereon at least three silver halide emulsion layers having maximum spectral sensitivities in at least three sensitive wavelength ranges of 400 nm to 500 nm, 500 nm to 570 nm and 650 nm to 730 nm and is sensitive to said three sensitive wavelength ranges to form yellow, magenta and cyan dye images, respectively, characterized in that said silver halide color photographic material has additionally at least one function to provide a maximum spectral sensitivity in wavelength range other than said three sensitive wavelength ranges and to form any of yellow, magenta or cyan dye image by an exposure to the light of said other wavelength range. A color image formation method is also disclosed which comprises exposing said silver halide color photographic material to light in a print exposure process in combination with a scanning exposure process, and then developing said silver halide color photographic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1993
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Kawai
  • Patent number: 5162195
    Abstract: A method for processing a silver halide color photosensitive material is disclosed: (i) subjecting a full-color photographic material to scanning exposure to three lights each having different wavelength; (ii) processing said exposed full-color photographic material with a color developer containing at least one aromatic primary amine color developing agent and containing chloride ion in amount of from 3.5.times.10.sup.-2 to 1.5.times.10.sup.-1 mole/liter and bromide ion in an amount from 3.5.times.10.sup.-2 to 1.5.times.10.sup.-1 mole/liter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1992
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshio Inagaki
  • Patent number: 5154995
    Abstract: A novel silver halide color photographic material is provided which comprises a support having coated thereon at least three silver halide emulsion layers having maximum spectral sensitivities in at least three sensitive wavelength ranges of 400 nm to 500 nm, 500 nm to 570 nm and 650 nm to 730 nm and is sensitive to said three sensitive wavelength ranges to form yellow, magenta and cyan dye images, respectively, characterized in that said silver halide color photographic material has additionally at least one function to provide a maximum spectral sensitvity in wavelength range other than said three sensitive wavelength ranges and to form any of yellow, magenta or cyan dye image by an exposure to the light of said other range. A color image formation method is also disclosed which comprises exposing said silver halide color photographic material to light in a print exposure process in combination with a scanning exposure process, and then developing said silver halide color photographic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1992
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Kiyoshi Kawai
  • Patent number: 5114837
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material is disclosed comprising a support having thereon 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 sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan coupler, wherein the sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containinig a cyan coupler comprises a silver chlorobromide or silver chlorobromoiodide emulsion having a silver chloride content of at least 80 mol % and a silver iodide content of no greater than 1 mol % and said sensitive silver halide emulsion is spectrally sensitized with a red-sensitive sensitizing dye and at least one or both of a blue-sensitive sensitizing dye and a green-sensitive sensitizing dye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1992
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tadashi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 5108882
    Abstract: A photographic element is described comprising a support having thereon(a) a silver halide emulsion layer where the silver halide is sensitized with a dye having the formula: ##STR1## Z.sub.1 and Z.sub.2 each independently represents the atoms necessary to complete a substituted or unsubstituted 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic nucleus,R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each independently represents substituted or unsubstituted alkyl or substituted or unsubstituted aryl, andR.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, and R.sub.6 each independently represents hydrogen, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted aryl,X represents a counterion, and(b) at least one other red- or infrared-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having a maximum sensitivity at a wavelength different from that of the (a) layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1992
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Richard L. Parton, Annabel A. Muenter, Anthony Adin
  • Patent number: 5084374
    Abstract: There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material having (A) a red-sensitive, (B) a green-sensitive, and (C) a blue sensitive silver halide emulsion layers, wherein the silver halide emulsion of each layer is a high-silver-chloride emulsion, and the silver halide emulsions of the red-sensitive and blue-sensitive layers is spectrally sensitized in the blue light region within a range satisfying specific relationships. Further two or more silver halide emulsions are mixed so that the gammas of the (A) red-sensitive and the (B) green-sensitive layers in the photosensitive region of the blue-sensitive layer may be in a limited range. The disclosure as described provides a silver halide color photographic material which can form a color image giving a stereoscopic feeling that can reproduce bright primary colors less in turbidity over the range from the low-density part to the high-density part, and which can produce fully the high-density region of primary colors with subtle shades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1992
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kokichi Waki, Masahiro Asami
  • Patent number: 5061618
    Abstract: A photographic element is described comprising a support having thereon a silver halide emulsion layer where the silver halide is sensitized with a dye having the formula: ##STR1## wherein where Z.sub.1, Z.sub.2, Z.sub.3, R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, and X are as defined herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1991
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Richard L. Parton, Annabel A. Muenter, David A. Stegman
  • Patent number: 5057405
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least three photosensitive layers containing a silver chloride emulsion or a silver chlorobromide emulsion having an average silver chloride content of at least 96 mol % and containing substantially no silver iodide, said at least three photosensitive layers comprising a cyan coupler-containing layer, a magenta coupler-containing layer and a yellow coupler-containing layer, wherein said at least three photosensitive layers each has different spectral sensitivity peak in the photosensitive wavelength regions of 650 to 690 nm, 720 nm and 770 to 850 nm, respectively, and the total coating weight of silver halide is not more than 0.78 g/m.sup.2 in terms of silver, and the above-disclosed material wherein the support is a reflective support comprising a base paper impregnated with a synthetic polymer through the surface of the base paper, and a white pigment-containing water-resistant resin layer coated on the base paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keisuke Shiba, Tadashi Ogawa
  • Patent number: 5053324
    Abstract: A silver halide color light-sensitive material comprising, on a support, at least one blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow dye-forming color coupler, at least one green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta dye-forming color coupler and at least one red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan dye-forming color coupler, in which the weight-averaged wavelength .lambda.G of spectral sensitivity distribution of the green-sensitive layer is in the range of from 520 nm to 580 nm, the weight averaged wavelength .lambda..sub.-R of spectral sensitivity distribution of the interlayer effect received by the red-sensitive layer in the range of from 500 nm to 600 nm is in the range of from 500 nm to 560 nm and the difference, .lambda..sub.G -.lambda..sub.-R is 5 nm or more, the material being characterized in that spectral sensitivity distribution S.sub.-R (.lambda.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Noboru Sasaki
  • Patent number: 5051345
    Abstract: A silver halide reversal photographic light-sensitive material is disclosed, which is improved in color reproducibility and gradation. The photographic material comprises a support having thereon a photographic component layers including at least two silver halide layers and a DIR layer. At least one of the emulsion layers comprises at least two silver halide emulsion layers which are substantially the same in color-sensitivity and different from each other in speed. The DIR layer contains a DIR compound and a silver halide emulsion and does not substantially contribute for any image formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1990
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1991
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Hideaki Haraga, Masaru Iwagaki, Atsuo Ezaki
  • Patent number: 5034310
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic photosensitive material is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1991
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ikeda, Yoshitaka Yamada, Toshihiko Yagi
  • Patent number: 5032496
    Abstract: A light-sensitive color photographic material with improved color reproducibility which comprises on a support a plurality of light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers including a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and at least one silver halide emulsion layer having reverse photo-response to that of the red-, green-, and blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers, being capable of forming a reverse dye image having substantially the same hue as that is to be formed in the green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and having maximun sensitivity wavelength (.lambda.-G) of the spectral sensitivity distribution in the region of from 400nm to 500nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1991
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Hattori, Shin-ichi Daiba
  • Patent number: H1112
    Abstract: A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material improved in graininess, comprising a support having thereon a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein at least one of the red-sensitive emulsion layer and the green-sensitive emulsion layer has the three-layered structure, in which the low speed silver halide emulsion layer, medium speed silver halide emulsion layer and high speed silver halide emulsion layer are coated on the support in this order; and the coating amount of silver in the layer increases in the order of the medium speed layer, low speed layer and high speed layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 3, 1992
    Assignee: Konica Corporation
    Inventors: Atsuo Ezaki, Keisuke Tobita, Hiroshi Ikeda, Hideaki Haraga
  • Patent number: H1167
    Abstract: A process for manufacturing a silver halide color photographic material is disclosed. The photographic material comprises a blue light-sensitive layer-unit, a green light-sensitive layer-unit and a red light-sensitive layer-unit in which at least one of the light-sensitive layer-units comprises two or three silver halide emulsion layers being substantially the same in spectral sensitivity and different in speed from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1993
    Assignee: Konica Corp.
    Inventors: Kuniaki Uezawa, Masaru Iwagaki, Kiichi Sato, Hideo Akamatsu, Minoru Ishikawa