Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation

Kazunori Hasebe

Masahiro Asami

Keisuke Shiba

Toshihiro Nishikawa

Naoto Ohshima

Yasuhiro Hayashi

Shinzo Kishimoto

Naoyasu Deguchi

Sadanobu Shuto

Munehisa Fujita

Hiroyuki Yamagami

Koji Takahashi

Masakazu Morigaki

Osamu Takahashi

Seiji Ichijima

Hiroyuki Mifune

Koki Nakamura

Akira Abe

Yosuke Ueno

Masakazu Yoneyama

Kei Sakanoue

Shunji Takada

Shinji Ueda

Kiyoshi Nakazyo

Isao Shimamura

Junya Nakajima

Takashi Moue

Kokichi Waki

Osami Tanabe

Tsutomu Hamaoka

Tomonori Yamashita

Kensuke Goda

Yosuke Nakajima

Shigeaki Otani

Tatsuo Kuroiwa

Yasuhito Momoki

Yoshisato Minagawa

Kentaro Osazaki

To provide, with an inexpensive construction, a lens module which does not require an individual adjustment of positions during mass production and which enables a degree of freedom of arrangement in a set to be improved. The lens module includes: a lens; a lens tube which has a central axis that is parallel to an optical axis of the lens and which is configured to hold the lens inside; a casing configured to house the lens tube inside; a first coil which is provided so as to circle around an outer circumferential surface of the lens tube; a magnet which is provided on an inner circumferential surface of the casing so as to oppose the first coil; and a second coil which is provided so as to circle around the inner circumferential surface of the casing.

Lens module, camera module, electronic device, and lens drive method

A solid-state image pick-up device of the present disclosure includes a pixel array unit obtained by disposing a plurality of unit pixels, each of which includes a photoelectric conversion unit, in a matrix form, an amplifier unit that adjusts a level of a pixel signal output from a unit pixel through a vertical signal line provided to correspond to column arrangement of the pixel array unit, a sample and hold unit that samples and holds a pixel signal passing through the amplifier unit, and an analog-digital conversion unit that converts the pixel signal output from the sample and hold unit into a digital signal. Further, the sample and hold unit includes at least three capacitors that hold pixel signals and performs fetching of a pixel signal to one capacitor and outputting of an image signal fetched to another capacitor in advance to the analog-digital conversion unit in parallel.

Solid-state image pick-up device and electronic device

There is disclosed a silver halide color photographic material and a method for forming a color photographic image by processing said color photographic material with a color developer substantially free from sulfite. Said color photographic material comprises the uppermost non-photosensitive colloid layer of photographic constitutional layers containing a dispersion obtained by emulsifying and dispersing a solution containing at least one ultraviolet-absorbing agent represented by the following formula (I) or (II) and at least one water-insoluble polymer compound, and a gelatin having an isoelectric point of 6.0 or over: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, and R.sub.3 each represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a nitro group, a hydroxyl group, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryl group, an aryloxy group, or an acylamino group; R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 each represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, or an acyl group; X represents --CO-- or --COO--, which groups may be substituted; and l, m, and n are each an integer of 1 to 4.

Silver halide color photographic material and method for forming a color

A silver halide color photographic material comprises at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a reflex support silver halide grains containing at least 90 mol % silver chloride and having a silver bromide-rich region in the vicinity of at least one grain corner, but having an average silver bromide content of 15 mol % or less at the grain surface, (ii) at least one yellow coupler represented by the following general formula (I); and (iii) at least one compound represented by the following general formula (II): ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents an aryl group or a tertiary alkyl group; R.sub.2 represents a fluorine atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, a dialkylamino group, an alkylthio group, or an arylthio group; R.sub.3 represents a group which can replace a hydrogen atom of a benzene ring; X represents a hydrogen atom or a group capable of being removed by a coupling reaction with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent; and l represents an integer from 0 to 4, and when l is 2 or more, the R.sub.3 groups may be the same or different, ##STR2## wherein Q represents a group of atoms necessary to complete a 5- or 6-membered hetero ring which may be fused together with a benzene ring; and M represents a hydrogen atom or a cation.

Silver halide color photographic material containing a yellow coupler

Disclosed is a color photographic material having, on a reflective support coated with waterproof resin layers, at least three different color-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers containing any of cyan, magenta and yellow couplers, in which the number of said waterproof resin layers under said photographic constitutive layers is at least three, at least one of said waterproof resin layers contains from 15% by weight to 45% by weight of a white pigment, the waterproof resin layer nearest to the substrate of the support and that nearest to the photographic constitutive layers donor contain a white pigment or contain it in an amount of 20% by weight or less, the thickness of the waterproof resin layer nearest to the photographic constitutive layers is 5 .mu.m or less, and at least one emulsion layer contains high silver chloride emulsion grains having a silver chloride content of 95 mol % or more and contains a mercaptohetercyclic compound. The photographic material can be processed rapidly to form a color image having high sharpness while having high whiteness in the background area. The material has high folding resistance, and the density of the image at the folded part is not lowered. Even when the material is cut with a dull cutter, the edges of the resulting pieces are not rough. The edges of the pieces are not colored by development.

Silver halide color photographic material

Disclosed is a method for processing color photographic materials having a layer structure in which a cyan color-forming layer is disposed on the upper side of a pyrazoloazole type magenta coupler-containing magenta color-forming layer. A layer which does not contain any hydroquinones but contains a ultraviolet absorbent is provided above the cyan coupler-containing silver halide emulsion layer having a high chloride content, while below the cyan coupler-containing emulsion layer is provided another layer containing hydroquinones but not containing any ultraviolet absorbent. These materials are processed rapidly with a color developer under a reduced replenishment condition, wherein the amount of a color developer replenished is controlled to below 120 ml/m.sup.2, to provide color images fast to light and free from bluish unevenness in the edge part thereof.

Method of forming silver halide color photographic images

A silver halide photographic material having at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer coated on a support, wherein the silver halide emulsion layer contains silver chlorobromide grains comprising silver chlorobromide containing 90 mol % or more of silver chloride, having at least one region in which the silver bromide content is high at the vicinity of the corner of the grains, and with not more than 15 mol % of average silver bromide content at the surface of the grains. A method producing the silver halide photographic materials is also disclosed.

Silver halide photographic materials and method producing thereof

A silver halide color photographic material comprising a reflective support having thereon a yellow dye image forming silver halide emulsion layer, a magenta dye image forming silver halide emulsion layer and a cyan dye image forming silver halide emulsion layer, wherein said yellow dye image forming layer, magenta dye image forming layer and cyan dye image forming layer exhibit a maximum spectral sensitivity in the range of 400 to 490 nm, 530 to 570 nm and 660 to 720 nm, respectively, said silver halide emulsion of said cyan dye image forming layer comprises a silver chloride, silver bromochloride or silver bromochloroiodide emulsion having a silver chloride content of 90 mol % or more with a maximum spectral sensitivity given by J-band absorption of a compound represented by the general formula (I), ##STR1## wherein the variables are described in the specification.

A silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having on one side thereof at least one silver halide emulsion layer corresponding to each of the colors cyan, magenta, and yellow in which each of the colors cyan, magenta and yellow, respectively, are formed, wherein the layer which forms a magenta color is a green sensitive layer comprising (A) at least one coupler represented by formula (I) or formula (II) below ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R'.sub.2 and X are as defined in the above specification and (B) silver halide grains which have been spectrally sensitized in such a way that they have a peak sensitivity between 540 nm and 555 nm by at least one spectrally sensitizing dye represented by the formulae (A), (B) and (C) below ##STR2## wherein W.sub.1, W.sub.2, V.sub.1, V.sub.2, V.sub.3, V.sub.4, V.sub.5, V.sub.6, R.sub.21, R.sub.22, R.sub.23, R.sub.24, R.sub.25, R.sub.26, R.sub.27, R.sub.28, R.sub.29, Y, X.sub.1, X.sub.2, X.sub.3 and the subscripts, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s and t are defined as in the above specification, with the proviso that at least one of R.sub.21 and R.sub.22 ; at least one of R.sub.23, R.sub.24 and R.sub.25 ; or at least one of R.sub.26, R.sub.27, R.sub.28 and R.sub.29 represents an alkyl group or an aralkyl group which contains a sulfo group or a salt thereof a carboxyl group or a salt thereof, or a hydroxyl group provided that the speed at the spectral sensitivity peak wavelength of the green sensitive layer is twice or more of the speed at 500 nm.

Silver halide color photographic materials containing combinations of

A silver halide color photographic material and an image forming process using the same are disclosed. Said silver halide color photographic material comprises a reflecting support and provided thereon three light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers each having a different light sensitivity to a different wavelength region, including a light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a yellow dye-forming coupler, a light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a magenta dye-forming coupler, and a light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing a cyan dye-forming coupler. The silver halide color photographic material satisfies the following conditions.

Silver halide color photographic material and color photographic

A silver halide color photographic material comprises at least one silver halide emulsion layer containing a substantially iodide free silver chlorobromide or silver chloride grain of which the silver chloride content is at least 90 mol. % and a color coupler. The color coupler is at least one compound represented by formula (I) or (II). The coupler is dispersed in the emulsion layer, as a dispersion of a fine lipophilic particle obtained by emulsification and dispersion of a solution obtained by dissolution of the coupler together with at least one homopolymer or copolymer which is insoluble in water and soluble in an organic solvent and a high boiling point organic solvent: ##STR1## R.sub.1, R.sub.4, and R.sub.5 represent aliphatic, aromatic or heterocyclic groups; R.sub.3 and R.sub.6 each represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an aliphatic group, an aromatic group or an acylamino group, or R.sub.6 represents a group of non-metal atoms required to form, together with R.sub.5, a five or six membered nitrogen containing ring; R.sub.2 represents an aliphatic group; Y.sub.1 and Y.sub.2 each represents a hydrogen atom or a group which can be eliminated during a coupling reaction with the oxidized form of a developing agent. l represents the integer 0 or 1. Polymeric couplers consisting of dimers or greater units can be formed via one group from among R.sub.2, R.sub.3, Y.sub.1 or one group among R.sub.5, R.sub.6, and Y.sub.2.

Silver halide color photographic material containing a phenol cyan

A silver halide color photographic material comprising a reflective support comprising a support base material coated with a waterproof resin layer, and at least one silver halide emulsion layer thereon, wherein at least one silver halide emulsion layer thereon comprises silver halide grains containing at least 90 mol % silver chloride, having a silver bromide-rich region near at least one apex of the silver halide grain, and having a mean bromide content at the surface of the grain of not more than 15 mol %, wherein the waterproof resin layer having the silver halide emulsion layer thereon contains titanium oxide in an amount of 14% or more by weight; and further the optical reflection density of the photographic material at 680 nm is not lower than 0.70.

Silver halide color photographic materials

A method for forming an image, which comprises developing a silver halide color photographic material with a color developer containing at least one aromatic primary amine color developing agent, wherein said silver halide color photographic material comprises a silver chloride or silver chlorobromide emulsion having an average silver bromide content of not more than 10 mol % and containing substantially no iodide, with a mean grain size of an emulsion contained in the blue-sensitive layer thereof being controlled to 0.9 .mu.m or smaller, silver halide to coupler ratio in said blue-sensitive layer ranges from 2 to 5 as a molar ratio, and said color developer contains from 3.5.times.10.sup.-2 to 1.5.times.10.sup.-1 mol/l of a chloride ion and from 3.0.times.10.sup.-5 to 1.0.times.10.sup.-3 mol/l of a bromide ion. The method achieves rapid processing to provide an image having high maximum density and low density without causing streaky pressure marks even when processing is carried out with an automatic developing machine or without a variation of photographic characteristics, particularly gradation in low density areas, occurring even when processing is carried out continuously.

Color photographic image formation method

A silver halide photographic material having at least one light-sensitive emulsion layer containing surface latent image type silver halide grains on a support, wherein the emulsion layer contains a silver halide emulsion, in an amount of 50% by weight or more, which is a substantially silver iodide-free silver chlorobromide comprising silver chloride in an amount of 70 mol % or more (as a mean value) of the total silver halide constituting the silver halide grains, which has a silver bromide-localized phase with a silver bromide content of less than 70 mol % in the inside or on the surface of the grains, and which further contains ions on in the grains.

Silver halide photographic materials

A silver halide photographic light-sensitive material having at least one light-sensitive emulsion layer containing surface latent image-type silver halide grains, coated on a reflective support, in which said at least one emulsion layer contains regular crystal grains of silver chloride or silver chlorobromide having a mean silver chloride content of 80 mol % or more on the basis of the total silver halide grains contained therein and substantially does not contain silver iodide, and in which a colloidal silver-containing layer is located adjacent to said emulsion layer, wherein at least one of said colloidal silver-containing layer, said emulsion layer and an interlayer therebetween contains at least one mercaptoazole compound. The material is, after having imagewise exposed, processed with a color developer within 90 seconds. The material forms an image with excellent sharpness and whiteness.

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Kazunori Hasebe