Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.

Konica Corporation

Mitsuto Fujiwhara

Toyoaki Masukawa

Syunji Matsuo

Yutaka Kaneko

Mikio Kawasaki

Takaya Endo

Tamotsu Kojima

Takashi Uchida

Ryosuke Satoh

Takashi Sasaki

Satoshi Nakagawa

Shoji Kikuchi

Akio Iijima

Wataru Ishikawa

Hiroshi Shimazaki

Tsuneo Wada

Toshihiko Kimura

Katsunori Kato

Ryosuke Sato

Morio Kobayashi

Wataru Fujimatsu

Naoto Abe

Shinji Yoshimoto

Hiroyuki Imamura

Keiji Oishi

Takahiro Uozumi

Yasuko Matsubara

Yasumasa Numata

Hiroshi Tokura

Kenji Itoh

Seiji Muramoto

Takao Nimura

Keiji Kasai

Yoshinobu Nakagawa

Osamu Ezawa

There is disclosed a light-sensitive photographic material which comprises a silver halide emulsion layer containing a first coupler dispersed in oil droplets, a second coupler dispersed in an alkali aqueous solution and a compound capable of releasing a diffusible development inhibiting substance or a precursor thereof. The specified combination of the first and the second couplers with the diffusible DIR coupler according to the present invention provide a good inter image effect whereby color images having excellent color balance are obtained. The first coupler is preferably selected from compounds of the formula (II), (III), (IV), (V), (VI), (VII) (VIII) which contain at least one lipophilic substituent; and the second coupler is preferably selected from compounds of the formula (IV), (V), (VI), (VII), or (VIII) which do not contain a lipophilic substituent: ##STR1##

Light-sensitive photographic material comprising lipophilic coupler

A process for producing a chlorohenylhydrazine compound is disclosed, which comprises chlorinating at least one hydrogen atom on the phenyl nucleus in a beta-imidated phenylhydrazine compound and subsequently hydrolyzing the chlorinated compound. Said chlorophenylhydrazine compound is useful as starting material for the production of herbicide, insecticide and photographic coupler is produced in high yield and low cost.

Process for producing chlorophenylhydrazine compounds

A negative-working silver halide color photographic material is disclosed which has at least one silver halide emulsion layer on a support, said material including a pyrazolotriazole-based magenta coupler and means for forming an unsharp positive image.

Silver halide color photographic material

A light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material, comprising at least one photographic constituent layer containing a multi-functional dye which becomes substantially colorless in the presence of the oxidized product of a color developing agent through the reaction with the oxidized product, and becomes substantially colorless in the absence of the oxidized product of the color developing agent during the color-photographic processing step. According to the present invention, a color light-sensitive material containing a multi-functional compound having excellent sharpness, good color reproducibility and further excellent graininess can be obtained.

Light-sensitive silver halide color photographic material containing

A photosensitive silver halide colored photographic material having (1) ballasted couplers combined with photosensitive silver halide emulsions and (2) colored compounds capable of reacting with oxidized developing agent, wherein the colored compounds are capable of diffusing in the photographic material during developing treatments and have their principal absorption in the main absorption wavelength region of the dye produced by the reaction of the coupler with the developing agent.

Silver halide color photo-sensitive material

High-contrast light-sensitive silver halide photographic material which comprises a support, a silver halide emulsion layer containing silver halide and another hydrophilic colloidal layer coated on the support, at least one of said silver halide emulsion layer and another hydrophilic colloidal layer containing a substantially non-diffusible compound having oxidizing power on a hydroquinone developing agent, and the thickness, in an aqueous solution having the composition described as in the specification kept at 23.degree. C., of said at least one layer being from 1.2-4.5 times that of said layer dried in an atmosphere at 23.degree. C. at a relative humidity of 55%.

High-contrast light-sensitive silver halide photographic material

In the process for preparing impregnated polymer latex compositions by impregnating a hydrophobic substance in dispersed polymer particles in an aqueous polymer latex, the improvement comprises impregnating said hydrophobic substance, wherein the impregnation is effected by mixing said hydrophobic substance which is solid state, a water-miscible organic solvent and aqueous polymer latex wherein a polymer of the polymer latex is prepared from ethene monomers and containing at least one hydrophilic group.

Process for preparing impregnated polymer latex compositions

A photographic yellow coupler having a general formula selected from the group consisting of (I), (II) and (III) ##STR1## wherein A is a yellow coupler residue defined by removing one hydrogen atom of a active methylene group from a yellow coupler having the active methylene group; Q is a group having a formula selected from the group consisting of ##STR2## and ##STR3## (where X and Y are individually a hydrogen atom or an alkyl, acyl, aryl or aralkyl group; Z is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl, aryl or aralkyl group; and R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are individually a hydrogen atom or an alkyl, aryl or aralkyl group or both of R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 together may form a benzylidene group or a cycloalkyl group); and Q' is a group of the formula --CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 -- or ##STR4## (wherein R.sub.3 is a hydrogen or halogen atom or an alkoxy group; R.sub.4 is a hydrogen or halogen atom, an amino, acylamino, ureido, lower alkyl, alkoxy or hydroxy group; and R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 are individually a lower alkyl group).

Photographic silver halide materials containing yellow coupler

The present invention relates to a method of forming a dye image which involves processing a light-sensitive silver halide photographic image, after its imagewise exposure, in the presence of a novel yellow coupler as depicted in the formula below and an aromatic primary amine color developing agent ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 represents cyano, alkyl carbonyl, phenylalkyl carbonyl, phenoxy alkyl carbonyl, phenylthio alkyl carbonyl, arylcarbonyl, alkyl phenyl carbonyl, alkoxy phenyl carbonyl, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5 independently are hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, alkylacyloxy, arylacyloxy, acylamino, N-alkyl carbamoyl, N-phenylcarbamoyl, alkylsulfonamido, arylsulfonamido, N-alkyl sulfamoyl, N-phenylsulfamoyl, or imido, R.sub.6 represents cycloalkyl, alkenyl, naphthyl, thienyl, benzothienyl, furyl, or pyranyl, or a group of the formula (II): ##STR2## wherein R.sub.7, R.sub.9 and R.sub.11 are each hydrogen or alkyl, the sum of the carbon atoms in R.sub.7, R.sub.9 and R.sub.11 being 5 to 20, R.sub.8 and R.sub.10 are hydrogen, and Y represents non-metal atoms required for forming 2,5-dioxo-imidazolidine, 2-3,5-trioxo-imidazolidine, 2,5-dioxo-triazolidine, 2,4-oxazolidinedione, 2,4-thiazolidinedione, 2(1H)-pyridone, 2(1H)-pyrazone, 5(1H)-imidazolone, 5(1H)-triazolone, 2(1H)-pyrimidone, 2-pyrazolone (5), 2-isothiazolone(5), 2(1H)-quinaoxazolone, 4(3H)-pyrimidone, 2-benzoxazolone, 4-isooxazolone(5), 3-fluorone(2), 4-imidazolone(2), 3-pyrazolone, 2-tetrazolone(5), 3-tetrazolone(5), and derivatives thereof.

Method of forming dye image

A color photographic material comprising a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer coated on a support containing a magenta coupler represented by general formual [I] or [II]: ##STR1## wherein, R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl, aryl or 5 or 6-membered heterocyclic group, R.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl, aryl, 5 or 6-membered heterocyclic, amino, sulfamoyl or carbamoyl group, R.sub.3 represents an alkyl, aryl or 5 or 6-membered heterocyclic group having from 12 to 35 carbon atoms, R.sub.4 represents an alkyl group having from 2 to 8 carbon atoms or a phenyl group, and R.sub.5 represents an alkyl group having from 2 to 8 carbon atoms.

Light-sensitive silver halide color photographic materials

A photographic material having a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer coated on a support and containing a compound, useful as a development inhibitor of the formula: ##STR1## wherein X, Y and Z are as herein defined, is described.

Light-sensitive silver halide photographic materials

Light-sensitive silver halide photographic materials to be treated with a hydroquinones-containing developing solution which material comprises a support and at least one hydrophilic colloidal layer coated thereon containing silver halide grains having an average grain size of 0.05 to 1.5.mu. and a tetrazolium compound and a method of processing thereof.

Light-sensitive silver halide photographic material containing

Light-sensitive silver halide photographic materials to be treated with a hydroquinones-containing developing solution which material comprises a support and at least one hydrophilic colloidal layer coated thereon which contains silver halide grains having an average grain size of 0.05 to 1.5.mu., a tetrazolium compound and a sensitizing dye.

Light-sensitive silver halide photographic material and method of

A color photosensitive material having a support and a silver halide photosensitive layer which material includes a coupler represented by the following formulas (IV), (V) or (VI) having therein a group represented by formula (I), said coupler being capable of forming an azomethine dye on coupling with the oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developer: ##STR1## wherein the substituents on the above formulas is herein defined, is described, said couplers capable of giving improved light fastness.

In a process for providing a color image which comprises imagewise exposing a multilayered light-sensitive photographic material comprising a support and a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer not having a coupler incorporated therein and thereafter developing said exposed photographic material with a coupler-containing color developer, the speed and color density of the image are improved by incorporating into the light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer or the layer contiguous therewith oil particles of a high boiling solvent such as phthalate, phosphate, amide and alcohol type solvents.

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Mitsuto Fujiwhara