Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Noboru Ohta

Tsuneo Suzuki

Koji Takahashi

Hiroshi Hara

Akio Mitsui

Makoto Tsugita

Koju Takahashi

Density range division of component dyes of a color hard copy which is obtained by the combination of quantized color image signals is performed so that the lightness of the gray scale of the color hard copy is equally divided in accordance with the level number of the quantized color image signals. The density range division is also characterized in that the lightness of the component dyes of the color hard copy is equally divided in accordance with the level number of the quantized color image signals.

Method for dividing density range of component dyes in color hard copy

A color hard copy of a picture displayed on, for example, a screen of a color television set is obtained by a signal converter in which an inclination of brightness with respect to the saturation of a color of the hard copy is modified by a signal converting circuit so as to be in accord with an inclination of brightness with respect to the saturation of the displayed color picture, a signal level of a signal regarding the specific color designated by a color setter is changed, and the color development density of the specific color element designated by a dye amount setter is also changed, whereby a color hard copy in which the specific color is maximumly corrected can be obtained.

Method for converting color picture signals

A thermodevelopable photographic material is described, comprising a support, at least one photographic silver halide emulsion layer coated thereon, and a dye donating substance capable of forming or releasing a mobile dye in response to, or in inverse response to, the reduction of silver halide in said emulsion to silver by heating, wherein the color of an image formed by the fixing of each of said mobile dyes released by exposure and heating to a dye fixing layer is within the range of a*=10 to -18 and b*=10 to -18 determined from tristimulus values in the 10 degree visual field XYZ system under standard light C.

Thermodevelopable silver halide photographic material and process for

A silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material comprising at least three silver halide emulsion layer units sensitive to blue, green and red light, respectively, at least one of the silver halide emulsion layer units having at least two layers which are different in sensitivity from each other and containing at least Coupler (A') described below and Coupler (B) described below, and one of said layers is in charge of color formation of the highest density portion in the characteristics curve of these layers and contains Coupler (B) described below which forms a dye having the maximum absorption wavelength different from a dye formed from Coupler (A) described below in an amount of at least 30 mol % of the total amount of the couplers included therein, wherein Coupler (A) denotes (i) a coupler which forms a dye having a maximum absorption in the wavelength range from 400 nm to less than (the maximum absorption wavelength of a dye formed from Coupler (A')+5) nm, when employed in a blue-sensitive layer unit, (ii) a coupler which forms a dye having the maximum absorption in the wavelength range from 510 nm to less than (the maximum absorption wavelength of a dye formed from Coupler (A')+5) nm, when employed in a green-sensitive layer unit, or (iii) a coupler which forms a dye having the maximum absorption in the wavelength range from more than (the maximum absorption wavelength of a dye formed from Coupler (A'-5) nm to 700 nm, when employed in a red-sensitive layer unit; Coupler (A') denotes a coupler which is employed in the largest amount by mol among the couplers contained in one or more layers other than the layer which is in charge of color formation of the highest density portion in a characteristic curve of the silver halide emulsion layer unit, or Coupler (B) denotes a coupler which forms a dye having the maximum absorption in the wavelength range other than that of a dye formed from Coupler (A). The silver halide color photographic light-sensitive material is excellent in color reproducibility over a wide range from low density areas to high density areas and stability.

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Noboru Ohta