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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 1993
Filed:
Sep. 28, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Peter Bell, Koln, DE;
Cuong Ly, Koln, DE;
Assignee:
Bayer Aktiengesellschaft, Leverkusen, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
430505 ; 540957 ; 540567 ;
Abstract
A colour photographic silver halide material having at least one silver halide emulsion layer which contains at least one colour coupler and in which the silver halide grains contain from 40 to 90 mol. % of AgCl and at least two zones differing in halide composition, the chloride content of the outer zone being at least 10 mol. % higher than that of the inner zone, which silver halide emulsion layer is associated with a DIR compound whose reaction with the oxidized colour developer has a rate constant k>2000 [1/mol.s] is distinguished by excellent sharpness and colour reproduction even when processed by a high speed process.