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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 02, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Tawara Komamura, Hino, JP;
Shinri Tanaka, Hino, JP;
Michiko Nagato, Hino, JP;
Hiroyuki Iizuka, Hino, JP;
Noritaka Nakayama, Hino, JP;
Naoshi Kunieda, Hino, JP;
Hideaki Haraga, Hino, JP;
Assignee:
Konica Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
430398 ; 430399 ;
Abstract
A method to recover the resources incorporated in a photographic material is disclosed. An exposed silver salt light-sensitive photographic material is subjected to color development processing; the obtained image information is optically read; digital image information is obtained by converting the read information to electrical signals, and the resulting image information is recorded on a recording medium, and resources incorporated in a photographic material is recovered from the processed photographic material.