Image forming method
AssigneeKonica Corporation
InventorsHiroaki Takano, Hideaki Haraga, Kouji Tashiro
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Abstract
An image forming method is disclosed, wherein a photographic element comprising a support having on at least one side thereof at least a photographic component layer containing light sensitive silver halide is subjected to exposure and photographic processing to form a dye image, in which the photographic processing is allowed to be completed, while the residual silver content in the photographic element is 5% or more; image information in the visible light wavelength region, in which the dye image has absorption, and image information in the invisible light wavelength region are read, and the obtained image information is further subjected to image processing to reduce noise due to the residual silver.
Claims13
An image forming method comprising the steps of:
- (a) exposing a photographic element comprising a support having on at least one side thereof one or more photographic component layers including a component layer containing light sensitive silver halide and a dye forming coupler and
- (b) subjecting the exposed photographic element to photographic processing to form a dye image, wherein the photographic processing is allowed to be completed, while the residual silver content in the photographic element, as defined below, is 5% or more,
- and the method further comprises:
- (c) subjecting the processed photographic element to image processing, which comprises
- (c-1) reading image information in the visible light wavelength region and image information in the invisible light wavelength region corresponding to the residual silver and
- (c-2) subjecting the read image information to operational calculus to reduce image information due to the residual silver,
- Residual silver content=(Silver weight per unit area of a maximum exposure portion after subjected to the photographic processing/silver weight per unit area before subjected to the photographic processing)×100.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.