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US 6,475,711 B1Granted
Photographic element and digital film processing method using same
AssigneeApplied Science Fiction, Inc.
InventorsStacy S. Cook, Albert D. Edgar
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Abstract
A photographic element including a light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having a dye precursor incorporated therein, wherein the dye precursor is capable of forming an infrared dye. A method of developing a latent image on an exposed photographic element is also provided.
Claims14
A method of developing a latent image on an exposed photographic element, comprising:
- (a) providing a photographic element comprising a light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having a dye precursor incorporated therein;
- (b) applying a developer solution to said photographic element, thereby developing said latent image and forming said dye in said photographic element;
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- (c) scanning said photographic element with light while said latent image is developing, said light having a wavelength which is attenuated by said dye.
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