Bierman & Bierman
Dye image forming process
 In a dye image forming process in color photography comprising imagewise exposing a photographic element comprising a support and a light sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, and processing the exposed photographic element with an alkaline processing solution in the presence of a dye developer whereby a dye image corresponding to the imagewise exposure is formed by oxidation of said developer as a function of development of silver halide, the improvement which comprises the dye developer being a mono azo dye developer represented by the following formula: EQU X--N.dbd.N--Y--NH--Z wherein X represents a monovalent group selected from an aromatic group, a non-aromatic-heterocyclic active-methylene-containing group, a non-aromatic-heterocyclic active-methyne-containing group, an aliphatic active-methylene-containing group, and an aliphatic active-methyne-containing group; and Y and Z respectively represent divalent and monovalent groups of an aromatic group, at least one of the X, Y and Z has therein at least one of the developer groups which are either capable of developing silver halide or changeable to a group capable of developing silver halide, the azo radical (--N=N--) and the secondary amino radical (--NH--) are respectively attached to the adjacent carbon atoms in Y, the azo radical being attached to an aromatic ring of the aromatic group of X or to the active methylene or methyne of X and is attached to an aromatic ring of the aromatic group of Y, and the amino radical is attached to aromatic rings of Y and Z. 
Mitsubishi Chemical Industries Limited Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd.
C G
C09B G03C
inventional inventional
Noboru Kenji Tadanori Yuzuru Ryuichiro Naoshi Kazumasa
Mizukura Yoshida Oya Sato Kobayashi Kunieda Watanabe