1,4-benzoquinone oxidizing agents for color transfer processes

Claim 1

IN A PROCESS OF FORMING PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES IN COLOR WHEREIN A LATENT IMAGE CONTAINED IN AN EXPOSED SILVER HALIDE EMULSION IS DEVELOPED WITH AN AQUEOUS ALKALINE SOLUTION COMPRISING A COLOR-PROVIDING DEVELOPING AGENT TO THEREBY PROVIDE AN IMAGEWISE DISTRIBUTION OF UNOXIDIZED COLOR-PROVIDING DEVELOPING AGENT IN UNEXPOSED AREAS, SAID COLOR-PROVIDING DEVELOPING AGENT BEING SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF COLOR DEVELOPERS, LECUO INDOPHENOL SILVER HALIDE DEVELOPERS, AND DYE DEVELOPERS SAID LEUCO INDOPHENOL SILVER HALIDE DEVELOPERS BEING COMPOUNDS WHICH ARE BOTH LEUCO INDOPHENOL DYES AND SILVER HALIDE DEVELOPERS AND SAID DYE DEVELOPERS BEING COMPOUNDS, WHICH ARE BOTH DYES AND SILVER HALIDE DEVELOPING AGENTS, AND WHEREIN AT LEAST A PORTION OF SAID DISTRIBUTION OF UNOXIDIZED COLOR-PROVIDING DEVELOPING AGENTS IS TRANS FERRED, BY IMBIBITION, FROM SAID EMULSION TO AN IMAGERECEIVING LAYER, IN SUPERPOSED RELATIONSHIP WITH SAID EMULSION, AND THE TRANSFERRED COLOR-PROVIDING DEVELOPING AGENT IS OXIDIZED TO PARTAKE IN THE FORMATION OIF THE DYE IMAGE; THE STEP CHARACTERIZED BY THE FEATURE THAT A COMPOUND SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF 1,4-BENZOQUINONE AND CARBOXY-, SULFO-, NITRO-, CYANO-, ALDO-, KETO-, AND ALKYLSUBSTITUTED 1,4-BENZOQUINONE IS USED AS THE OXIDIZING AGENT.