Method of forming colored images

Claim 3

A method of forming a colored image as claimed in claim 1, wherein the localized silver bromide phase is present in a discontinuous isolated form at the surface of the silver halide grains.

Claim 4

A method of forming a colored image as claimed in claim 1, wherein the localized silver bromide phase is doped with iridium ions.

Claim 5

A method of forming a colored image as claimed in claim 1, wherein a scanning exposure is made using the second harmonics of a semiconductor laser.

Claim 6

A method of forming a colored image as claimed in claim 1, wherein the silver halide grains present in at least one of the green sensitive silver halide emulsion and red sensitive silver halide emulsion layers are silver halide grains in which there is a silver bromide containing layer at the corners of the grain surface, in which from 95 to 99.5 mol % of all the grains in said emulsion layer consist of silver chloride with a silver bromide content of from 0.5 to 5 mol %, and in which said metal ions selected from the group consisting of Ir, Fe, Rh, Pd, Pt and Ni are present.

Claim 7

A method of forming a colored image as claimed in claim 1, in which a laser is used as the scanning light source.

Claim 8

A method of forming a colored image as claimed in claim 1, wherein the scanning exposure is performed with a scanning light source which produces second harmonics which are obtained using a semiconductor laser and a second harmonic conversion element.

Claim 9

A method of forming a colored image as claimed in claim 7, wherein the second harmonic conversion element is an organic non-linear optical material.

Claim 10

A method of forming a colored image as claimed in claim 8, wherein the organic non-linear optical material is at least one compound which is represented by the general formulae (VII) or (VIII) ##STR71## wherein Z 1 represents a group of atoms which is required to form a five or six membered aromatic ring which has at least one nitro group as a substituent group, Z 2 represents a group of atoms which is required to form a pyrrole ring, an imidazole ring, a pyrazole ring, a triazole ring or a tetrazole ring which may have substituent groups and condensed rings; ##STR72## wherein Z 1 and Z 2 may be the same or different, each represents a nitrogen atom or a CR 2 group; X represents an alkyl group, an aryl group, a halogen atom, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, an acylamino group, a carbamoyl group, a sulfamoyl group, an acyloxy group, an alkoxycarbonyl group, an aryloxycarbonyl group, an alkoxysulfonyl group, an aryloxysulfonyl group, an alkylthio group, an arylthio group, a hydroxyl group, a thio group, a carboxyl group, a ureido group, a cyano group, an alkylsulfonyl group, an arylsulfonyl group, an alkylsulfinyl group, an arylsulfinyl group or a nitro group; n represents 0 or an integer of a value from 1 to 3; R 1 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group or an acyl group and R 2 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an aryl group.

Claim 11

A method of forming a colored image as claimed in claim 7, wherein the wavelength conversion element has a guide structure.

Claim 12

A method of forming a colored image as claimed in claim 7, wherein the wavelength conversion element has a fiber type structure.