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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2022
Applicant:
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);
Inventor:
Benjamin Alexander Jancovich, Arncliffe, AU;
Assignee:
Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation, San Francisco, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/34 (2006.01); H04R 1/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/345 (2013.01); H04R 1/2811 (2013.01); H04R 2499/15 (2013.01);
Abstract
A speaker having a narrow aperture waveguide for transmitting sound from the rear side of a flat display panel. A transducer of the speaker radiates sound through the waveguide and outwards from the rear of the display panel and around an edge of the display panel to form soundwaves radiating directly or nearly directly to a listener positioned in front of the display panel. The waveguide includes fins that control the directivity of soundwaves exiting the waveguide and around the edge of the display panel.