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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 26, 1998
Suemei Fukuhara, Hirakata, JP;
Isao Kuramitsu, Hirakata, JP;
Tatsuya Omori, Uji, JP;
Toshiyuki Mizutani, Mino, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka-fu, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides a loudspeaker capable of matching a sound image and a picture image on a screen of an image reproducer with each other in simple construction and a simple method of installation. The loudspeaker is located above the image reproducer in the vicinity thereof and so constructed as to reproduce a center channel signal in a multichannel sound signal for a movie or the like as a principal object, which comprises a main speaker unit, particular band preventing means for suppressing the level of a particular band in a band of not less than approximately 4 kHz of the main speaker unit, a sub-speaker unit, particular band passing means connected to the sub-speaker unit for passing only the particular band, and a dispersing device located on a front surface of the sub-speaker unit and so constructed that a reproduced sound radiated from the sub-speaker unit is mainly composed of a diffused sound.