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Greetings,

Below is a press release that will be hitting the wire on Saturday, May 1st, to 
coincide with the National Inventor's Hall of Fame ceremony.

Best,
Krista Payne
Dolby Laboratories, Inc.



Ray Dolby Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame

Founder and Chairman of Dolby Laboratories Honored for Innovation

May 1, 2004, Akron, Ohioâ??Ray Dolby was inducted into the National Inventors 
Hall of Fame today in recognition of his invention of the Dolby® noise 
reduction system which electronically reduces the tape hiss and other noise 
inherent in analog audio tape recording and playback.   

â??Ray Dolby changed the face of the recording industry with his noise 
reduction system. The multitrack recording techniques that blossomed in the 
late 1960s and early 1970s would have been impossible without Dolbyâ??s 
invention because the tape hiss would have been intolerable,â?? said Fred 
Allen, head of the Selection Committee for the National Inventors Hall of Fame 
Foundation.  â??And today, applied to consumer formats and motion picture 
sound, the results are even more far-reaching. With the removal of tape noise, 
cinema sound became higher fidelity and paved the way for even more 
sophisticated surround sound formats like Dolby Stereo.â?? 

With Dolby noise reduction, sound is passed through an encoder as it is 
recorded, and then played back through a decoder, dramatically lowering 
background noise and hiss added by the recording process with none of the side 
effects inherent in previous attempts at noise reduction.

At a ceremony today at the National Inventors Hall of Fame headquarters in 
Akron, Ohio, Dolby, along with nineteen other inventors including Frederick 
Banting, Charles Best, and James Collip, the inventors of insulin; Harry 
Coover, the inventor of Superglue; Ivan Getting and Bradford Parkinson, 
co-inventors of Global Positioning Systems, joined such legendary inventors as 
Alexander Graham Bell, Eli Whitney, and Thomas Edison in the National Inventors 
Hall of Fame.  To qualify for this distinction, an inducteeâ??s invention must 
have contributed to the welfare of society and have promoted the progress of 
science and the useful arts. All nominations are reviewed by the National 
Inventors Hall of Fame Selection Committee, comprising representatives from 
national science and technology organizations.

Ray Dolby received a BS in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 
1957 and a PhD in physics from Cambridge University in 1961. He founded Dolby 
Laboratories in 1965 to further develop his ideas about noise reduction. By 
1967, major record labels such as Decca in the UK and RCA, MCA, and CBS in the 
US were using Dolby noise reduction. 

For nearly 40 years, Ray and Dolby Laboratories have continued to innovate and 
lead sound technology. Highlights include Dolby Stereo, the first Dolby 
multichannel surround sound format for the cinema which gained widespread 
recognition with the release Star Wars in 1977. Dolby then brought surround 
sound to the home in the early â??80s with the invention of Dolby Surround and 
Dolby Surround Pro Logic®. The company's reputation as a leader in audio 
technology was greatly enhanced in 1986 with the introduction of Dolby SR 
(spectral recording), a powerful new system which improved existing 
professional analog recorders to equal, and in some respects surpass, very 
costly digital recorders. In 1992, Dolby Digital was introduced for 
multichannel applications, including film sound and digital surround sound in 
the home.  

Today, Dolby Laboratories continues to bring the entertainment experience 
forward with such remarkable technologies as Dolby Digital EX, Dolby Headphone, 
Dolby Virtual Speaker, and Dolby Pro Logic II. Dolby technologies have 
applications in audio recording and post-production, cinema, home theater, 
television broadcasting, PCs, videogames, automobiles, and personal computers.

Dolby Laboratories has licensed over 1.5 billion consumer products, including 
over 500 million products incorporating Dolby Digital and almost 200 million 
home theater systems incorporating Dolby technology. Additionally, the company 
has been granted 780 patents in 28 countries and 771 trademark registrations in 
96 countries. Dolby films are mixed in 50 countries.

About Dolby Laboratories
Dolby Laboratories creates technologies that intensify and enhance the 
entertainment experience. For nearly four decades, Dolby has been instrumental 
in defining high-quality audio and surround sound in cinema, broadcast, home 
audio systems, cars, DVDs, headphones, games, televisions, and personal 
computers. Based in San Francisco with European headquarters in England, the 
privately held company has entertainment industry liaison offices in New York 
and Los Angeles, and licensing liaison offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, 
and Tokyo. For more information about Dolby Laboratories or Dolby technologies, 
please visit www.dolby.com.

Dolby, Pro Logic, and the double-D symbol are registered trademarks of Dolby 
Laboratories.

Media Contact:
Adam Anderson
Dolby Laboratories
aja@xxxxxxxxx
415-645-5176



 
 
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