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stemmed directly from its significantly high background noise. To filter this noise, the high-frequency response of theatre playback systems was deliberately curtailed… To make matters worse, to increase dialogue intelligibility over such systems, sound mixers were recording soundtracks with so much
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which funded a physics professorship and the building of the Ray Dolby Centre, to be completed in 2024. In 2022, the Dolby Family Fund for Excellence in Physics was expected to fund further academic posts and PhD studentships, as well as an annual symposium.
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The Dolby B consumer noise-reduction system works by compressing (boosting) low-level high-frequency sounds during recording and expanding (decreasing) them symmetrically during playback, which also decreases inherent tape noise. This reduces the
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For his contributions to theater sound and his continuing work in noise reduction and quality improvements in audio and video systems and as a prime inventor of the videotape recorder
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and David, and four grandchildren. Kevin Yeaman, president and chief executive of Dolby Laboratories, said, "Today we lost a friend, mentor and true visionary."
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After his pioneering work with audiotape noise reduction, Dolby sought to improve film sound. As Dolby Laboratories' corporate history explains:
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level of tape hiss. The professional Type A system operates on four different frequency bands, and the final SR system on ten.
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for analog tape recorders. His first U.S. patent application was made in 1969, four years later. The system was first used by
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As a non degree-holding "consultant", Dolby played a key role in the effort that led Ampex to unveil their prototype
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on September 12, 2013, at his home in San Francisco at the age of 80. Dolby was survived by his wife
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in 1976. In fewer than ten years, 6,000 cinemas worldwide were equipped to use Dolby Stereo sound.
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Ray Dolby: Engineer, Businessman, Pilot: Based on an Oral History by Peter Cowie
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in London with a staff of four. In that same year, 1965, he invented the
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in India until 1965, when he returned to England, where he founded
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Recipients of the Scientific and Technical Academy Award of Merit
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Upon investigation, Dolby found that many of the limitations in
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scheme for the cinema. Dolby Stereo Digital (now simply called
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After Cambridge, Dolby acted as a technical advisor to the
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high-frequency pre-emphasis that high distortion resulted.
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The campaign for the University and Colleges of Cambridge
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2000 — honorary Doctor of Science degree from
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recorder in April 1956 which soon entered production.
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Group photo of the Ampex VTR team including Ray Dolby
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American electrical engineer and inventor (1933–2013)
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Honorary officers of the Order of the British Empire
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2004 — elected an Honorary Fellow of the
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Hon OBE
HonFREng

National Inventors Hall of Fame
Portland, Oregon
San Francisco, California
Stanford University
BE
Pembroke College, Cambridge
PhD
Dagmar Bäumert
Tom Dolby
Electrical engineering
physics
Dolby Laboratories
Dolby NR
Surround sound
National Medal of Technology
Order of the British Empire
United States Army
Hon OBE
HonFREng
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engineer
noise
Dolby NR
video tape recorder
Ampex
Dolby Laboratories
Portland, Oregon

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