Patent ID: 7684574

Claim:
A reflective loudspeaker array comprising: a frame that includes a curved surface longitudinally extending between a first end and a second end of the frame, where the first end is operable to be positioned near an acoustically reflective planar surface; at least five loudspeakers adjacently disposed in the frame so that at least a portion of the at least five loudspeakers are disposed in the curved surface, where a sound emitting surface of each of the at least five loudspeakers comprises a frontal plane, each of the at least five loudspeakers configured to receive a respective audio signal; a first of the at least five loudspeakers disposed nearest the first end of the frame, where the frontal plane of the first of the at least five loudspeakers is positioned substantially perpendicular to the acoustically reflective planar surface when the first end is aligned with the acoustically reflective planar surface; a second of the at least five loudspeakers disposed proximate the second end of the frame, where the frontal plane of the second of the at least five loudspeakers is non linear with respect to the frontal plane of the first of the at least five loudspeakers, and a magnitude of the respective audio signal received by the first of the at least five loudspeakers is greater than a magnitude of the respective audio signal received by the second of the at least five loudspeakers; and the at least five loudspeakers operable to generate a direct sound wave, a portion of which is reflected with the acoustically reflective planar surface to form a reflected sound wave, and all of the reflected sound wave is constructively combined with the direct sound wave.