Patent ID: 8493321

Claim:
A television receiver, comprising: an image display panel; a casing having a base part mountable on a horizontal surface, a rising part rising from said base part at a predetermined angle, and a panel retaining part connected to an upper part of said rising part, said panel retaining part retaining said image display panel; a first circuit board having a shield member, a tuner to receive a broadcast television signal, an image processing unit for processing an image signal to be displayed on said image display panel, and an audio processing unit for processing an audio signal, said first circuit board being disposed in said base part; a second circuit board for generating a driving signal for driving said image display panel for display on a basis of the image signal processed by said first circuit board, said second circuit board having a width which is substantially the same as that of said image display panel, said second circuit board being disposed in said rising part; wherein the driving signal generated by said second circuit board is supplied to said image display panel, and said image display panel displays an image, the image display panel is disposed in said panel retaining part without a circuit board placed thereon such that said panel retaining part has a thickness of a few millimeters, and the shield member is the only shield member in the television receiver and is arranged on the first circuit board in said base part such that a back of said image display panel does not have a shield member; a cooling unit disposed in the base part; and first and second speaker boxes disposed at opposing ends of an upper surface of the base part, the first speaker box including a first plurality of speaker units, the second speaker box including a second plurality of speaker units, each speaker unit of the first and second pluralities of speaker units being disposed at a rear portion of the base part and adjacent to a front surface of the rising part with a sound output surface thereof facing upward toward the front surface of the rising part so that sound from the respective sound output surface hits the front surface of the rising part and is thereby directed frontward, the audio signal processed by the audio processing unit being supplied to each speaker unit, the first and second speaker boxes having different shapes to avoid a position at which the cooling unit is disposed but having substantially same volumes so that the first and second speaker boxes have equal acoustic characteristics with the speaker units of the first and second pluralities of speaker units having a same size and being arranged in a lateral row in parallel with a rear edge of the rear portion of the base part.