Dolby Laboratories, Inc.

Dolby Laboratories, Inc. engages in the provision of audio and imaging technologies. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California and currently employs 2,051 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2005-02-17. The two primary components of its licensing business are Branded Technologies, which include Branded Audio Codecs, Dolby Atmos & Dolby Vision, and Patents, which include Audio Patents and Imaging Patents. The firm's cinema imaging products include digital cinema servers used to load, store, decrypt, decode, watermark, and playback digital film files for presentation on digital cinema projectors and software used to encrypt, encode and package digital media files for distribution. Its cinema audio products include cinema processors, amplifiers and loudspeakers used to decode, render, and optimally play back digital cinema soundtracks, including those using Dolby Atmos. The company also offers various services to support theatrical and television production for cinema, broadcast, and home entertainment.