Patent 6138075 Issued on October 24, 2000. Estimated Expiration Date: August 5, 2018. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.
The invention provides methods and systems for analyzing seismic data. In one method, a set of three-dimensional seismic signal traces are provided. A reference of one of the traces is compared with at least two neighboring traces to find a neighbor trace with the least or most similarity to the reference trace. This neighbor trace is defined as a target trace. The reference trace is then compared with the target trace to produce a comparison value which is saved for later output or display.
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