258 85 http://www.patentstorm.us/ http://www.patentstorm.us/images/logo.gif http://www.patentstorm.us/rss/class/applications/rss-367.xml Recent patent applications filings in USPTO Class 367 Communications, electrical: acoustic wave systems and devices. Thu, 9 Feb 2012 15:02:06 patents@patentstorm.us en http://www.patentstorm.us/applications/20120033530/description.html

Application Number:  20120033530

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Nishimura, Osamu; Enamito, Akihiko

According to one embodiment, a sound image localization apparatus includes following units. The first signal generating unit is configured to generate a first acoustic signal. The first speaker is configured to generate a first sound according to the first acoustic signal. The input unit is configured to input a localization magnification n. The first control filter unit is configured to adjust the first acoustic signal with a first control filter G1 calculated based on the input ...
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Application Number:  20120033529

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Eick, Peter M.; Brewer, Joel D.

The invention relates to processing seismic data that includes signals from at least two sources and typically three or four sources where source separation is necessary for geophysical analysis. Specifically, the present invention is an analytical technique that quickly creates a more accurate source signature delivered by analysis of the source generated data contamination present in the separated data. The technique is to invert a segment of the data using a seed source signature and compute ...
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Application Number:  20120033528

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Leggett, III, James V.; Zhao, Jinsong

The present disclosure is related to apparatuses and methods for estimating borehole parameters using a plurality of reflections caused by a plurality of acoustic pulses. The reflections may overlap each other and/or the acoustic pulses. The methods may include estimating an envelope of the received acoustic signal at the at least one element of the array of transducers; and estimating at least one arrival time of at least one of the plurality of overlapping events from the envelope of the ...
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Application Number:  20120033527

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  BISLEY, Richard; MOORE, Ian

A method and apparatus for predicting a plurality of surface multiples for a plurality of traces in a record of seismic data. In one embodiment, the method includes providing a plurality of target traces at a nominal offset and a nominal azimuth; selecting a plurality of pairs of input traces, wherein the midpoints of the input traces in each pair are separated by half the nominal offset and the azimuth of a line connecting the midpoints of the input traces in each pair is equal to the nominal ...
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Application Number:  20120033526

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  HEGNA, STIAN; PARKES, GREGORY ERNEST

Seismic data are acquired by actuating a first source at a first time and one or more additional seismic sources each with their own characteristic times with respect to a time of signal recording, the sources substantially collocated and at different depths. A first wavefield is determined that would occur if the first source were actuated at a selected time with respect to an initiation time of the recordings and being time adjusted for the water depth. One or more additional wavefields are ...
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Application Number:  20120033525

Publication Date:  2012-02-09

Inventors:  Abma, Raymond Lee; Beaudouin, Gerard

This is a method of acquiring marine wide azimuth towed streamer seismic data. Preferably, a recording boat which tows a plurality of seismic streamers and at least one source may be accompanied by a plurality of source boats that each tow at least one source. The source boats may preferably activate their respective sources such that the subsurface reflections generated by each source interfere. The time separation between successive shots may preferably be a random variable related to the ...
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Application Number:  20120029738

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Brunetti, Massimo; Gobbi, Simone; Iannucci, Dario; Majori, Emilio

An aircraft capable of hovering, and characterized by having at least one sensor, which has a plane sweep region and is designed to acquire, when the aircraft is manoeuvring, values of respective distances between first points on an obstacle within the plane sweep region, and a second point on the aircraft; and a control unit designed to generate an alarm signal when at least one of the first points lies within a safety region containing the second point on the ...
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Application Number:  20120026839

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventor:  Levine, Jonathan E.

A pest-control device that repels pests with sound is illustrated and described. The pest-control device can, for example, be plugged into a standard wall socket. Sound-transmission openings in the pest-control device can be positioned to selectively direct sound sideways along the wall including the socket. This can increase the effectiveness of the device at repelling pests in corners along the edges of floors and countertops, where pests tend to travel. The pest-control device also can ...
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Application Number:  20120026838

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  KOIKE, Yuji; INOUE, Kazuhito

An audio data processing system is a client-server system including an audio data communication device and an audio data processing device which are linked together via a communication network. The audio data communication device includes an acoustic generator, a control device, a transmitter and a receiver in connection with first and second storage areas. The transmitter sequentially transmits a time series of unprocessed data DA[n] stored in the first storage area, whilst the receiver ...
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Application Number:  20120026837

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  LI, Hai; LI, Juane

In accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure, a process for determining a direction vector of a sound source is described. The process may be implemented to detect, by a first sound sensor, a first sound pressure of a sound wave propagated from the sound source, and detect, by a second sound sensor, a second sound pressure of the sound wave. The process may further be implemented to determine, by a processor, the direction vector of the sound source relative to the first sound ...
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Application Number:  20120026836

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Scripca, Lucian; Scripca, Valentina

A timer switch which is activated by the proximity of an object situated in a given distance range and is present there for a given time ...
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Application Number:  20120026835

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventor:  SHIN, Changsoo

There are provided a subsurface imaging apparatus and method for modeling a subsurface structure by solving a wavefield equation by waveform inversion. A virtual source that generates an observed wavefield and is distributed over grid points of the subsurface is obtained by applying a least-square method to an equation including a Green's function of the subsurface medium. Then, a subsurface model generating the observed wavefield when applying the virtual source is ...
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Application Number:  20120026834

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Edme, Pascal; Kragh, Julian Edward; Muyzert, Everhard

A sensor assembly has first sensors spaced apart along a first direction, and second sensors oriented in a second direction generally orthogonal to the first direction. Differencing of outputs of the first sensors is performed, and differencing of outputs of the second sensors is performed. A signal output is produced by combining the differenced outputs of the first sensors and the differenced outputs of the second sensors, where the signal output represents a seismic response of a ...
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Application Number:  20120026833

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  SOUBARAS, Robert; ZHANG, Yu

Computing device and method for processing seismic traces to produce an image of a subsurface area. The method includes receiving a series of seismic traces related to the subsurface area and recorded by one or more seismic receivers, wherein the one or more seismic sources are originally generated by a source; applying a phase encoding function to the series of seismic traces, at least a portion of said seismic traces comprise signals reflected by geological interfaces of the subsurface area; ...
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Application Number:  20120026832

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  PEPPER, Randolph E.F.; Dubois, Agnes; Marza, Philippe Paul Jacques

A method for structural dip removal. The method includes converting a seismic volume to a depth domain, extracting seismic dips from the seismic volume in the depth domain along a borehole trajectory, analyzing a borehole using the seismic dips to obtain structural dip data, and in response to determining that the seismic dips and borehole dips obtained from borehole imagery are consistent, generating a three dimensional (“3D”) structural model using the structural dip data. The method ...
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Application Number:  20120026831

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventor:  Mickael, Medhat W.

A logging system for measuring anisotrophic properties of the materials penetrated by a borehole. A downhole or “logging tool” element of the system comprises a source section that comprises either a unipole or a dipole acoustic source. The receiver section comprises a plurality of receiver stations disposed at different axial spacings from the acoustic source. Each receiver station comprises one or more acoustic receivers. The system requires that the source and receiver sections rotate ...
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Application Number:  20120026830

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  WANG, Yi; BALE, Richard; GRION, Sergio

Device and method for processing 4-dimensional (4-D) seismic traces. The method includes receiving at least two vintages of seismic traces recorded by seismic receivers for a same subsurface area, wherein said seismic receivers are located at the ocean floor; applying up-down deconvolution to each of said vintages of seismic traces to obtain a representation of a reflectivity of said subsurface area from each vintage of seismic traces; and redatuming the up-down deconvolution result of each ...
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Application Number:  20120026829

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventor:  Hegna, Stian

Three-axis velocity data, obtained along with pressure data in a marine seismic survey, are rotated to a ray direction. Plane wave decomposition is applied in the ray direction to the rotated velocity data. The pressure data and the velocity data are combined to generate at least one of up-going and down-going wave fields. The at least one of up-going and down-going wave fields are used in a time-space domain to image the earth's ...
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Application Number:  20120026828

Publication Date:  2012-02-02

Inventors:  Fjellstad, Ola Erik; Rinnan, Arne; Bache, Snorre; Berge, Olav Magnus; Faugstadmo, Jan Erik; Skjervheim, Sveinung

Control device (10, 50) for controlling the position of an instrumented cable towed in water, such as a marine seismic streamer, and/or an instrumented towed cable array (streamer array) with the possibility of controlling the individual instrumented cables both with in shape and position in relation to other instrumented cables and by that counteract cross currents and/or other dynamic forces which affect a towed array behind a seismic survey vessel, which control device (10, 50) ...
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Application Number:  20120020189

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventors:  Agevik, Markus; Nyström, Martin

The present invention relates to a method for determining an acoustic property of an environment. According to the method a sound signal and at least two reflection signals of the sound signal (are received, and for each of the reflection signals a time difference between a time of reception of the sound signal and a time of reception of the respective reflection signal is determined. Furthermore, for each of the reflection signals, an angle between a reception direction in which the sound ...
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Application Number:  20120020188

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventor:  Mielenz, Holger

An ultrasound sensor for distance detection includes a transducer external surface and a blockage sensor provided on the transducer external surface. The surface of the blockage sensor terminates flush with the transducer external surface and is sensitive to an electrical characteristic or is sensitive to a temperature present at the blockage sensor surface. In this way, the blockage sensor can determine whether the ultrasound transducer is blocked by a layer of ice or whether the sensor is ...
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Application Number:  20120020187

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventors:  Sakai, Takashi; Nakamura, Yasuhiro; Suginouchi, Takehiko; Kunita, Masashi

An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes: a plurality of vibration elements (1) that transmit and receive an ultrasonic beam; a plurality of transmission circuits (2) that are connected to the respective vibration elements and output a transmission driving signal to be used for driving the vibration elements; and a transmission power source (3) that supplies electric power to the transmission circuits. The ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus further includes: a pulse ...
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Application Number:  20120020186

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventors:  Luo, Mingqiu; Jin, Shengwen

In various disclosed seismic imaging systems and methods, a fast target-oriented illumination calculation technique is employed to obtain a data volume or “matrix” of approximate illumination values. These illumination values enable an image matrix of “true reflectivity” values to be found. The illumination values are derived from Green's functions which, rather than being calculated and re-calculated on a shot-by-shot basis, are calculated in multi-shot groups and combined with a ...
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Application Number:  20120020185

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventors:  Kristiansen, Ottar; Svendsen, Morten; Welker, Kenneth E.; Hemmerle, Ulrich; Kragh, Julian Edward (Ed)

One embodiment of the invention concerns a probe that couples to a seismic vessel via a tow cable. When deploying probes from a seismic vessel that is towing source arrays and streamers, the probe and its tow cable can tangle with elements of the towed seismic spread. However, a cable guide may be used to lessen the risk for such entanglement by guiding the tow cable into the water at a distance removed from the seismic spread. Also, the probe may be steerable to steer the probe and tow cable ...
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Application Number:  20120020184

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventors:  Miller, Douglas; Wilson, Colin; Welker, Kenneth E.; Robertsson, Johan O. A.; Muyzert, Everhard; Kragh, Julian Edward (Ed)

A distributed optical acoustic sensor is provided along a structure in a body of water. The distributed optical acoustic sensor is used to detect acoustic waves generated by at least one acoustic source for positioning of at least one object in relation to the ...
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Application Number:  20120020183

Publication Date:  2012-01-26

Inventors:  LOI, DUKE; MUELLER, TIM; HANAFAN, KATHLEEN

A method and apparatus for packaging a Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) piezoelectric device into a SAW tagging device for use in a harsh environment is provided. An exemplary SAW tagging device comprises a SAW piezoelectric device within a header container. The header container is electrically connected to an antenna system that comprises an antenna substrate, a dielectric disk that may operate as an antenna reflector in combination with a metal base. The antenna system, antenna substrate, ...
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Application Number:  20120014222

Publication Date:  2012-01-19

Inventor:  NIESE, Frank

An electromagnetic ultrasound transducer is disclosed for receiving linearly polarized horizontal shear waves from an electrically conductive workpiece including a magnetizing unit, which provides a side facing the workpiece, along which a number n of permanent magnets are attached in at least two rows arranged next to one another in such a manner that the magnetic polarities of the magnetic poles which face the side alternate along a row periodically with a period length which corresponds to a ...
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Application Number:  20120014221

Publication Date:  2012-01-19

Inventors:  Bar-Cohen, Yoseph; Bao, Xiaoqi; Sherrit, Stewart; Badescu, Mircea; Allen, Phillip Grant

A monolithic ultrasonic horn where the horn, backing, and pre-stress structures are combined in a single monolithic piece is disclosed. Pre-stress is applied by external flexure structures. The provision of the external flexures has numerous advantages including the elimination of the need for a pre-stress bolt. The removal of the pre-stress bolt eliminates potential internal electric discharge points in the actuator. In addition, it reduces the chances of mechanical failure in the actuator ...
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Application Number:  20120014220

Publication Date:  2012-01-19

Inventor:  DePasqua, Louis

A method for pre-determining an underwater objects GPS position using a forward scan sonar unit linked to a boat trolling motor, magnetic compass and GPS receiver. This system determines the underwater objects GPS position using the objects distance, compass heading and a GPS receiver/sonar on a boat. This system will provide real time longitude and latitude positions of underwater objects seen with sonar at a distance from a boat, and will allow for precise autopilot navigation or fixed ...
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Application Number:  20120014219

Publication Date:  2012-01-19

Inventor:  Clark, Brian

A method of signal processing includes providing at least a first pressure sensor and a second pressure sensor spaced in a drilling system and using an algorithm to separate the downwardly propagating waves from the upwardly propagating waves. In one or more examples, an algorithm may include determining a velocity of pressure signals in a wellbore, time-shifting and stacking pressure signals from at least the first pressure sensor and the second pressure sensor to determine a downwardly ...
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Application Number:  20120014218

Publication Date:  2012-01-19

Inventors:  Houck, Richard T.; Neelamani, Ramesh

Techniques are disclosed for performing time-lapse monitor surveys with sparsely sampled monitor data sets (11). An accurate 3D representation (e.g., image) of a target area (e.g., a hydrocarbon bearing subsurface reservoir) is constructed using the sparsely sampled monitor data set (e.g., seismic data set). The sparsely sampled monitor data set may be so limited that it alone is insufficient to generate an accurate 3D representation of the target area, but accuracy is achieved through ...
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Application Number:  20120014217

Publication Date:  2012-01-19

Inventors:  Li, Dachang; Houck, Richard T.; Gist, Grant A.

Techniques are disclosed for performing time-lapse monitor surveys with sparsely sampled monitor data sets. An accurate 3D representation (e.g., image) of a target area (e.g., a hydrocarbon bearing subsurface reservoir) is constructed (12) using the sparsely sampled monitor data set (11). The sparsely sampled monitor data set may be so limited that it alone is insufficient to generate an accurate 3D representation of the target area, but accuracy is enabled through use of certain ...
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Application Number:  20120014216

Publication Date:  2012-01-19

Inventors:  Saenger, Erik; Steiner, Brian; Schmalholz, Stefan

A method and system for processing synchronous array seismic data includes acquiring synchronous passive seismic data from a plurality of sensors to obtain synchronized array measurements. A reverse-time data process is applied to the synchronized array measurements to obtain a plurality of dynamic particle parameters associated with subsurface locations. These dynamic particle parameters are stored in a form for display. Maximum values of the dynamic particle parameters may be interpreted as ...
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Application Number:  20120014215

Publication Date:  2012-01-19

Inventors:  Saenger, Erik; Steiner, Brian; Schmalholz, Stefan

A method and system for processing synchronous array seismic data includes acquiring synchronous passive seismic data from a plurality of sensors to obtain synchronized array measurements. A reverse-time data process is applied to the synchronized array measurements to obtain a plurality of dynamic particle parameters associated with subsurface locations. These dynamic particle parameters are stored in a form for display. Maximum values of the dynamic particle parameters may be interpreted as ...
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Application Number:  20120014214

Publication Date:  2012-01-19

Inventors:  Steiner, Brian; Artman, Brad; Saenger, Erik; Witten, Benjamin

A method and system for processing synchronous array seismic data includes acquiring synchronous passive seismic data from a plurality of sensors to obtain synchronized array measurements. A reverse-time data propagation process is applied to the synchronized array measurements to obtain a plurality of dynamic particle parameters associated with subsurface locations. Imaging conditions are applied to the dynamic particle parameters to obtain image values associated with subsurface energy source ...
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Application Number:  20120014213

Publication Date:  2012-01-19

Inventors:  Eick, Peter M.; Brewer, Joel D.; Janiszewski, Frank D.

The invention relates to continuously or near continuously acquiring seismic data where at least one pulse-type source is fired in a distinctive sequence to create a series of pulses and to create a continuous or near continuous rumble. In a preferred embodiment, a number of pulse-type seismic sources are arranged in an array and are fired in a distinctive loop of composite pulses where the returning wavefield is source separable based on the distinctive composite pulses. Firing the pulse-type ...
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Application Number:  20120014212

Publication Date:  2012-01-19

Inventors:  Eick, Peter M.; Brewer, Joel D.; Mosher, Charles C.; Janiszewski, Frank D.

The invention relates to continuously or near continuously acquiring seismic data where at least one pulse-type source is fired in a distinctive sequence to create a series of pulses and to create a continuous or near continuous rumble. In a preferred embodiment, a number of pulse-type seismic sources are arranged in an array and are fired in a distinctive loop of composite pulses where the returning wavefield is source separable based on the distinctive composite pulses. Firing the pulse-type ...
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Application Number:  20120014211

Publication Date:  2012-01-19

Inventors:  SAMSON, Etienne M.; MAIDA, JR., John L.; WARPINSKI, Norman; GRIFFIN, Lawrence G.

Objects are monitored in a subterranean well. A well system can include at least one object having a transmitter, and at least one sensing device which monitors displacement of the object along a wellbore. A method of monitoring at least one object in a subterranean well can include positioning at least one sensing device in a wellbore of the well, and then displacing the object through the wellbore, the sensing device monitoring the object as it displaces through the ...
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Application Number:  20120013498

Publication Date:  2012-01-19

Inventors:  Hilliard, Lawrence M.; Deshpande, Manohar

An expandable and reconfigurable instrument node includes a feature detection means and a data processing portion in communication with the feature detection means, the data processing portion configured and disposed to process feature information. The instrument node further includes a phase locked loop (PLL) oscillator in communication with the data processing portion, the PLL oscillator configured and disposed to provide PLL information to the processing portion. The instrument node further ...
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