Patents Assigned to Seaway Technologies, Inc.
  • Patent number: 5349774
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for using the primordial fear of dolphin of killer whales to separate dolphin from tuna. The sound of killer whale is recorded, digitized, edited and enhanced to produce digitally synthesized killer whale sounds. These digitally synthesized sounds of one or more feeding killer whale is played under water and in the vicinity of a mixed school of dolphin and tuna and as the dolphin leave said vicinity, catching the tuna in nets. A playback unit is selectively triggered on and off from a remote location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1994
    Assignee: Seaway Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Jorge M. Parra
  • Patent number: 5313556
    Abstract: The identity of an individual (known or unknown) is determined by a sonic profile of sounds issued through his oral-nasal passages. The sounds are converted to digital electrical signals and produce a three domain format of frequency, amplitude and time samples to produce an array of peaks and valleys constituting the sonic profile of an individual. A source or library of a sonic profiles in the same format of a known individual have the interrelationship including relative positions of said peaks and valleys of said sonic profile of the known individual with that of said unknown individual compared and a utilization signal is provided upon a detecting or non-detecting a correlation between said sonic profiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1994
    Assignee: Seaway Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Jorge M. Parra