Patents by Inventor Eric Bouts

Eric Bouts has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Processing seismic data
    Patent number: 6473697
    Abstract: A method of processing seismic data comprising obtaining a seismic data volume covering a predetermined volume of earth; determining for each voxel in the seismic data volume the local orientation of the seismic data; determining for each voxel whether there is an edge in its neighborhood; and carrying out a smoothing operation on each voxel in the seismic data volume, wherein the direction of the smoothing operation is the local orientation of the data and wherein the smoothing operation does not go over the edge, to obtain a processed seismic data volume in which the quantity assigned to each voxel in the processed data volume is the result obtained by carrying out the smoothing operation in that voxel in the seismic data volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2002
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Eric Bouts, Richard Mapes Dalley, Gijsbert Christiaan Fehmers, Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Hocker
  • Processing seismic data
    Publication number: 20020022930
    Abstract: A method of processing seismic data comprising obtaining a seismic data volume covering a predetermined volume of earth; determining for each voxel in the seismic data volume the local orientation of the seismic data; determining for each voxel whether there is an edge in its neighborhood; and carrying out a smoothing operation on each voxel in the seismic data volume, wherein the direction of the smoothing operation is the local orientation of the data and wherein the smoothing operation does not go over the edge, to obtain a processed seismic data volume in which the quantity assigned to each voxel in the processed data volume is the result obtained by carrying out the smoothing operation in that voxel in the seismic data volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2001
    Publication date: February 21, 2002
    Inventors: Eric Bouts, Richard Mapes Dalley, Gijsbert Christiaan Fehmers, Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Hocker