Patents by Inventor Ian Moore

Ian Moore 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).

  • Publication number: 20070274153
    Abstract: 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 azimuth; convolving the selected pairs of input traces to generate a plurality of convolutions; and applying a three dimensional operator to the convolutions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2004
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicant: WESTERNGECO, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Richard Bisley, Ian Moore
  • Publication number: 20070268780
    Abstract: Various technologies for a method for processing seismic data. In one implementation, the method includes cross-correlating seismic traces having midpoint locations, offsets and azimuths within a predetermined range but from different sequences; and selecting a peak on each cross-correlation. Each peak corresponds to a difference in travel times between two seismic traces that were cross-correlated. The method further includes converting the difference in travel times between the two seismic traces to a difference in water velocities between a pair of sequences associated with the two seismic traces at a spatial location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2006
    Publication date: November 22, 2007
    Inventor: Ian Moore
  • Patent number: 7257492
    Abstract: A method is for use in seismic data processing includes improving the continuity of the primary events in an original seismic dataset to create a continuous, seismic dataset; predicting at least the first order multiples of the original seismic dataset from the continuous seismic dataset; deterministically matching the predicted multiples and one of the original seismic dataset or the continuous seismic dataset; and taking the difference between the matched datasets. In other aspects, an apparatus may include a computer programmed to perform to such a method and by which the seismic data may be processed. The apparatus may also include a program storage medium encoded with instructions that, when executed by a computing device, will perform the method. The data upon which the method operates may be acquired in either a land or marine survey and may be two-dimensional, three-dimensional, or four-dimensional.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2007
    Assignee: WesternGeco L.L.
    Inventor: Ian Moore
  • Publication number: 20070073488
    Abstract: A method is for use in seismic data processing includes improving the continuity of the primary events in an original seismic dataset to create a continuous, seismic dataset; predicting at least the first order multiples of the original seismic dataset from the continuous seismic dataset; deterministically matching the predicted multiples and one of the original seismic dataset or the continuous seismic dataset; and taking the difference between the matched datasets. In other aspects, an apparatus may include a computer programmed to perform to such a method and by which the seismic data may be processed. The apparatus may also include a program storage medium encoded with instructions that, when executed by a computing device, will perform the method. The data upon which the method operates may be acquired in either a land or marine survey and may be two-dimensional, three-dimensional, or four-dimensional.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2005
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Inventor: Ian Moore
  • Publication number: 20070064530
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for processing a record of seismic traces. The method includes receiving the record of seismic traces in a time-offset domain, transforming the record of seismic traces to a tau-p domain, applying a zero offset inverse Q algorithm to the record of seismic traces in the tau-p domain, and transforming the record of seismic traces back to the time-offset domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2005
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Inventor: Ian Moore
  • Patent number: 7181347
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for predicting surface multiples, which includes (a) selecting a target subsurface line (SSL); (b) selecting an input SSL within an aperture of the target SSL; (c) selecting a point on a line twice the distance between the input SSL and the target SSL, the point corresponding to a potential downward reflection point of the surface multiples for a trace; (d) generating a potential surface multiple for the trace corresponding to the point; (e) repeating steps (c) through (d) for each point on the line to generate an inline of potential surface multiples corresponding to each point on the line; (f) repeating steps (b) through (e) for each input SSL within the aperture of the target SSL to generate potential surface multiples for the trace corresponding to each input SSL within the aperture; and (g) adding the potential surface multiples to generate a surface multiple for the trace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2007
    Assignee: Westerngeco, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Ian Moore
  • Publication number: 20070032954
    Abstract: Method for computing one or more timing errors that occur in one or more multiples predicted by a multiple prediction algorithm. The method includes the steps of generating one or more actual three-dimensional primary travel times and one or more actual three-dimensional multiple travel times, applying the multiple prediction algorithm to the actual three-dimensional primary travel times to generate one or more travel times for the multiples predicted by the multiple prediction algorithm, and subtracting the actual three-dimensional multiple travel times from the travel times for the multiples predicted by the multiple prediction algorithm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2003
    Publication date: February 8, 2007
    Applicant: WESTERNGECO, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Ian Moore, Clement Kostov, Robert Bloor, William Dragoset
  • Publication number: 20050065758
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for predicting a plurality of surface multiples for a plurality of traces in a record of seismic data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2003
    Publication date: March 24, 2005
    Inventor: Ian Moore
  • Patent number: 6832161
    Abstract: A method for attenuating water layer multiples from a gather of seismic data traces. The method includes predicting a plurality of receiver side water layer multiples in the gather of seismic data traces using a convolutional operator derived from a water layer model, adaptively subtracting the receiver side water layer multiples from the gather of seismic data traces, predicting a plurality of source side water layer multiples using the convolutional operator derived from the water layer model, and adaptively subtracting the receiver side water layer multiples and the source side water layer multiples from the gather of seismic data traces to generate a plurality of primaries in the gather of seismic data traces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2004
    Assignee: WesternGeco, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Ian Moore
  • Patent number: 6636810
    Abstract: A method and computer system of processing seismic data is presented. A high-resolution Radon transform is defined for use on seismic data. The high-resolution Radon transform is regularized using a semblance measure of the seismic data. The seismic data is processed using the high-resolution Radon transform to enhance desirable features of the seismic data. A tangible representation of the processed seismic data is presented. The semblance measure of the seismic can include a semblance measure along a dimension of the seismic data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2003
    Assignee: WesternGeco, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Ian Moore, Clement Kostov, David Yingst
  • Patent number: D456272
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: The Coca-Cola Company
    Inventors: F. Fred Sadeghi, Roger Ian Moore, Jeffrey A. Mayers
  • Patent number: D457437
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
    Assignee: The Coca-Cola Company
    Inventors: F. Fred Sadeghi, Roger Ian Moore, Jeffrey A. Mayers
  • Patent number: D458139
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignee: The Coca-Cola Company
    Inventors: Roger Ian Moore, Fred F. Sadeghi
  • Patent number: D458145
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignee: The Coca-Cola Company
    Inventors: F. Fred Sadeghi, Roger Ian Moore, Jeffrey A. Mayers
  • Patent number: D458146
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignee: The Coca-Cola Company
    Inventors: F. Fred Sadeghi, Roger Ian Moore, Jeffrey A. Mayers
  • Patent number: D458147
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignee: The Coca-Cola Company
    Inventors: F. Fred Sadeghi, Roger Ian Moore, Jeffrey A. Mayers
  • Patent number: D458148
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignee: The Coca-Cola Company
    Inventors: F. Fred Sadeghi, Roger Ian Moore, Jeffrey A. Mayers
  • Patent number: D460695
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2002
    Assignee: The Coca-Cola Company
    Inventors: F. Fred Sadeghi, Roger Ian Moore, Jeffrey A. Mayers
  • Patent number: D468213
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Assignee: The Coca-Cola Company
    Inventors: Roger Ian Moore, F. Fred Sadeghi
  • Patent number: D545680
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: The Coca-Cola Company
    Inventors: Jae Ho Cha, Scott C. Biondich, Randall S. Brown, Roger Ian Moore, Christopher James Bowers