Patents by Inventor Kurt Eggenberger

Kurt Eggenberger 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).

  • Patent number: 11346969
    Abstract: A simultaneous sources seismic acquisition method is described that introduces notch diversity to improve separating the unknown contributions of one or more sources from a commonly acquired set of wavefield signals while still allowing for optimal reconstruction properties in certain diamond-shaped regions. In particular, notch diversity is obtained by heteroscale encoding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: APPARITION GEOSERVICES GMBH
    Inventors: Fredrik Andersson, Dirk-Jan Van Manen, Kurt Eggenberger, Johan Robertsson
  • Patent number: 11280925
    Abstract: A method for separating the unknown contributions of two or more sources from a commonly acquired set of wavefield signals representing a wavefield where the contributions from different sources are both encoded by means of the principles of signal apparition and as well as by means of different source encoding techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: APPARITION GEOSERVICES GMBH
    Inventors: Johan Robertsson, Kurt Eggenberger, Dirk-Jan Van Manen, Fredrik Andersson
  • Patent number: 11029432
    Abstract: Methods are described for separating the unknown contributions of two or more sources from a commonly acquired aliased wave field signals including the determination of models with reduced support in the frequency-wavenumber domain which reconstruct the wave fields of independently-activated sources after a coordinate-transform of the acquired wave field data and/or in a coordinate-transformed domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: SEISMIC APPARITION GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk-Jan Van Manen, Fredrik Andersson, Johan Robertsson, Kurt Eggenberger
  • Patent number: 11002870
    Abstract: A method is described for removing the surface ghost from and/or separating wave field data and/or for estimating redatuming operators of the wave field data by effective use of a transform that that relies on the non-uniform distribution of distances with respect to a reference surface or of tuned-source radiation directions of sources and or the non-uniform distribution of receivers with respect to a reference surface to partition or map the wave field from at least two different cones in the transformed domain and using the contribution of sources and or receivers inside at least one of the at least two different cones to estimate a first wave field of interest, a second separated or ghost wave field and/or redatuming operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: SEISMIC APPARITION GmbH
    Inventors: Johan Robertsson, Dirk-Jan Van Manen, Fredrik Andersson, Kurt Eggenberger
  • Patent number: 10690793
    Abstract: Methods are described for separating the unknown contributions of two or more sources from a commonly acquired set of wavefield signals representing a wavefield where the sources traverse general, related activation lines or grids and are synchronously activated while varying at least one parameter between the sources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: SEISMIC APPARITION GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk-Jan Van Manen, Fredrik Andersson, Johan Robertsson, Kurt Eggenberger
  • Publication number: 20200174147
    Abstract: Methods are described for separating the unknown contributions of two or more sources from a commonly acquired set of wavefield signals representing a wavefield where the sources are laterally located relatively close to each other and fire relatively close in time, and where the contributions from different sources are separated using different source encoding techniques in different parts of a frequency band of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: SEISMIC APPARITION GmbH
    Inventors: Johan ROBERTSSON, Robin Walker, Fredrik Andersson, Dirk-Jan Van Manen, Kurt Eggenberger
  • Publication number: 20200025961
    Abstract: A method for separating the unknown contributions of two or more sources from a commonly acquired set of wavefield signals representing a wavefield where the contributions from different sources are both encoded by means of the principles of signal apparition and as well as by means of different source encoding techniques.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: SEISMIC APPARITION GmbH
    Inventors: Johan ROBERTSSON, Kurt EGGENBERGER, Dirk-Jan VAN MANEN, Fredrik ANDERSSON
  • Publication number: 20200025959
    Abstract: A simultaneous sources seismic acquisition method is described that introduces notch diversity to improve separating the unknown contributions of one or more sources from a commonly acquired set of wavefield signals while still allowing for optimal reconstruction properties in certain diamond-shaped regions. In particular, notch diversity is obtained by heteroscale encoding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: SEISMIC APPARITION GmbH
    Inventors: Fredrik ANDERSSON, Dirk-Jan VAN MANEN, Kurt EGGENBERGER, Johan ROBERTSSON
  • Publication number: 20190331816
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for separating the unknown contributions of one or more sources from a commonly acquired set of wavefield signals using analytic properties of complex and hypercomplex representations. In particular, the methods are designed to treat the case where the wavefield consists of seismic sources and of sets of aliased recorded and/or aliased processed seismic signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Applicant: SEISMIC APPARITION GmbH
    Inventors: Fredrik Andersson, Dirk-Jan Van Manen, Johan Robertsson, Jens Wittsten, Kurt Eggenberger
  • Publication number: 20190079205
    Abstract: Methods are described for separating the unknown contributions of two or more sources from a commonly acquired set of wavefield signals representing a wavefield where the sources traverse general, related activation lines or grids and are synchronously activated while varying at least one parameter between the sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Applicant: SEISMIC APPARITION GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk-Jan Van Manen, Fredrik Andersson, Johan Robertsson, Kurt Eggenberger
  • Publication number: 20190072686
    Abstract: Methods are described for separating the unknown contributions of two or more sources from a commonly acquired aliased wave field signals including the determination of models with reduced support in the frequency-wavenumber domain which reconstruct the wave fields of independently-activated sources after a coordinate-transform of the acquired wave field data and/or in a coordinate-transformed domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: SEISMIC APPARITION GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk-Jan VAN MANEN, Fredrik ANDERSSON, Johan ROBERTSSON, Kurt EGGENBERGER
  • Publication number: 20190049609
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for separating the unknown contributions of two or more sources from a commonly acquired wave field including the determination of a wavenumber dependent model which reconstructs the wave field of the sources independently below a frequency set by the slowest physical propagation velocity, and applying an inversion based on the model to the commonly acquired wave field to separate the contributions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: SEISMIC APPARITION GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk-Jan VAN MANEN, Fredrik ANDERSSON, Johan ROBERTSSON, Kurt EGGENBERGER
  • Publication number: 20190018157
    Abstract: A method is described for removing the surface ghost from and/or separating wave field data and/or for estimating redatuming operators of the wave field data by effective use of a transform that that relies on the non-uniform distribution of distances with respect to a reference surface or of tuned-source radiation directions of sources and or the non-uniform distribution of receivers with respect to a reference surface to partition or map the wave field from at least two different cones in the transformed domain and using the contribution of sources and or receivers inside at least one of the at least two different cones to estimate a first wave field of interest, a second separated or ghost wave field and/or redatuming operator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Applicant: SEISMIC APPARITION GmbH
    Inventors: Johan ROBERTSSON, Dirk-Jan Van Manen, Fredrik Andersson, Kurt Eggenberger
  • Patent number: 9541659
    Abstract: A method for removing noise from a three-dimensional representation of seismic data. The method includes receiving seismic data acquired in a seismic survey. The method may organize the acquired seismic data into a three-dimensional representation of the acquired seismic data. The method may then remove a noise from the three-dimensional representation of the acquired seismic data based on at least one criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: WESTERNGECO L.L.C.
    Inventors: Massimiliano Vassallo, Kurt Eggenberger, Dirk-Jan Van Manen, Ali Özbek
  • Patent number: 9043155
    Abstract: A technique includes processing seismic data indicative of samples of at least one measured seismic signal in a processor-based machine to, in an iterative process, determine basis functions, which represent a constructed seismic signal. The technique includes in each iteration of the iterative process, selecting another basis function of the plurality of basis functions. The selecting includes based at least in part on the samples and a current version of the constructed seismic signal, determining a cost function; and interpreting the cost function based at least in part on a predicted energy distribution of the constructed seismic signal to select the basis function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: WESTERNGECO L.L.C.
    Inventors: Massimiliano Vassallo, Ali Özbek, Dirk-Jan Van Manen, Anthony D. Curtis, Kurt Eggenberger
  • Publication number: 20150134259
    Abstract: A technique includes processing seismic data indicative of samples of at least one measured seismic signal in a processor-based machine to determine basis functions that represent a constructed seismic signal based at least in part on a matching pursuit-based technique. The technique further includes basing the determination of the basis functions at least in part on a predicted energy distribution of the constructed seismic signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Massimiliano Vassallo, Ali Ozbek, Dirk-Jan van Manen, Anthony D. Curtis, Kurt Eggenberger
  • Publication number: 20140200854
    Abstract: Modular workflows for determining acquisition geometry and efficiency using 3D deghosting and wavefield reconstruction methods enabled by multicomponent seismic information are disclosed, which may be performed as methods. In some embodiments, such methods may be performed on computing systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: WESTERNGECO L.L.C.
    Inventors: KURT EGGENBERGER, PHILIP A. F. CHRISTIE, MASSIMILIANO VASSALLO, DIRK-JAN VAN MANEN
  • Publication number: 20130128696
    Abstract: A method for removing noise from a three-dimensional representation of seismic data. The method includes receiving seismic data acquired in a seismic survey. The method may organize the acquired seismic data into a three-dimensional representation of the acquired seismic data. The method may then remove a noise from the three-dimensional representation of the acquired seismic data based on at least one criterion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: WESTERNGECO L.L.C.
    Inventors: MASSIMILIANO VASSALLO, KURT EGGENBERGER, DIRK-JAN VAN MANEN, ALI ÖZBEK
  • Publication number: 20120089337
    Abstract: A technique includes processing seismic data indicative of samples of at least one measured seismic signal in a processor-based machine to, in an iterative process, determine basis functions, which represent a constructed seismic signal. The technique includes in each iteration of the iterative process, selecting another basis function of the plurality of basis functions. The selecting includes based at least in part on the samples and a current version of the constructed seismic signal, determining a cost function; and interpreting the cost function based at least in part on a predicted energy distribution of the constructed seismic signal to select the basis function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Inventors: Massimiliano Vassallo, Ali Özbek, Dirk-Jan Van Manen, Anthony D. Curtis, Kurt Eggenberger