Patents by Inventor Michel Albert Schonewille

Michel Albert Schonewille 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: 7751277
    Abstract: An estimated frequency-wavenumber spectrum is generated by applying a first Anti-leakage Fourier transform method to unaliased frequency components in temporal-transformed seismic data and applying a second Anti-leakage Fourier transform method to aliased frequency components in the temporal-transformed seismic data. The second Anti-leakage Fourier transform method applies an absolute frequency-wavenumber spectrum extrapolated from unaliased frequencies to aliased frequencies to weight frequency-wavenumber components of the aliased frequencies. An inverse temporal and spatial Fourier transform is applied to the estimated frequency-wavenumber spectrum, generating trace interpolation of the seismic data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: PGS Geophysical AS
    Inventor: Michel Albert Schonewille
  • Publication number: 20090231956
    Abstract: An estimated frequency-wavenumber spectrum is generated by applying a first Anti-leakage Fourier transform method to aliased frequency components in temporal-transformed seismic data and applying a second Anti-leakage Fourier transform method to unaliased frequency components in the temporal-transformed seismic data. The second Anti-leakage Fourier transform method applies an absolute frequency-wavenumber spectrum extrapolated from unaliased frequencies to aliased frequencies to weight frequency-wavenumber components of the aliased frequencies. An inverse temporal and spatial Fourier transform is applied to the estimated frequency-wavenumber spectrum, generating trace interpolation of the seismic data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2008
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Inventor: Michel Albert Schonewille
  • Patent number: 6889142
    Abstract: A seismic data set is processed by applying a transform to the seismic data set that corrects for time shifts in the seismic data set resulting from azimuthal variation. Alternatively, a seismic data set is sorted to common offset gathers. Then, the following steps are applied to each common offset gather: A transform is applied to the common offset gather that corrects for time shifts in the common offset gather resulting from azimuthal variation. The transformed common offset gather is inverse transformed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: PGS Exploration (UK) Limited
    Inventor: Michel Albert Schonewille
  • Publication number: 20040243312
    Abstract: A seismic data set is processed by applying a transform to the seismic data set that corrects for time shifts in the seismic data set resulting from azimuthal variation. Alternatively, a seismic data set is sorted to common offset gathers. Then, the following steps are applied to each common offset gather: A transform is applied to the common offset gather that corrects for time shifts in the common offset gather resulting from azimuthal variation. The transformed common offset gather is inverse transformed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2003
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Inventor: Michel Albert Schonewille
  • Patent number: 6763304
    Abstract: A seismic data set is processed by selecting a set of gathers in the seismic data set. A frequency independent constraint matrix is calculated in a first gather. A model solution in at least one second gather is calculated by using the constraint matrix in a high-resolution Radon transform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2004
    Assignee: PGS Americas, Inc.
    Inventor: Michel Albert Schonewille
  • Publication number: 20030220744
    Abstract: A seismic data set is processed by selecting a set of gathers in the seismic data set. A frequency-dependent constraint matrix is calculated in a first gather. A model solution in at least one second gather is calculated by using the constraint matrix in a high-resolution Radon transform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2002
    Publication date: November 27, 2003
    Inventor: Michel Albert Schonewille