Patents by Inventor Phil Dean Anno

Phil Dean Anno 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: 9158016
    Abstract: A process for overcoming aliasing using a minimum weighted norm interpolation (MWNI) technique may include computing an initial, regularly interpolated model with no data gaps and computing a plurality of initial spectral weights using the initial, regularly interpolated model. The initial, regularly interpolated model is used to compute the spectral weights as initial constraints in a least-squares solution methodology. The initial spectral weights are used as initial constraints in a constrained minimum weighted norm interpolation data reconstruction. The process may further include converting the initial, regularly interpolated model into a frequency domain and computing unknown spectral weights from frequency data at each frequency slice of the initial, regularly interpolated model using Fourier transform. The process results in reducing aliasing artifacts and improving data regularization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: ConocoPhillips Company
    Inventors: Stephen KamLing Chiu, Phil Dean Anno
  • Publication number: 20130286041
    Abstract: A process for overcoming aliasing using a minimum weighted norm interpolation (MWNI) technique may include computing an initial, regularly interpolated model with no data gaps and computing a plurality of initial spectral weights using the initial, regularly interpolated model. The initial, regularly interpolated model is used to compute the spectral weights as initial constraints in a least-squares solution methodology. The initial spectral weights are used as initial constraints in a constrained minimum weighted norm interpolation data reconstruction. The process may further include converting the initial, regularly interpolated model into a frequency domain and computing unknown spectral weights from frequency data at each frequency slice of the initial, regularly interpolated model using Fourier transform. The process results in reducing aliasing artifacts and improving data regularization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY
    Inventors: Stephen KamLing CHIU, Phil Dean ANNO
  • Patent number: 7636275
    Abstract: A method and system of seismic data processing includes acquiring first and second prestack seismic datasets wherein the seismic datasets have a time-lapse relationship. The first prestack seismic dataset is inverted to determine a first source wavelet data set and a first reflectivity parameters data set. A perturbation data set is obtained by simultaneously minimizing an Lp-Norm between a portion of the first reflectivity parameters data set and reflectivity parameters for the second data set, an Lp-Norm between the first source wavelet data set and a source wavelet for the second data set and an Lp-Norm for data misfit between the first prestack seismic data set and the second prestack seismic data set. The perturbation dataset may be inverted for petrophysical parameters and for determining time-lapse changes in a reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2009
    Inventors: Phil Dean Anno, Partha Sarathi Routh
  • Publication number: 20080189043
    Abstract: A method and system of seismic data processing includes acquiring first and second prestack seismic datasets wherein the seismic datasets have a time-lapse relationship. The first prestack seismic dataset is inverted to determine a first source wavelet data set and a first reflectivity parameters data set. A perturbation data set is obtained by simultaneously minimizing an Lp-Norm between a portion of the first reflectivity parameters data set and reflectivity parameters for the second data set, an Lp-Norm between the first source wavelet data set and a source wavelet for the second data set and an Lp-Norm for data misfit between the first prestack seismic data set and the second prestack seismic data set. The perturbation dataset may be inverted for petrophysical parameters and for determining time-lapse changes in a reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2007
    Publication date: August 7, 2008
    Applicant: ConocoPhillips Company
    Inventors: Phil Dean Anno, Partha Sarathi Routh