Patents by Inventor Robert G. McBeath

Robert G. McBeath 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).

  • Interpolation of aliased seismic traces
    Patent number: 5235556
    Abstract: The present invention provides method of interpolating spatially aliased seismic data. This method produces high resolution interpolated data based on a locally planar model of reflection events using a two dimensional power diversity slant stack process that transforms the data from the t-x-y domain to t-xslope-yslope domain. The present invention further provides an improved technique for the 3D interpolation of aliased events and is applicable to the interpolation of 2D seismic data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1993
    Assignee: Halliburton Geophysical Services Inc.
    Inventors: David J. Monk, Robert G. McBeath, Cameron B. Wason
  • Noise attenuation method
    Patent number: 5138583
    Abstract: A method for attenuating coherent and incoherent noise in seismic signal data is provided. Seismic signal data is transformed from a time-space domain using a Radon-transform domain. In the Radon-transform domain, coherent noise is attenuated by muting and incoherent noise is attenuated by diversity stacking. Data remaining in the Radon-transform domain in transformed back to the time-space domain by an inverse Radon transform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1992
    Assignee: Halliburton Geophysical Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Cameron B. Wason, David J. Monk, Robert G. McBeath