Patents by Inventor Thomas Barnard

Thomas Barnard 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).

  • Subarray matching beamformer apparatus and method
    Publication number: 20060241914
    Abstract: A method of beam forming an array (60), by computer processing a cross covariance (30), of the reference sub array seismic signal data signal (120), by having an unknown shape comprising receiving acoustic signals (120), via the aray (100), and computing the date (20) and segmenting the array into an initial segment of a known shape and at least a second segment (44), and beam forming the initial segment to provide a beam formed output (60), and using the beam formed output to obtain weights (24), for the second segment of the array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2001
    Publication date: October 26, 2006
    Inventors: Thomas Barnard, Manuel Fernandez