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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 1990

Filed:

Feb. 05, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:

Stanley J Laster, Dallas, TX (US);

Robert A Meek, Sanger, TX (US);

Thomas E Shirley, Richardson, TX (US);

Assignee:

Mobil Oil Corporation, New York, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V / ; G01V / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
367 73 ; 367 38 ; 364421 ;
Abstract

A seismic record is enhanced through trace restoration and extrapolation. A set of traces surrounding a missing trace or adjacent an edge of the seismic record are transformed into the frequency domain using a fast Fourier transform. Each frequency of the resultant x-f representation a series of complex numbers, one corresponding to each trace, is selected. Autoregressive model coefficients are estimated for this complex series using a recursive least squares method. A complex number is estimated for trace restoration and extrapolation from the series of complex numbers and autoregressive coefficients. After all frequency components are thus processed restored or extrapolated traces are obtained by an inverse Fourier transform.


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