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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 1995
Filed:
Oct. 23, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Louis M Houston, Houston, TX (US);
John R Potter, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
Exxon Production Research Company, Houston, TX (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364421 ; 367124 ; 367126 ; 367 40 ;
Abstract
A method for suppressing or removing coherent noise from seismic or borehole data is disclosed. The method requires horizontal alignment of the traces, comparison of the amplitude, phase and/or shape of neighboring traces, and subtraction of traces from neighboring traces only where the local correlation is high.