http://www.freshpatents.com/Communications-electrical--acoustic-wave-systems-and-devices-dtnewntc367.php USPTO Class 367 - Communications, electrical: acoustic wave systems and devices en-us Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:31:59 -0800 1000 Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 141 31 http://www.freshpatents.com/index.php?rss=true http://www.freshpatents.com/images/freshpatentsnav_rss.gif http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120026828.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:31:59 -0800 Control device (10, 50) for controlling the position of an instrumented cable towed in water, such as a marine seismic streamer, and/or an instrumented towed cable array (streamer array) with the possibility of controlling the individual instrumented cables both with in shape and position in relation to other instrumented cables... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120026829.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:31:59 -0800 Three-axis velocity data, obtained along with pressure data in a marine seismic survey, are rotated to a ray direction. Plane wave decomposition is applied in the ray direction to the rotated velocity data. The pressure data and the velocity data are combined to generate at least one of up-going and... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120026830.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:31:59 -0800 Device and method for processing 4-dimensional (4-D) seismic traces. The method includes receiving at least two vintages of seismic traces recorded by seismic receivers for a same subsurface area, wherein said seismic receivers are located at the ocean floor; applying up-down deconvolution to each of said vintages of seismic traces... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120026831.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:31:59 -0800 A logging system for measuring anisotrophic properties of the materials penetrated by a borehole. A downhole or “logging tool” element of the system comprises a source section that comprises either a unipole or a dipole acoustic source. The receiver section comprises a plurality of receiver stations disposed at different axial... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120026832.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:31:59 -0800 A method for structural dip removal. The method includes converting a seismic volume to a depth domain, extracting seismic dips from the seismic volume in the depth domain along a borehole trajectory, analyzing a borehole using the seismic dips to obtain structural dip data, and in response to determining that... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120026833.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:31:59 -0800 Computing device and method for processing seismic traces to produce an image of a subsurface area. The method includes receiving a series of seismic traces related to the subsurface area and recorded by one or more seismic receivers, wherein the one or more seismic sources are originally generated by a... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120026834.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:31:59 -0800 A sensor assembly has first sensors spaced apart along a first direction, and second sensors oriented in a second direction generally orthogonal to the first direction. Differencing of outputs of the first sensors is performed, and differencing of outputs of the second sensors is performed. A signal output is produced... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120026835.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:31:59 -0800 There are provided a subsurface imaging apparatus and method for modeling a subsurface structure by solving a wavefield equation by waveform inversion. A virtual source that generates an observed wavefield and is distributed over grid points of the subsurface is obtained by applying a least-square method to an equation including... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120026836.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:31:59 -0800 A timer switch which is activated by the proximity of an object situated in a given distance range and is present there for a given time period.... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120026837.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:31:59 -0800 In accordance with some embodiments of the present disclosure, a process for determining a direction vector of a sound source is described. The process may be implemented to detect, by a first sound sensor, a first sound pressure of a sound wave propagated from the sound source, and detect, by... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120026838.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:31:59 -0800 An audio data processing system is a client-server system including an audio data communication device and an audio data processing device which are linked together via a communication network. The audio data communication device includes an acoustic generator, a control device, a transmitter and a receiver in connection with first... http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20120202ptan20120026839.php Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:31:59 -0800 A pest-control device that repels pests with sound is illustrated and described. The pest-control device can, for example, be plugged into a standard wall socket. Sound-transmission openings in the pest-control device can be positioned to selectively direct sound sideways along the wall including the socket. This can increase the effectiveness...