Communications, electrical: acoustic wave systems and devices inventions 10/06

20060239117 - Seismic streamer system and method: A seismic streamer system for acquiring seismic data includes a plurality of first cable sections each employing a first sensor configuration therein, and at least one second cable section operatively connected to one or more of the first cable sections and employing a second sensor configuration therein. In various embodiments...

20060239118 - Method system and program storage device for synchronizing displays relative to a point in time: A method of determining a particular value on a display, comprises the steps of: moving a time log relative to a time line until the time line identifies a selected time on the time log; moving a plurality of values on the display in synchronism with the moving of the...

20060239119 - Multiple projectors for increased resolution receive beam processing of echoing sonars and radars: An echoing system includes at least two projectors: a first projector is configured to transmit a first radio frequency signal of a first frequency and a second projector configured to transmit a second radio frequency signal of a second frequency. A plurality of receivers receive reflected radio frequency signals. A...

20060239120 - Flash event detection with acoustic verification: A system for identifying flash events including an optical imaging module with one or more optical imaging array, the optical imaging module configured for monitoring a region of interest to identify a tentative flash event. The system further includes a ranging module associated with the optical imaging module and configured...

20060239121 - Method, system, and medium for estimating location using ultrasonic waves: Provided are a method, system, and medium for estimating a location of a remote controller using ultrasonic waves. The method includes receiving a plurality of signals transmitted from the remote controller, measuring time delays between an infrared signal and ultrasonic signals included in each of the received signals, estimating the...

20060239122 - Apparatus, systems and methods for determining position of marine seismic acoustic receivers: Apparatus, systems and methods for calculating position of marine seismic acoustic receivers, and for estimating sound velocity profile of a fluid, are disclosed. One position calculation system includes a vessel, two or more vessel hull-mounted transmitters, a plurality of acoustic receivers on a cable being deployed from the vessel into...

20060233045 - Apparatus for effecting acoustic surveillance of a space beyond a barrier: An apparatus for effecting acoustic surveillance of a space beyond a barrier includes: (a) a plurality of acoustic sensor devices; (b) a combining unit coupled with the plurality of acoustic sensor devices; and (c) a display unit coupled with the combining unit. The combining unit receives a respective sensor signal...

20060233046 - Apparatus for effecting surveillance of a space beyond a barrier: An apparatus for effecting surveillance of a space beyond a barrier includes: (a) a plurality of sensor devices; (b) a combining unit coupled with the plurality of sensor devices; and (c) a display unit coupled with the combining unit. The combining unit receives a respective sensor signal from each respective...

20060233047 - Radial profiling of slowness: methods and apparatus for near-wellbore alteration estimation: Methods and apparatus facilitating radial profiling of acoustic slowness of a formation traversed by a borehole are disclosed. According to some aspects of the invention, a radial slowness profile is imaged, including an image of altered region slowness....

20060233048 - Multimode acoustic imaging in cased wells: A well casing is insonified with a first acoustic wave in a first mode that may be any mode of a set including: extensional mode, thickness mode, flexural mode. A first echo is received at a first acoustic transducer for receiving, a first signal is produced and a first measurement...

20060233049 - Repelling pests: The invention relates to a pest repelling apparatus which is installable in a vehicle (10). The pest repelling apparatus includes a control unit (12), a plurality of transducers (20) operatively connectable to the control unit (12) to emit sound at an ultrasonic frequency, mounting means to mount the transducers to...

20060233050 - Gas projection device sometimes with a burst disk, producing loud sonic report and smoke plume: Gas Projection Device that can take many external forms that simulate military munitions being exploded and that contain features that enhance the sound of the explosion and the appearance of smoke and attendant percussion. Such device can be controlled by many different means including electronic remote control....

20060233051 - Method and apparatus for gathering seismic data: In the present invention, a seismic receiver contains an onboard digitizer that samples and converts a signal from detected seismic energy into the digital domain. The receiver contains an analog to digital converter, a transmission circuitry, and a link to the seismic detection circuitry. The signal from the seismic detection...

20060227656 - Ocean bottom seismic station: Methods and apparatus for cable termination and sensor integration at a sensor station within an ocean bottom seismic (OBS) cable array are disclosed. The sensor stations include a housing for various sensor components. Additionally, the sensor stations can accommodate an excess length of any data transmission members which may not...

20060227657 - Apparatus and methods for seismic streamer positioning: Systems and methods for positioning seismic streamers are disclosed that enable two or more streamers to be positioned in over/under configuration. One system comprises first and second pluralities of remotely controllable birds mounted on or inline in first and second streamers, the birds functioning to control position of the streamers...

20060227658 - Systems and methods for steering seismic arrays: Marine seismic survey systems and methods are presented. One system comprises a source array, a tow vessel, one or more source tow members, one or more deflecting members operatively connected to the source array; one or more streamers connected to the tow vessel by a corresponding number of streamer tow...

20060227659 - Method and apparatus for adaptive over/under combination of seismic data: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for wave field separation. The method includes determining a first operator using marine seismic data acquired at a first depth and receivers deployed at a second depth, determining a second operator using marine seismic data acquired at a second depth, wherein the...

20060227660 - Method and apparatus for source and receiver side wave field separation: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for wave field separation. The method includes accessing a marine seismic data set acquired by a plurality of receivers deployed at a first plurality of depths in response to a plurality of acoustic signals provided by a plurality of seismic sources deployed...

20060227661 - Systems for low frequency seismic and infrasound detection of geo-pressure transition zones: Methods for determining the existence and characteristics of a gradational pressurized zone within a subterranean formation are disclosed. One embodiment involves employing an attenuation relationship between a seismic response signal and increasing wavelet wavelength, which relationship may be used to detect a gradational pressurized zone and/or determine characteristics thereof. In...

20060227662 - Stretch free trace processing using block move sum and phase-based move out corrected data: The present invention is directed to generating moveout data for a gather with reduced or substantially eliminated stretch and with improved resolution of potentially overlapping events. In one embodiment, a zero offset trace is obtained and a phase information for the zero offset trace is substituted into phase information for...

20060227663 - Rf transmission line and drill/pipe string switching technology for down-hole telemetry: A modulated reflectance well telemetry apparatus having an electrically conductive pipe extending from above a surface to a point below the surface inside a casing. An electrical conductor is located at a position a distance from the electrically conductive pipe and extending from above the surface to a point below...

20060227664 - Method and system of providing clustered networks of bearing-measuring sensors: System and method for determining a location of a first target. The sensor network comprises a first sensor cluster comprising a first plurality of bearing measuring sensors. A first gateway is operatively coupled to the first plurality of bearing measuring sensors. A second sensor cluster comprises a second plurality of...

20060227665 - Acoustic generator for distance sounding: In the oil industry, the acoustic sounding method is a well-known technique for taking the depth measurements of particular attributes of an oil well or borehole. The method involves sending a short, sharp, clear, loud bang sound down a borehole, normally between the inside wall of the borehole casing, commonly...

20060221767 - Stretch free trace processing using block move sum and phase-based move out corrected data: A technique is provided for processing seismic data to resolve overlapping events within individual traces of a gather of traces. Each of the traces is partitioned into a plurality of overlapping time intervals. The time component of the overlapping time intervals is adjusted relative to a common midpoint. The resulting...

20060221768 - High-speed, downhole, cross well measurement system: In one aspect of the invention, a high-speed measurement system has a first and a second well bore. A first and second plurality of network nodes is integrated into and spaced at intervals along the first and second well bore, respectively. A communications channel connects each plurality of network nodes...

20060221769 - Object position estimation system, apparatus and method: The position estimation system (220, 226, 222) for estimating a position of an object (224) in a room (200) works by an ultrasound emitter (220) emitting an ultrasound pulse (201), which is reflected at least once on a reflecting object (232), after which an ultrasound receiver (226) detects an ultrasound...

20060221770 - Piezoelectric sounding body and electronic device using same: Electrode layers 22A-22C, 24A-24C are formed on both main surfaces of each of piezoelectric layers 20A, 20B. Voltages of different polarities are respectively applied to the electrode layers next to each other on the same main surface and to the electrode layers opposing to each other via the piezoelectric layer....