US 2014/0229113 A1 · Compression of Multidimensional Sonic Data

Abstract

Compression of multidimensional sonic data is disclosed. Example methods disclosed herein to compress input multidimensional sonic data include decorrelating the input multidimensional sonic data to determine decorrelated multidimensional sonic data. In some such examples, the input multidimensional sonic data has a plurality of dimensions corresponding to a respective plurality of azimuthal directions from which the input multidimensional sonic data was obtained. In such examples, the decorrelated multidimensional sonic data is decorrelated among the plurality of dimensions of the input multidimensional sonic data. Such example methods also include processing the decorrelated multidimensional sonic data to determine compressed data representative of the input multidimensional sonic data.

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Dependent claims

A method to compress input multidimensional sonic data, the method comprising:

decorrelating, with a processor, the input multidimensional sonic data to determine decorrelated multidimensional sonic data, the input multidimensional sonic data having a plurality of dimensions corresponding to a respective plurality of azimuthal directions from which the input multidimensional sonic data was obtained, the decorrelated multidimensional sonic data being decorrelated among the plurality of dimensions of the input multidimensional sonic data;
and
processing, with the processor, the decorrelated multidimensional sonic data to determine compressed data representative of the input multidimensional sonic data.

A system to compress input multidimensional sonic data, the system comprising:

a sonic tool to obtain the input multidimensional sonic data, the sonic tool comprising:
an acoustic source;
and
a plurality of receiving stations, each receiving station to detect audio over a plurality of azimuthal directions supported by the plurality of receiving stations;
and
a sonic data compressor to:
decorrelate the input multidimensional sonic data to determine decorrelated multidimensional sonic data, the decorrelated multidimensional sonic data being decorrelated among the plurality of dimensions of the input multidimensional sonic data, each dimension of the input multidimensional sonic data corresponding to a respective different azimuthal direction supported by the plurality of receiving stations;
and
process the decorrelated multidimensional sonic data to determine compressed data representative of the input multidimensional sonic data.

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A tangible machine readable storage medium comprising machine readable instructions which, when executed, cause a machine to at least:

decorrelate input multidimensional sonic data to determine decorrelated multidimensional sonic data, the input multidimensional sonic data having a plurality of dimensions corresponding to a respective plurality of azimuthal directions from which the input multidimensional sonic data was obtained, the decorrelated multidimensional sonic data being decorrelated among the plurality of dimensions of the input multidimensional sonic data;
and
process the decorrelated multidimensional sonic data to determine compressed data representative of the input multidimensional sonic data.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Compression of Multidimensional Sonic Data

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