Vibration detecting system, signal processing apparatus and signal processing method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10281601-B2
Application number	US-201615355878-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 18, 2016
Priority date	May 27, 2014
Publication date	May 7, 2019
Grant date	May 7, 2019

Abstract

A vibration detection system includes a seismic source device that generates a vibration wave repeated with a predetermined period, a vibration receiving device that receives a response wave due to the vibration wave transmitted via the ground, and a signal processing apparatus that processes measured vibration signals received by the vibration receiving device. The signal processing apparatus includes a separating part that separates individual periodic signals having a period according to a periodicity of the vibration wave generated by the seismic source from the measured vibration signals, the calculating part that calculates the standard periodic signal from the separated individual periodic signals, and the generating part that subtracts the standard periodic signal from the measured vibration signals and generates differential signals.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vibration detection system, comprising:
a seismic source device that generates a vibration wave repeated with a prescribed period by rotating an eccentric weight, the seismic source device varying the frequency of the vibration wave to be generated within the period by changing a rotation speed of an eccentric weight;
a vibration receiving device that receives response waves due to the vibration wave transmitted via the ground; and
a signal processing apparatus that processes vibration signals according to the response waves received by the vibration receiving device, wherein the signal processing apparatus including:
a storage including a memory that stores vibration signals received by the vibration receiving device while the seismic source device is generating the vibration wave, the vibration signals containing a signal based on (i) the vibration wave and (ii) a signal based on microseism or an natural earthquake;
a separating part that separates individual periodic signals having a period according to a periodicity of the vibration wave generated by the seismic source device from the stored vibration signals;
a calculating part that calculates a standard periodic signal from the separated individual periodic signals; and
a generating part that generates differential signals indicating the difference between the vibration signals received by the vibration receiving device and the standard periodic signal, the differential signal corresponding to a signal based on the microseism or the natural earthquake.

2. The vibration detection system according to claim 1 , wherein
the calculating device calculates the standard periodic signal by averaging the plurality of individual periodic signals by using inverses of the variances of noise included in each of the individual periodic signals as weights.

3. The vibration detection system according to claim 1 , wherein
the calculating part calculates a median of the plurality of individual periodic signals as the standard periodic signal.

4. A vibration detection system, comprising:
a seismic source device that generates a vibration wave repeated with a prescribed period by rotating an eccentric weight;
a vibration receiving device that receives response waves due to the vibration wave transmitted via the ground; and
a signal processing apparatus that processes vibration signals according to the response waves received by the vibration receiving device, wherein the signal processing apparatus including:
a storage including a memory that stores vibration signals received by the vibration receiving device while the seismic source device is generating the vibration wave, the vibration signals containing a signal based on (i) the vibration wave and (ii) a signal based on microseism or an natural earthquake;
a separating part that separates individual periodic signals having a period according to a periodicity of the vibration wave generated by the seismic source device from the stored vibration signals;
a calculating part that calculates a standard periodic signal from the separated individual periodic signals; and
a generating part that generates differential signals indicating the difference between the vibration signals received by the vibration receiving device and the standard periodic signal, the differential signal corresponding to a signal based on the microseism or the natural earthquake,

wherein
the storage stores the standard periodic signal calculated by the calculating part in association with an environmental condition, and
the generating part generates the differential signals on the basis of the standard periodic signal that is associated with an environmental condition at the time when the vibration receiving device received the vibration signals.

5. A vibration detection system, comprising:
a seismic source device that generates a vibration wave repeated with a prescribed period by rotating an eccentric weight;
a vibration receiving device that receives response waves due to the vibration wave transmitted via the ground; and
a signal processing apparatus that processes vibration signals according to the response waves received by the vibration receiving device, wherein the signal processing apparatus including:
a storage including a memory that stores vibration signals received by the vibration receiving device while the seismic source device is generating the vibration wave, the vibration signals containing a signal based on (i) the vibration wave and (ii) a signal based on microseism or an natural earthquake;
a separating part that separates individual periodic signals having a period according to a periodicity of the vibration wave generated by the seismic source device from the stored vibration signals;
a calculating part that calculates a standard periodic signal from the separated individual periodic signals; and
a generating part that generates differential signals indicating the difference between the vibration signals received by the vibration receiving device and the standard periodic signal, the differential signal corresponding to a signal based on the microseism or the natural earthquake,

wherein
the seismic source device is a seismic source device that generates vibration waves including a horizontal vibration and a vertical vibration, generates the first vibration wave corresponding to the vibration signal with the first polarity in the first period, and generates the second vibration wave corresponding to the vibration signal with the second polarity that has an inverse polarity of the first polarity in the horizontal direction or the vertical direction in the second period whose length is the same as the length of the first period.

6. The vibration detection system according to claim 5 , wherein
the seismic source device generates a transitional vibration wave during a reversal period between the first period and the second period, and
the calculating part calculates a median of vibration signals due to the transitional vibration waves received by the vibration receiving device during the plurality of reversal periods as the standard periodic signal during the reversal period.

7. The vibration detection system according to claim 5 , wherein
the seismic source device generates a transitional vibration wave during a reversal period between the first period and the second period, and
the calculating part calculates the standard periodic signal on the basis of (i) the transfer function of the ground calculated in the first period or the second period and (ii) the transitional vibration waves.

8. The vibration detection system according to claim 1 , comprising:
a plurality of seismic source devices that generate the vibration waves whose frequencies are different from each other.

Assignees

• Japan Oil Gas & Metals Jogmec
• Kasahara Junzo
• Junzo KASAHARA

Inventors

• TAKANASHI Mamoru
• Kato Ayato
• Kasahara Junzo
• Hasada Yoko

Classifications

• G01V1/164

  Circuits therefore · CPC title

• G01V1/003 Primary

  Seismic data acquisition in general, e.g. survey design (G01V1/3808, G01V1/42 take precedence) · CPC title

• G01V1/284

  Application of the shear wave component and/or several components of the seismic signal · CPC title

• G01V1/288

  Event detection in seismic signals, e.g. microseismics (G01V1/36 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G01V2210/21

  Frequency-domain filtering, e.g. band pass · CPC title