Patent Document ID: 8170288
Application ID: 12454091
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A system for smoothing seismic data comprising: a processor executing predetermined structure-preserving smoothing (SPS) software to process seismic data wherein the processor: generates a plurality of smoothed data for each sub-window of the seismic data by applying smoothing in a predetermined set of different orientations of the seismic data with each orientation being 180 degree rotationally symmetric, selects, among the plurality of smoothed data, an optimal smoothed data according to a pre-selected criteria, thereby preserving structures in the seismic data, and generates a structure-preserving smoothed image based on the selected optimal smoothed data, including the preserved structures in the seismic data; and a display for displaying to a user the structure-preserving smoothed image, including the preserved structures in the seismic data.