Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
367068000 | Display systems | 15 |
20090290450 | HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR PROFILING SYSTEM - A head-mounted display to visualize a medium through a surface by displaying an image characterizing the medium under the surface provided by a profiling system and referenced in the real environment of the user. An image of the medium under the surface is projected in front of one or both eyes of a person wearing the head-mounted display, in superimposition with the real environment of the user. The head-mounted display comprises a positioning sensor, such as an inertial positioning sensor, for determining its position and orientation in the real environment. As the user moves around the medium, the image of the medium is updated to display the medium as if it could be seen through the surface. In one embodiment of the invention, the image of the medium under surface is displayed in stereoscopy, the user thereby visualizing the medium in three dimensions. | 11-26-2009 |
20100149918 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING GEOLOGIC STRESS INFORMATION AND ITS APPLICATION TO GEOLOGIC INTERPRETATION - A method for displaying geologic stress includes determining magnitudes and directions of principal stresses at at least one a selected location. An analog symbol is generated for each magnitude and direction of the principal stresses. The analog symbols include a magnitude descriptor and a direction descriptor. The analog symbols are stored or displayed. | 06-17-2010 |
20120281500 | INTERACTION WITH SEISMIC DATA - One or more computer-readable media including computer-executable instructions to instruct a computing device to format multidimensional data, with respect to one or more dimensions of a multidimensional coordinate system, responsive to receipt of a first linear motion signal from manipulation of an input device; format multidimensional data, with respect to one or more dimensions of a multidimensional coordinate system, responsive to receipt of a second linear motion signal from manipulation of an input device where the first linear motion and second linear motion are orthogonal motions; format multidimensional data, with respect to one or more dimensions of a multidimensional coordinate system, responsive to receipt of a first rotational motion signal from manipulation of an input device; and format multidimensional data, with respect to one or more dimensions of a multidimensional coordinate system, responsive to receipt of a second rotational motion signal from manipulation of an input device where the first rotational motion and the second rotational motion are clockwise and counter-clockwise motions. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed. | 11-08-2012 |
20140334261 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MICROSEISMIC EVENT LOCATION ERROR ANALYSIS AND DISPLAY - According certain aspects, embodiments of the invention consider the problem of microseismic event localization from a parameter estimation perspective, and include a method and system for computing and displaying characteristics of event localization errors. According to certain other aspects, embodiments of the invention include techniques for deriving aggregate statistics from a set of event location estimates, including methods for computing and displaying the probability that an event occurred in any given volume, and methods for describing and displaying the smallest volume that contains a specified percentage of the event probability or expected to contain the specified percentage of the events. | 11-13-2014 |
367070000 | Color | 3 |
20130155814 | CRITICAL REFLECTION ILLUMINATIONS ANALYSIS - The illumination/imaging of a theorized target horizon that is below a theorized velocity contrast horizon where the velocity contrast horizon may represent the bottom of a salt dome by assessing the path of seismic energy for critical angle reflection/refraction and tabulates the successful paths and unsuccessful paths. For some subsurface locations, seismic energy will not reach the surface above the velocity contrast due to the shapes of the velocity contrast horizon and target horizon and the velocity model through which the studied waves propagate. Displays may be prepared and used for understanding illumination/imaging of the geology for drilling, reacquisition, and reprocessing to elicit information about subsurface geology that may have been overlooked or ignored. Future surveys avoid expensive surveying which cannot obtain useful seismic data as determined by the velocity contrast for the target locations due to the shapes of the horizons and the velocity model. | 06-20-2013 |
20130201794 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR INTERACTIVE IDENTIFICATION OF SUBSURFACE REGIONS - A computer-implemented method, apparatus, and system for interactive identification of subsurface regions that represent lithology and/or fluid anomalies that indicate the presence of hydrocarbons may be provided. Since the introduction of AvO classes, AvO interpretation has largely been quantitatively driven through polygonal selection of non-background trend values from cross plots of seismic and/or derived seismic attributes such as intercept and slope. Embodiments of the invention may provide a system and/or method which allows qualitative and quantitative, interactive, visual observation of AvO and petrophysical classes and projections simultaneously, through, for example, co-blending based an intuitive parameterization of gradational color tables with varying opaqueness along axes representing respectively background trend and anomaly, or petrophysical variables. | 08-08-2013 |
20130235696 | INTERPRETATION AND FEATURE DETECTION IN A SEISMIC VOLUME USING BUMP MAPPING AND LIGHTING - Example embodiments of the present disclosure include one or more of a method, computing device, computer-readable medium, and system for creating a heightmap based on at least a portion of seismic data, rendering the heightmap, and illuminating at least a portion of the rendered heightmap. | 09-12-2013 |
367072000 | 3-D | 8 |
20080285384 | System and Method for Displaying Seismic Horizons with Attributes - A system and method may, based on a 3D seismic data set seed point, execute a seed picking algorithm, using the first point for picking a set of second points from the data set, setting each of the points in the set of second points as the first point and repeating the algorithm. An iteration number or other attribute may be assigned to the points, the iteration number corresponding to the number of times the algorithm repeated to process the point. The attribute or a number of attributes may be displayed as a visual characteristic for each point. An iterative process may be applied to a set of seismic data points, starting at a seed data point and finding a set of next iteration seed points from among the set of points neighboring the seed point, continuing only with next iteration seed points, and recording for each of a set of data points the number of points that are found by the process when the point is used as a seed data point. Attributes may include, for example, the total number of descendants of a seed point, the direction, for example, the azimuth, of propagation of the horizon picking process, or information that relates to the order in which points are picked such as an iteration number. | 11-20-2008 |
20100172209 | SEISMIC DATA VISUALIZATIONS - Implementations of various technologies for a method for processing seismic data. A first portion of a record of pre-stack seismic data may be displayed in a three-dimensional XYZ (3-D XYZ) space. A selection may be received of a second portion of the record of the pre-stack seismic data within the first portion. One or more attributes may be determined that define the second portion. One or more regions may be identified within the record of the pre-stack seismic data having the attributes that define the second portion. | 07-08-2010 |
20100214870 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC EXTRACTION OF EXTREMA-BASED GEOMETRIC PRIMITIVES IN 3D VOXEL VOLUMES - Methods and systems for investigating subterranean formations are disclosed. A method for extracting geological horizon on-demand from a 3D seismic data set, comprises collecting 3D seismic data and generating 3D seismic extrema cubes; obtaining a user-defined seed point in the 3D seismic data set; determining a starting extrema point for extracting the geological horizon, wherein the starting extrema point is associated with the seed point; growing an extrema patch consisting of multiple extrema points from multiple traces, wherein the growth begins from the starting extrema point; capturing statistics of the growing extrema patch; and outputting the extrema patch as the geological horizon, including spatial and attribute statistics. The geological horizon is incorporated into a collection with other geological horizons for subsequent analysis and interpretation for areal extent through combining geological horizon segments and geochronologic ordering based on positional overlapping of geological horizon segments. | 08-26-2010 |
20110199860 | Method For Imaging of Targeted Reflectors - Techniques are disclosed for performing time-lapse seismic monitor surveys with sparsely sampled monitor data sets. A more accurate 3D representation (e.g., image) of a target area (e.g., a hydrocarbon bearing subsurface reservoir) is constructed using the sparsely sampled monitor data set ( | 08-18-2011 |
20110235464 | Method of imaging the earth's subsurface during marine seismic data acquisition - Marine seismic data are acquired, using a seismic vessel. The acquired marine seismic data are transferred in near-real time to a programmable computer. The programmable computer is used to perform the following. An acoustic 3-D full-waveform inversion is applied to the transferred marine seismic data, generating a high-resolution 3-D velocity field in near-real time. The velocity field is used to apply migration to the transferred marine seismic data, generating an image of the earth's subsurface in near-real time. | 09-29-2011 |
20120014217 | System and method For Performing Time-Lapse Monitor Surverying Using Sparse Monitor Data - Techniques are disclosed for performing time-lapse monitor surveys with sparsely sampled monitor data sets. An accurate 3D representation (e.g., image) of a target area (e.g., a hydrocarbon bearing subsurface reservoir) is constructed ( | 01-19-2012 |
20120014218 | System and Method For Reconstruction of Time-Lapse Data - Techniques are disclosed for performing time-lapse monitor surveys with sparsely sampled monitor data sets ( | 01-19-2012 |
20160116619 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL ROCK PROPERTIES USING CROSS WELL SEISMIC - Various implementations directed to determining three-dimensional (3D) rock properties using cross well seismic are provided. In one implementation, a method may include receiving 3D seismic data acquired in a seismic survey of a region of interest. The method may also include receiving cross well seismic data acquired in a cross well seismic survey of the region of interest. The method may further include determining a first set of rock properties of the region of interest based on the cross well seismic data. The method may additionally include determining one or more variograms based on the first set of rock properties. The method may also include determining one or more 3D rock properties of the region of interest based on the one or more variograms and the 3D seismic data. | 04-28-2016 |