Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Stitching methods to enhance beamforming results
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Application No.: US15759436Application Date: 2015-10-08
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Publication No.: US10760410B2Publication Date: 2020-09-01
- Inventor: Nam Nguyen , Yi Yang Ang , Yinghui Lu , Avinash Vinayak Taware , Paris Smaragdis , David Alan Welsh , Nugroho Perhatianto
- Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US TX Houston
- Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Houston
- Agency: Gilliam IP PLLC
- International Application: PCT/US2015/054717 WO 20151008
- International Announcement: WO2017/062015 WO 20170413
- Main IPC: G01V1/46
- IPC: G01V1/46 ; G01V1/48 ; E21B47/107 ; G10K11/34 ; G01S7/52 ; G01V1/40 ; G06T3/40

Abstract:
Various apparatus or methods are arranged to operate a tool in a wellbore, where the tool has a number of acoustic sensors. Scanning images obtained by the tool sensors along the borehole can be combined to increase the contrast of leak location with respect to background noise. A sequence of beamformed images, generated from signals captured by the tool as it moves over a range of depths of the wellbore, can be acquired. Each beamformed image may overlap at least one other beamformed image of the sequence. The beamformed images can be processed and the processed beamformed images can be combined, forming a stitched image. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods operable in providing stitched images can operate in a variety of applications.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180258756A1 STITCHING METHODS TO ENHANCE BEAMFORMING RESULTS Public/Granted day:2018-09-13
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