Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Performing remote inspection at subsea locations
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Application No.: US16334727Application Date: 2017-09-20
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Publication No.: US10764342B2Publication Date: 2020-09-01
- Inventor: Douglas Daniel , Keith Grabham
- Applicant: Subsea 7 Limited
- Applicant Address: GB Sutton
- Assignee: Subsea 7 Limited
- Current Assignee: Subsea 7 Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB Sutton
- Agency: Levy & Grandinetti
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@22eb66e0
- International Application: PCT/GB2017/052788 WO 20170920
- International Announcement: WO2018/055353 WO 20180329
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; H04B7/185 ; H04L12/26 ; H04Q9/00 ; H04B3/60

Abstract:
A method of performing remote subsea inspection includes processing mission data from a UUV at an offshore location to produce a low-resolution output and a high-resolution output, automatically and in real time. The high-resolution output is stored at the offshore location while the low-resolution output is transmitted wirelessly across a low-bandwidth communication also automatically and in real time, to be reviewed by subject-matter experts at one or more onshore or inshore locations. Selected portions of the high-resolution output can be transmitted across the communication link to the subject-matter experts on demand. Data outputs can be transmitted across the communication link at a resolution adjusted automatically in accordance with the bandwidth measured to be available on that link.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190268390A1 Performing Remote Inspection at Subsea Locations Public/Granted day:2019-08-29
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