Patents Assigned to VOCA AS
  • Method and apparatus for finding stick-up height of a pipe or finding a joint between two pipes in a drilling environment
    Patent number: 9322950
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to a method, apparatus, a computer program and computer for automated detection of pipe (2) in a drilling operation, where the method comprising: using one or a plurality of sensors (41) to obtain one ore a plurality of data sets and/or images representing the pipe area, the data sets and/or images representing 3D and/or 2D images of the drilling operation; and processing the data sets and/or images to identify the pipe in the data sets and/or images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: VOCA AS
    Inventors: David Gustavsson, Torbjørn Engedal
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FINDING STICK-UP HEIGHT OF A PIPE OR FINDING A JOINT BETWEEN TWO PIPES IN A DRILLING ENVIRONMENT
    Publication number: 20140233804
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to a method, apparatus, a computer program and computer for automated detection of pipe (2) in a drilling operation, where the method comprising: using one or a plurality of sensors (41) to obtain one ore a plurality of data sets and/or images representing the pipe area, the data sets and/or images representing 3D and/or 2D images of the drilling operation; and processing the data sets and/or images to identify the pipe in the data sets and/or images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2012
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: VOCA AS
    Inventors: David Gustavsson, Torbjørn Engedal