Abstract: A sound recognition apparatus (100) comprises a microphone (110) for capturing a posterior sound signal; and a processing circuit comprising a processor (180). The processing circuit is configured to process the posterior sound signal to derive posterior data, generate, using the processor (180), amalgamated data from the posterior data and anterior data derived from a previously captured anterior signal, determine, by the processor (180), whether there are correlations between the amalgamated data, the posterior data, and the anterior data that indicate that the posterior data matches the anterior data by comparing the posterior data and the amalgamated data, and the anterior data and the amalgamated data, and upon the posterior data matching the anterior data, output, by the processor (180), an indication that the posterior data matches the anterior data.

Abstract: A sound recognition apparatus (100) comprises a microphone (110) for capturing a posterior sound signal; and a processing circuit comprising a processor (180). The processing circuit is configured to process the posterior sound signal to derive posterior data, generate, using the processor (180), amalgamated data from the posterior data and anterior data derived from a previously captured anterior signal, determine, by the processor (180), whether there are correlations between the amalgamated data, the posterior data, and the anterior data that indicate that the posterior data matches the anterior data by comparing the posterior data and the amalgamated data, and the anterior data and the amalgamated data, and upon the posterior data matching the anterior data, output, by the processor (180), an indication that the posterior data matches the anterior data.

Abstract: The present invention includes a method and system for heat management in an oil field, the method including the steps of, on a first time interval: determine a thermal maturity for each subsurface region associated with a pattern of oil wells in the oil field, input the thermal maturity output from step (a)(i) and determine a latent heat target and steam injection target for each subsurface region; and input the latent heat target and steam injection target output from step (a)(ii) and a subsurface region development plan and recalibrate a steam optimizer policy engine, on a second time interval: using the recalibrated steam optimizer policy engine from step (a)(iii) and operating data, determine steam injection schedules; and collect operating data; and on a third time interval: input the thermal maturity output from step (i) and perform a periodic look-back process, thereby producing deviations from latent heat targets; and input the deviations from latent heat targets from step (c)(i) and re-determine the

Abstract: A method involves identifying work elements of a work process which may be enhanced to provide a biggest impact on enhancing an overall value of the work process. The method involves identifying a plurality of work elements comprising a work process, interviewing one or more knowledgeable interviewees and determining existing states and enhanced proposed states of the plurality of work elements, visually displaying the existing and enhanced proposed states of the work elements, and estimating and visually displaying a change in value of the work process due to an enhancement of the work elements from the existing states to the enhanced proposed states.