Patents by Inventor Marc Paul Servais

Marc Paul Servais has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20250044468
    Abstract: Some implementations may include a method for detecting, by a learning machine, a geobody in a seismic volume. The method may include receiving a first seismic input tile representing first seismic data from the seismic volume; receiving a first guide input tile including first labels that indicate presence of the geobody in a respective region in the seismic volume or absence of the geobody in the respective region, and one or more unlabeled regions that make no indication about presence or absence of the geobody; and determining, based on the first seismic input tile and the first guide input tile, a first prediction about geobody presence or absence in the seismic volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Marc Paul Servais, Graham Baines, Daniel Thomas-Possee, Fan Jiang, Konstantin Osypov
  • Patent number: 11906683
    Abstract: A method for correlating data comprises acquiring a first sequence signal and a second sequence signal, wherein the first sequence signal comprises at least a first data point including a first set of components and the second sequence signal comprises at least a second data point including a second set of components; acquiring a first set of user picks and a second set of user picks, wherein the first and the second sets of user picks each contain a respective first and second correspondence between a component in the first set of components and a component in the second set of components; combining the first and second sets of user picks with the first and second sequence signals to create a first hyper-complex signal and a second hyper-complex signal; and performing signal alignment on the first and second hyper-complex signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Landmark Graphics Corporation
    Inventor: Marc Paul Servais
  • Publication number: 20230021210
    Abstract: A method for performing wellbore correlation across multiple wellbores includes predicting a depth alignment across the wellbores based on a geological feature of the wellbores. Predicting a depth alignment includes selecting a reference wellbore, defining a control point in a reference signal of a reference well log for the reference wellbore, and generating an input tile from the reference signal, the control points, and a number of non-reference well logs corresponding to non-reference wellbores. The well logs include changes in a geological feature over a depth of a wellbore. The input tile is input into a machine-learning model to output a corresponding control point for each non-reference well log. The corresponding control point corresponds to the control point of the reference log. Based on the corresponding control points output from the machine-learning model, the non-reference well logs are aligned with the reference well log to correlate the multiple wellbores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Marc Paul Servais, Graham Baines
  • Publication number: 20220207422
    Abstract: An apparatus for processing seismic data variables comprising a tracking module and an interpretation module. The tracking module selects groupings of subsurface data variables from the seismic data variables, selects a subsurface data variable for each grouping, and determines an isochron variable for each subsurface data variable for each grouping. Each grouping of subsurface data variables has spatial coordinates values. The interpretation module predicts a horizon variable for each grouping using the isochron variable and an algorithmic model or trained algorithmic. The interpretation module predicts a horizon variable using the isochron variable for each grouping and a trained algorithmic model. The tracking module selects the subsurface data variable for each grouping based on a peak, trough or zero-crossing identified in the grouping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Marc Paul SERVAIS, Graham BAINES, Daniel James POSSEE
  • Publication number: 20220207419
    Abstract: An apparatus for processing seismic data variables comprising a tracking module and an interpretation module. The tracking module selects groupings of subsurface data variables from the seismic data variables, selects a subsurface data variable for each grouping, and determines an isochron variable for each subsurface data variable for each grouping. Each grouping of subsurface data variables has spatial coordinates values. The interpretation module predicts a horizon variable for each grouping using the isochron variable and an algorithmic model or trained algorithmic. The interpretation module predicts a horizon variable using the isochron variable for each grouping and a trained algorithmic model. The tracking module selects the subsurface data variable for each grouping based on a peak, trough or zero-crossing identified in the grouping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Marc Paul SERVAIS, Graham BAINES, Daniel James POSSEE
  • Publication number: 20220019933
    Abstract: A heat flow modeler preprocesses geological and heat flow data for an earth formation for inputting into a plurality of supervised learning models. The heat flow modeler trains the plurality of supervised learning models on the preprocessed geological data to estimate heat flow throughout the earth formation. The heat flow modeler interpolates the estimated heat flow values to a set of desired locations in the earth formation and cosimulates the preprocessed heat flow values with the interpolated heat flow values as auxiliary variables to generate a cosimulated heat flow map. A final heat flow map is generated by rasterizing the cosimulated heat flow map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Zainab Diana Titus, Annabel Causer, Graham Baines, Christine Yallup, Olutobi Adeyemi, Marc Paul Servais
  • Patent number: 11199646
    Abstract: A method for correlating data includes acquiring a first sequence of data and a second sequence of data, wherein the first sequence of data comprises at least a first data point including a first set of signal components and the second sequence of data comprises at least a second data point including a second set of signal components, wherein the signal components in the first and second sets of signal components contain valid data, nulls, or a combination thereof; identifying one or more nulls in at least one of the first set of signal components or the second set of signal components; defining a difference between the one or more nulls and a component value as a real value; and calculating a distance between the first data point and the second data point based on the difference between the one or more nulls and the component value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Landmark Graphics Corporation
    Inventor: Marc Paul Servais
  • Publication number: 20210318462
    Abstract: A method for correlating data comprises acquiring a first sequence signal and a second sequence signal, wherein the first sequence signal comprises at least a first data point including a first set of components and the second sequence signal comprises at least a second data point including a second set of components; acquiring a first set of user picks and a second set of user picks, wherein the first and the second sets of user picks each contain a respective first and second correspondence between a component in the first set of components and a component in the second set of components; combining the first and second sets of user picks with the first and second sequence signals to create a first hyper-complex signal and a second hyper-complex signal; and performing signal alignment on the first and second hyper-complex signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventor: Marc Paul SERVAIS
  • Publication number: 20210293990
    Abstract: A method for correlating data includes acquiring a first sequence of data and a second sequence of data, wherein the first sequence of data comprises at least a first data point including a first set of signal components and the second sequence of data comprises at least a second data point including a second set of signal components, wherein the signal components in the first and second sets of signal components contain valid data, nulls, or a combination thereof; identifying one or more nulls in at least one of the first set of signal components or the second set of signal components; defining a difference between the one or more nulls and a component value as a real value; and calculating a distance between the first data point and the second data point based on the difference between the one or more nulls and the component value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventor: Marc Paul SERVAIS
  • Patent number: 8836715
    Abstract: A method of processing image data for display by a display panel of a display device. The method comprises receiving main image pixel data representing a main image and side image pixel data representing a side image, and performing a mapping of the pixel data to signals used to drive the display panel. The mapping is arranged to produce an average on-axis luminance which is dependent mainly on the main image pixel data and an average off-axis luminance which is dependent at least to some extent on the side image pixel data. A compression of the main image pixel data is performed in advance of or at least partly incorporated into the mapping, the compression being performed at least partly in dependence upon the main image pixel data and at least partly in dependence upon how the off-axis luminance varies with pixel data input to the mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Benjamin John Broughton, Andrew Kay, Marc Paul Servais, Paul Antony Gass, Masahiro Esashi, Kenji Maeda, Tatsuo Watanabe, Yuuichi Sato, Yoshimitsu Inamori, Takashi Yasumoto
  • Publication number: 20120176404
    Abstract: A method is provided of processing image data for display by a display panel of a display device. The method comprises receiving main image pixel data representing a main image and side image pixel data representing a side image, and performing a mapping of the pixel data to signals used to drive the display panel. The mapping is arranged to produce an average on-axis luminance which is dependent mainly on the main image pixel data and an average off-axis luminance which is dependent at least to some extent on the side image pixel data. A compression of the main image pixel data is performed in advance of or at least partly incorporated into the mapping, the compression being performed at least partly in dependence upon the main image pixel data and at least partly in dependence upon how the off-axis luminance varies with pixel data input to the mapping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Benjamin John Broughton, Andrew Kay, Marc Paul Servais, Paul Antony Gass, Masahiro Esashi, Kenji Maeda, Tatsuo Watanabe, Yuuichi Sato, Yoshimitsu Inamori, Takashi Yasumoto
  • Publication number: 20100177239
    Abstract: A method is provided for performing robust frame rate conversion of video data to a higher frame rate. A metric is formed (16) as a function of motion compensation error normalised by a measure of image content, such as image texture (10, 11). The metric is then compared with thresholds (17, 18) to determine whether conversion will be based on motion compensated interpolation or frame repetition. If the metric falls between thresholds, the previously selected mode may be repeated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2008
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Inventors: Marc Paul Servais, Lyndon Hill, Toshio Nomura
  • Publication number: 20100135395
    Abstract: A method of performing spatio-temporal up-scaling includes receiving an input video having a sequence of input frames, analyzing the input video to estimate motion vectors associated with the sequence of input frames, and determining corresponding motion compensation errors associated with the motion vectors. The method further includes determining an extent to which computational resources are to be respectively allocated to spatially up-scaling the sequence of input frames and temporally up-scaling the sequence of input frames, based on the estimated motion vectors and corresponding motion compensation errors. In addition, the method includes spatio-temporally up-scaling the sequence of input frames based on the determined extent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Inventors: Marc Paul Servais, Andrew Kay