Patents by Inventor Shin-Ju Chu Ye

Shin-Ju Chu Ye 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).

  • Automatic dip picking from wellbore azimuthal image logs
    Patent number: 9366135
    Abstract: Method for automatically determining a planar event such as a bedding plane from azimuthal wellbore log data (501). The image log may optionally first be filtered using a smoothing filter (502). Then, the image log is inputted to a gradient (first-derivative) filter (503). The image log is also used to find the optimal local sinusoidal trend (or orientation) on the image by determining the best sine wave at each depth among all azimuthal curves from the image using a minimum-variance method (504). Finally, bed boundaries are located based on highest contrast (506) calculated along the sinusoidal lines on the gradient image (505).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventor: Shin-Ju Chu Ye
  • Automatic Dip Picking From Wellbore Azimuthal Image Logs
    Publication number: 20150098627
    Abstract: Method for automatically determining a planar event such as a bedding plane from azimuthal wellbore log data (501). The image log may optionally first be filtered using a smoothing filter (502). Then, the image log is inputted to a gradient (first-derivative) filter (503). The image log is also used to find the optimal local sinusoidal trend (or orientation) on the image by determining the best sine wave at each depth among all azimuthal curves from the image using a minimum-variance method (504). Finally, bed boundaries are located based on highest contrast (506) calculated along the sinusoidal lines on the gradient image (505).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Inventor: Shin-Ju Chu Ye