Patents by Inventor Vincent Clochard

Vincent Clochard 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: 20240118246
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of monitoring the interior of a pipeline (1) positioned in contact with a soil (S) below a water mass (E), comprising implementation of the following steps by data processing means (11): (a) for at least one position along said pipeline (1), obtaining acoustic data descriptive of at least one cross-section of said pipeline (1) at said position, acquired by a mobile acoustic acquisition device (20) in said water mass (E), (b) estimating by quantitative migration from said acoustic data an estimated relative impedance perturbation profile in at least said cross-section of said pipeline (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventor: Vincent CLOCHARD
  • Publication number: 20230316713
    Abstract: The present invention is a method of detecting and counting a geological constituent (cge) of an acquired image of a rock sample (IER), by a location detection machine learning method (ALG).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Antoine BOUZIAT, Sylvain DESROZIERS, Mathieu FERAILLE, Vincent CLOCHARD, Youri HAMON, Jean-Claude LECOMTE, Abdoulaye KOROKO, Antoine LECHEVALLIER
  • Publication number: 20230154208
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of detecting a geological constituent (cge) of a rock sample, by use of a machine learning method (ALG) trained with a limited number of training images (IAP), through segmentation (SEG) and partitioning (DEC) of training images (IAP) into multiple patches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Sylvain DESROZIERS, Mathieu FERAILLE, Vincent CLOCHARD, Antoine BOUZIAT, Youri HAMON, Maxime MOREAUD
  • Patent number: 8793072
    Abstract: The invention is a method of monitoring an underground formation into which a gas is injected or from which a gas is produced, by a stratigraphic inversion of seismic data with anamorphosis of impedances. Pre-injection and post-injection seismic data are acquired. A pre-injection seismic impedance cube IP1 is determined by a stratigraphic inversion of the pre-injection seismic data. An anamorphosis function ? is defined by a function comprising a positive lower limit B1, an upper limit B4, an identity interval defined between limits B2 and B3, with B1<B2<B3<B4. A value for each limit B1, B2, B3 and B4 is associated with each cell of the cube. Post-injection seismic impedances IP2 are determined by a stratigraphic inversion of the post-injection seismic data wherein the anamorphosis function ? is applied to seismic impedances IP2. The gas is located within the zone by identifying the cells where IP2<IP1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: IFP Energies Nouvelles
    Inventors: Michel Leger, Vincent Clochard
  • Patent number: 8255166
    Abstract: The invention is a method of constructing an image representative of a heterogeneous medium by a procedure of joint inversion of seismic data represented on different time scales having an application for underground reservoir exploration. Sequential inversion of the seismic data is performed so as to determine a first model from the seismic data expressed in a first time scale, and a second model from the seismic data expressed in the second time scale. A scale factor t1(t0) allowing synthetic data described in a first time scale to be expressed in a second time scale is defined by a differential equation relating the traveltime variations of a seismic wave to the models resulting from the sequential inversion. Finally, joint inversion wherein a cost function using the scale factor is minimized is carried out so as to evaluate a difference between the synthetic data and the seismic data expressed in another time scale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: IFP
    Inventors: Thierry Tonellot, Marie-Lise Bernard, Vincent Clochard
  • Publication number: 20110251797
    Abstract: A method of monitoring an underground formation into which a gas is injected or from which a gas is produced, by a stratigraphic inversion of seismic data with anamorphosis of impedances. Pre-injection and post-injection seismic data are acquired. A pre-injection seismic impedance cube IP1 is determined by a stratigraphic inversion of the pre-injection seismic data. An anamorphosis function ? is defined by a function comprising a positive lower limit B1, an upper limit B4, an identity interval defined between limits B2 and B3, with B1<B2<B3<B4. A value for each limit B1, B2, B3 and B4 is associated with each cell of the cube. Post-injection seismic impedances IP2 are determined by a stratigraphic inversion of the post-injection seismic data wherein the anamorphosis function ? is applied to seismic impedances IP2. The gas is located within the zone by identifying the cells where IP2<IP1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Inventors: Michel LEGER, Vincent Clochard
  • Publication number: 20100004870
    Abstract: A method of constructing an image representative of a heterogeneous medium by a procedure of joint inversion of seismic data represented on different time scales having an application for underground reservoir exploration. Sequential inversion of the seismic data is performed so as to determine a first model from the seismic data expressed in a first time scale, and a second model from the seismic data expressed in the second time scale. A scale factor t1(t0) allowing synthetic data described in a first time scale to be expressed in a second time scale is defined by a differential equation relating the traveltime variations of a seismic wave to the models resulting from the sequential inversion. Finally, joint inversion wherein a cost function using the scale factor is minimized is carried out so as to evaluate a difference between the synthetic data and the seismic data expressed in another time scale.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2009
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Inventors: Thierry Tonellot, Marie-Lise Bernard, Vincent Clochard