Patents by Inventor Yin L. Cheung

Yin L. Cheung 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).

  • Patent number: 9349212
    Abstract: System and method for analyzing and imaging three-dimensional volume data sets using a three-dimensional sampling probe. A number of sampling probes can be created, shaped, and moved interactively by the user within the whole three-dimensional volume data set. As the sampling probe changes shape, size, or location in response to user input, the image is re-drawn at a rate sufficiently fast to be perceived as real-time by the user. In this manner, the user can more easily and effectively visualize and interpret the features and physical parameters that are inherent in the three-dimensional volume data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: Landmark Graphics Corporation
    Inventors: Yin L Cheung, Michael J Zeitlin, Mark Acosta
  • Publication number: 20140160128
    Abstract: System and method for analyzing and imaging three-dimensional volume data sets using a three-dimensional sampling probe. A number of sampling probes can be created, shaped, and moved interactively by the user within the whole three-dimensional volume data set. As the sampling probe changes shape, size, or location in response to user input, the image is re-drawn at a rate sufficiently fast to be perceived as real-time by the user. In this manner, the user can more easily and effectively visualize and interpret the features and physical parameters that are inherent in the three-dimensional volume data set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2014
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Inventors: Yin L. Cheung, Michael J. Zeitlin, Mark Acosta
  • Patent number: 8686996
    Abstract: System and method for analyzing and imaging three-dimensional volume data sets using a three-dimensional sampling probe. A number of sampling probes can be created, shaped, and moved interactively by the user within the whole three-dimensional volume data set. As the sampling probe changes shape, size, or location in response to user input, the image is re-drawn at a rate sufficiently fast to be perceived as real-time by the user. In this manner, the user can more easily and effectively visualize and interpret the features and physical parameters that are inherent in the three-dimensional volume data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Landmark Graphics Corporation
    Inventors: Yin L. Cheung, Michael J. Zeitlin, Mark Acosta
  • Publication number: 20040174357
    Abstract: System and method for analyzing and imaging three-dimensional volume data sets using a three-dimensional sampling probe. A number of sampling probes can be created, shaped, and moved interactively by the user within the whole three-dimensional volume data set. As the sampling probe changes shape, size, or location in response to user input, the image is re-drawn at a rate sufficiently fast to be perceived as real-time by the user. In this manner, the user can more easily and effectively visualize and interpret the features and physical parameters that are inherent in the three-dimensional volume data set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2004
    Publication date: September 9, 2004
    Inventors: Yin L. Cheung, Michael J. Zeitlin, Mark Acosta
  • Patent number: 6765570
    Abstract: System and method for analyzing and imaging three-dimensional volume data sets using a three-dimensional sampling probe. A number of sampling probes can be created, shaped, and moved interactively by the user within the whole three-dimensional volume data set. As the sampling probe changes shape, size, or location in response to user input, the image is re-drawn at a rate sufficiently fast to be perceived as real-time by the user. In this manner, the user can more easily and effectively visualize and interpret the features and physical parameters that are inherent in the three-dimensional volume data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignee: Magic Earth, Inc.
    Inventors: Yin L. Cheung, Michael J. Zeitlin, Mark Acosta
  • Patent number: 4688418
    Abstract: A method and/or apparatus for determining the mass flow rate and the quality of steam in a flowing line. It involves directing the total flow to a liquid-vapor separator. The separated vapor and liquid have the flow of each metered and the flow of one regulated so as to hold the level of the separated liquid constant. Then, by measuring pressure and temperature of the separated flows upstream from the regulation, the mass flow rate and the quality of the steam may be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1987
    Assignee: Texaco Inc.
    Inventors: Yin L. Cheung, Alfred Brown
  • Patent number: 4561785
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for determining the quality of typical steam used in steam flooding for secondary recovery of petroleum, using a modification of the conventional throttling calorimeter based on thermodynamic properties of the steam. Automatic continuous operation with heat added thereto is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1985
    Assignee: Texaco Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen L. Long, Yin L. Cheung
  • Patent number: 4547078
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for obtaining a sample of the liquid component of steam and determining the quality of steam in a vessel or the like, such as steam flowing in a line used for steam injection in an oil well. The steam quality is determined by the known method of comparing the concentrations of dissolved solids in the liquid sample and the feedwater. A sample of the liquid phase of steam is trapped in a liquid vapor separator maintained at steam line temperature and pressure conditions. In this way errors due to condensation in the separator and its connecting lines are avoided. The sample is withdrawn from the separator into a collection chamber at a controlled rate which avoids reducing the pressure within the separator and thereby avoids the introduction of error because of erroneous concentration of dissolved solids within the separator sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1984
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1985
    Assignee: Texaco Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen L. Long, Yin L. Cheung, Alfred Brown