Patents by Inventor Yinghui Lu
Yinghui Lu 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).
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Publication number: 20240032166Abstract: The present disclosure provides a full-spectrum LED color management system based on RGBWCLA seven-color integration, including an LED lamp; an aluminum substrate inside the LED lamp; a seven-color-integrated full-spectrum integrated LED light source arranged on the aluminum substrate, a lens fixed to the aluminum substrate, a color processing operation chip, a data mining extensions (DMX) communication module, a color control module, a high-precision spectral brightness detector and a color calculation software computer device. In the foregoing mode, the full-spectrum LED color management system implements the following: the seven-color lamp implements a change in simulated blackbody curve correlated color temperature (CCT) from 1,800 K to 8,000 K; the seven-color lamp implements full-spectrum output of white light, and has a color rendering index Ra of 95 or above and R9>90; and the seven-color lamp implements 240% REC.709 color gamut coverage.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2022Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Yinghui Lu, Liang Wei, Zhangjun Liu
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Patent number: 11655707Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include a method of downhole leak detection. The method of downhole leak detection includes obtaining physical signals detected by at least one physical sensor traveling along a wellbore. Additionally, the method includes detecting correlated sequences from the physical signals and constructing a covariance matrix based on the correlated sequences. The method also includes computing a spatial spectrum indicative of a location of a leak based on the covariance matrix.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2017Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventors: Yi Yang Ang, Nam Nguyen, Joni Polili Lie, Yinghui Lu
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Publication number: 20230133774Abstract: Provided is a waterproof projector. The projector comprises an upper cover, an upper housing, a cavity shell and a lower cover, the upper cover is arranged at the upper end of the cavity shell, a first sealing structure is arranged between the upper cover and the upper end of the cavity shell, the lower cover is arranged at the lower end of the cavity shell, a second sealing structure is arranged between the lower cover and the lower end of the cavity shell, a main body structure is arranged in the cavity shell, an access hole is formed in the cavity shell, an access shell is arranged at the access hole, a third sealing structure is arranged between the access shell and the cavity shell, a heat dissipation structure is arranged on the upper cover, the upper housing is arranged on the outer side of the heat dissipation structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventors: Yinghui Lu, Liang Wei
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Patent number: 11578588Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for processing broadband acoustic signals acquired by a plurality of acoustic sensors, using an array-signal-processing technique to compute fused-signal maps in the frequency domain for a plurality of frequency bins. In accordance with various embodiments, the fused-signal maps are combined across the frequency bins, with respective weightings that are based on eigenvalues of covariance matrices computed for the plurality of frequency bins. The combined maps can be used to locate an acoustic source in a wellbore.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2016Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Nam Nguyen, Yi Yang Ang, Rebecca Corina Jachmann, Yinghui Lu, Srinivasan Jagannanthan, Avinash Vinayak Taware
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Patent number: 11560788Abstract: Acoustic characterization and mapping of flow from a perforation zone of a well. As a wireline probe containing acoustic sensors moves through the well, the acoustic sensors record acoustic pressure measurements of flow for each perforation in the well casing. The acoustic data is recorded and compiled into a three-dimensional flow model showing flow of hydrocarbons within and/or out of perforation tunnels. The three-dimensional flow models generated can be combined with historical data to form four-dimensional models illustrating flow over time, and both the three and four-dimensional models can be used to determine effectiveness of perforation charges as well as future flow from the well.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2016Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventors: Darren Philip Walters, Freeman Hill, Yinghui Lu, Avinash Vinayak Taware, Srinivasan Jagannathan
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Patent number: 11402532Abstract: Disclosed are acoustic logging systems and methods that involve correlating broadband acoustic signals acquired by a plurality of acoustic sensors at multiple depths within a wellbore to compute covariance matrices and their eigenvalues in the frequency domain for a plurality of frequency bins. In accordance with various embodiments, acoustic sources are detected and located based on the eigenvalues viewed as a function of depth and frequency.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2016Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Yi Yang Ang, Yinghui Lu, Avinash Vinayak Taware, Srinivasan Jagannanthan, Nam Nguyen
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Patent number: 11208884Abstract: Disclosed are tools, systems, and methods for detecting one or more underground acoustic sources and localizing them in depth and radial distance from a wellbore, for example, for the purpose of finding underground fluid flows, such as may result from leaks in the well barriers. In various embodiments, acoustic-source detection and localization are accomplished with an array of at least three acoustic sensors disposed in the wellbore, in conjunction with array signal processing.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2016Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Yinghui Lu, Avinash Vinayak Taware, Paris Smaragdis, Nam Nguyen, David Alan Welsh, Clifford Lloyd Macklin, Daniel Viassolo
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Patent number: 11053790Abstract: Described herein are tools, systems, and methods for detecting, classifying, and/or quantifying underground fluid flows based on acoustic signals emanating therefrom, using a plurality of acoustic sensors disposed in the wellbore in conjunction with array signal processing and systematic feature-based classification and estimation methods.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2016Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Yinghui Lu, Paris Smaragdis, Avinash Vinayak Taware, Daniel Viassolo, Clifford Lloyd Macklin
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Patent number: 10900349Abstract: The subject technology relates to estimation of flow rates using acoustics in a subterranean borehole and/or formation. Other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed. The subject technology includes drilling a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation. The subject technology includes logging the wellbore using an acoustic sensing tool to obtain logged measurements, and obtaining acoustic pressure data associated with a leak source in the wellbore using the logged measurements. The subject technology also includes determining a flow rate (volumetric for fluid-based or mass for gas-based) of the leak source from the acoustic pressure data, and determining an area of the leak source from the determined flow rate. The subject technology also includes generating and providing, for display, a representation of the leak source using the flow rate and the area of the leak source.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2017Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Muralidhar Seshadri, Jonathan Ben Freund, Yinghui Lu, Srinivasan Jagannathan
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Publication number: 20200309981Abstract: Disclosed are acoustic logging systems and methods that involve correlating broadband acoustic signals acquired by a plurality of acoustic sensors at multiple depths within a wellbore to compute covariance matrices and their eigenvalues in the frequency domain for a plurality of frequency bins. In accordance with various embodiments, acoustic sources are detected and located based on the eigenvalues viewed as a function of depth and frequency.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2016Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: Yi Yang Ang, Yinghui Lu, Avinash Vinayak Taware, Srinivasan Jagannanthan, Nam Nguyen
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Publication number: 20200292728Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include a method of downhole leak detection. The method of downhole leak detection includes obtaining physical signals detected by at least one physical sensor traveling along a wellbore. Additionally, the method includes detecting correlated sequences from the physical signals and constructing a covariance matrix based on the correlated sequences. The method also includes computing a spatial spectrum indicative of a location of a leak based on the covariance matrix.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2017Publication date: September 17, 2020Inventors: Yi Yang ANG, Nam NGUYEN, Joni Polili LIE, Yinghui LU
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Patent number: 10760410Abstract: Various apparatus or methods are arranged to operate a tool in a wellbore, where the tool has a number of acoustic sensors. Scanning images obtained by the tool sensors along the borehole can be combined to increase the contrast of leak location with respect to background noise. A sequence of beamformed images, generated from signals captured by the tool as it moves over a range of depths of the wellbore, can be acquired. Each beamformed image may overlap at least one other beamformed image of the sequence. The beamformed images can be processed and the processed beamformed images can be combined, forming a stitched image. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods operable in providing stitched images can operate in a variety of applications.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2015Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Nam Nguyen, Yi Yang Ang, Yinghui Lu, Avinash Vinayak Taware, Paris Smaragdis, David Alan Welsh, Nugroho Perhatianto
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Patent number: 10598563Abstract: A method for operation of an acoustic tool, having a plurality of acoustic sensors, may include receiving acoustic waves from an acoustic source located at a depth in a borehole. A selected location (e.g., central location) of the acoustic sensor array may be positioned substantially at the depth of the acoustic source based on a symmetricity of an upper and lower section of a frequency-wavenumber (f-k) transform pattern with respect to a selected wavenumber. A radial distance from the acoustic source to the acoustic tool may be determined based on a theoretical f-k transform pattern used as a mask to filter measured data in the f-k domain.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2016Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Yinghui Lu, Chung Chang, Mark V. Collins, Srinivasan Jagannathan, Yibing Zheng, Avinash Vinayak Taware
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Publication number: 20200032644Abstract: In distributed fiber-optic sensing within a borehole, the accuracy of correlating signal channels with depth along the borehole can be improved by taking the thermo-optic effect on the group velocity of light into account. In an example application, this allows, in turn, to more accurately localize acoustic sources via distributed acoustic sensing. Additional embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2016Publication date: January 30, 2020Inventors: Hua Xia, Kristoffer Thomas Walker, David Andrew Barfoot, Yinghui Lu
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Patent number: 10502854Abstract: An example method may include selecting a proposed pulse. A minimum phase wavelet may be generated based, at least in part, on the proposed pulse. A pulse signal within a wellbore may be generated based, at least in part, on the minimum phase wavelet. An echo signal corresponding to the pulse signal from at least a portion of the wellbore may be received, wherein the echo signal is indicative of a wellbore property.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2016Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Batakrishna Mandal, Yinghui Lu
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Patent number: 10401521Abstract: The acoustic energy induced by a transmitter module of an acoustic logging tool is dependent on several factors. In some implementations, the induced acoustic energy is dependent on the electromagnetic energy input into the transmitter module, the response behavior of the transmitter module, and the operating conditions of the transmitter module. Variation in one or more of these factors can result in a corresponding variation in the induced acoustic. Thus, a desired acoustic signal can be produced by applying an appropriately selected input signal to the transmitter module, while accounting for other factors that influence the output of the transmitter module.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2014Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Yinghui Lu, Daniel Viassolo
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Patent number: 10392925Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include leak detection systems and methods of downhole leak detection. In one embodiment, the method includes obtaining physical signals measured by at least one physical sensor traveling along a wellbore. The method also includes performing a frame decomposition operation on the physical signals of a first of the at least one the physical sensor to obtain a plurality of virtual signals associated with an array of virtual sensors, each virtual sensor of the array of virtual sensors being located at a virtual distance relative to the first physical sensor, the virtual distance corresponding to a physical distance. The method further includes synchronizing the virtual signals of the array of virtual sensors. The method further includes computing a spatial spectrum indicative of a location of a leak based on the synchronized virtual signals.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2016Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Yi Yang Ang, Nam Nguyen, Joni Lie, Yinghui Lu, Avinash Vinayak Taware
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Patent number: 10365389Abstract: In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, systems and methods for taking acoustic/ultrasonic wave measurements of a wellbore using a downhole tool equipped with microelectromechanical (MEM) transducers are provided. The MEM transducers may include a plurality of MEM transmitters (e.g., MEM speakers) and a plurality of separate MEM receivers (e.g., MEM microphones). These MEM transducers may be disposed in arrays proximate an outer surface of the downhole tool to collect acoustic/ultrasonic wave measurements of the full circumference of a wellbore. Due to their small size, large numbers of MEM transducers may be distributed radially around the downhole tool. Such an arrangement of sensors may enable the downhole tool to perform measurements of the entire wellbore without the downhole tool needing to be rotated, leading to an increased signal-to-noise ratio of the measurements.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2015Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Tatiana Gilstrap, Yinghui Lu, John P. Granville, Yibing Zheng, David Alan Welsh
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Patent number: 10359525Abstract: A method including selecting a forward model based on a modeled well structure and including a single modeled acoustic source located in a modeled wellbore and a plurality of modeled acoustic sensors located in a modeled source area, simulating an acoustic signal generated by the single modeled acoustic source and received by each modeled acoustic sensor, calculating phases of the simulated acoustic signals received at each modeled acoustic sensor, obtaining with a principle of reciprocity a plurality of modeled acoustic sources in the modeled source area and a single modeled acoustic sensor in the modeled wellbore, calculating phase delays of the simulated acoustic signals between each modeled acoustic source and the single modeled acoustic sensor, detecting acoustic signals generated by a flow of fluid using acoustic sensors in a wellbore, and processing the acoustic signals using the phase delays to generate a flow likelihood map.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2016Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Srinivasan Jagannathan, Yinghui Lu, Rebecca Jachmann, Nam Nguyen, Yi Yang Ang
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Publication number: 20190218906Abstract: Acoustic characterization and mapping of flow from a perforation zone of a well. As a wireline probe containing acoustic sensors moves through the well, the acoustic sensors record acoustic pressure measurements of flow for each perforation in the well casing. The acoustic data is recorded and compiled into a three-dimensional flow model showing flow of hydrocarbons within and/or out of perforation tunnels. The three-dimensional flow models generated can be combined with historical data to form four-dimensional models illustrating flow over time, and both the three and four-dimensional models can be used to determine effectiveness of perforation charges as well as future flow from the well.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2016Publication date: July 18, 2019Applicant: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.Inventors: Darren Philip WALTERS, Freeman HILL, Yinghui LU, Avinash Vinayak TAWARE, Srinivasan JAGANNATHAN