Petroleum exploration and prediction apparatus and method
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- recording a first signal corresponding to a first wave response from a first object having a first status, providing a first record to store information corresponding to the first signal and the first status;
recording a second signal corresponding to a second wave response from a second object having a second status distinct from the first status;
providing a second record to store information corresponding to the second signal and the second status;
providing a plurality of feature operators, each feature operator thereof comprising a mathematical manipulation to operate on a time segment of interest from either the first record or the second record to provide a feature segment;
processing the first and second records using the plurality of feature operators to produce a plurality of feature segments; and
selecting at least one feature operator from the plurality of feature operators that produces at least one feature segment from the plurality of feature segments having an attribute corresponding exclusively to one of the first record and second record.
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Abstract
A signal interpretation engine apparatus and method are disclosed as including a computer programmed to run a feature expansion module, a weight table module, a consolidation module, and a map generation module. The feature expansion module contains feature operators for operating on a signal to expand the signal to form a feature map of feature segments. Each feature segment corresponds to a unique representation of the signal created by a feature operator from the signal across an epoch. An epoch corresponds to an event within a time segment. A consolidation module applies aggregators to consolidate the inner products or superposition segments into a distribution function representing an attribute over a domain reflecting a selected weight table, aggregator, and event type, corresponding to each value of the attribute.
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20 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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recording a first signal corresponding to a first wave response from a first object having a first status, providing a first record to store information corresponding to the first signal and the first status;
recording a second signal corresponding to a second wave response from a second object having a second status distinct from the first status;
providing a second record to store information corresponding to the second signal and the second status;
providing a plurality of feature operators, each feature operator thereof comprising a mathematical manipulation to operate on a time segment of interest from either the first record or the second record to provide a feature segment;
processing the first and second records using the plurality of feature operators to produce a plurality of feature segments; and
selecting at least one feature operator from the plurality of feature operators that produces at least one feature segment from the plurality of feature segments having an attribute corresponding exclusively to one of the first record and second record. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
providing a third record storing information corresponding to the third signal;
processing the third record using the at least one feature operator to provide an output; and
comparing the output to the at least one feature segment to classify the third status as one of the first status and second status.
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8. The method of claim 6, further comprising providing a signal interpretation map reflecting the at least one feature operator.
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9. The method of claim 8, wherein providing a signal interpretation map further comprises providing weights corresponding to each of the at least one feature operator.
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10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:
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recording a third signal corresponding to a wave response from a third geological formation to provide a third record; and
classifying the third geological formation as having exclusively the first status or the second status, based on application of the signal interpretation map to the third record.
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11. The method of claim 9, further comprising processing a third record using the signal interpretation map to classify the third record as corresponding to one of the first status and the second status.
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12. The method of claim 9, wherein processing further comprises collapsing each feature segment to a numerical value.
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13. The method of claim 12, wherein processing further comprises classifying each numerical value in accordance with the correspondence thereof to the first record and the second record.
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14. The method of claim 13, wherein processing further comprises comparing each numerical value corresponding to the first record against each numerical value corresponding to the second record and selecting a threshold value effective to optimally divide numerical values corresponding to the first record from numerical values corresponding to the second record.
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15. The method of claim 1, further comprising selecting a set of feature operators from the plurality of feature operators by processing the first and second records using the set of feature operator to produce the at least one feature segment having an attribute corresponding exclusively to one of the first record and second record.
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16. The method of claim 15, further comprising:
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recording a third signal corresponding to a third wave response from a third object having a third status;
providing a third record corresponding to the third signal;
processing the third record using the set of feature operators to provide an output; and
comparing the output to the at least one feature segment to classify the third status as one of the first status and second status.
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17. A method for oil exploration and prediction, the method comprising:
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recording a first signal corresponding to a first wave response from a first geological formation having a first status as an oil deposit;
providing a first record to store information corresponding to the first signal and the first status;
recording a second signal corresponding to a second wave response from a second geological formation having a second status distinct from the first status;
providing a second record to store information corresponding to the second signal and the second status;
providing a plurality of feature operators, each feature operator thereof comprising a mathematical manipulation to operate on time segments of the first record to generate a first set of feature segments and on time segments of the second record to generate a second set of feature segments; and
selecting at least one feature operator from the plurality of feature operators by processing the first and second records using the at least one feature operator to produce pattern distinctions between the first set of feature segments and the second set of feature segments. - View Dependent Claims (18)
providing a third record storing information corresponding to the third signal;
processing the third record using the at least one feature operator to provide a third set of feature segments; and
comparing the third set of feature segments to the first and second sets of feature segments to classify the third status as one of the first status and second status.
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19. A method for predicting the presence of an underground oil reserve, the method comprising
providing a signal interpretation map containing at least one feature operator comprising a mathematical manipulation operating on a time segment of wave response data from a geological formation to produce at least one first feature segment having a first attribute corresponding exclusive to a first status of the geological formation or a second attribute corresponding exclusively to a second status of the geological formation; -
recording a signal corresponding to a wave response from a test geological formation;
providing a record to store information corresponding to the signal;
processing the record with the signal interpretation map to form a plurality of second feature segments; and
comparing the plurality of second feature segments to the first and second attributes to determine the correspondence of the test geological formation to one of the first and second status. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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